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Lowell Mason
Lowell Mason 1792-1872, American composer and music educator, b. Medfield, Mass. While working as a bank clerk in Savannah, Ga., he helped compile an anthology that was published as The Boston Handel and Haydn Society's Collection of Church Music (1822). He went to Boston to direct the music in... Read more |
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music For information on types of music see such articles as absolute music ; aleatory music ; chamber music ; church music ; computer music ; electronic music ; jazz ; program music ; rock music ; serial music ; and spiritual . In addition, see entries on the music of various nations... Read more |
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Oscar George Theodore Sonneck
Oscar George Theodore Sonneck , 1873-1928, American musicologist, b. Jersey City, N.J., educated in Germany. As chief (1902-17) of the music division of the Library of Congress, he developed one of the outstanding music libraries of the world. He edited the Musical Quarterly from its founding in... Read more |
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Pinchas Zukerman
Pinchas Zukerman 1948-, Israeli violinist and conductor, b. Tel Aviv. A violin protégé of Isaac Stern , he came to the United States in 1962 and made his New York City debut the following year. Zukerman is particularly noted as a chamber music performer. He was musical director of... Read more |
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concert
concert in music, public performance of a group of musical compositions. Originally the word referred simply to a group of musicians playing together; concerts by a solo performer are properly called recitals. The earliest recorded public concerts were organized by a London violinist, John... Read more |
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Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson 1896-1989, American composer, critic, and organist, b. Kansas City, Mo. Thomson studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger . Until about 1926 he wrote in a dissonant, neoclassic style, but after his 16-minute quintet Sonata da chiesa (1926) he began to employ a highly simplified style... Read more |
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Vincent Persichetti
Vincent Persichetti 1915-87, American composer, b. Philadelphia. Persichetti taught at the Philadelphia Conservatory and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. His music is notable for polytonal combinations, contrapuntal density, and incisive rhythm. He wrote nine symphonies, numerous... Read more |
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Franz Xaver Scharwenka
Franz Xaver Scharwenka , 1850-1924, Polish-German pianist and composer. He founded his own conservatories in Berlin (1881) and New York City (1891). Beginning in 1874 he toured in Europe and the United States. Of his compositions, only a few piano pieces are still popular. His brother Ludwig... Read more |
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Musical Comedy
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Bernstein, Leonard
...Walter. Cond. NY City Center Orch., 1945–8, presenting...laureate conductor for life’ of NYPO. Bernstein...4), won 1944 NY Music Critics’ Award and...Shostakovich, and his own music. Brilliant pianist...include The Joy of Music (1959), The ... |
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Reich, Steve (Stephen) (Michael)
...1981), vv., chamber orch. (1982); The Desert Music, 27 amp. vv., orch...perf. separately); Music for Pieces of Wood...Six Pianos (1973); Music for Mallet Instruments...Pianos) (1986); City Life, 17 players (1995... |
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Boulez, Pierre
...Amer. and European cities during next 10...connection with Paris life as a protest over a...of 20th-cent. music, especially Schoenberg...comps.:INCIDENTAL MUSIC: L'Orestie (Aeschylus...instr. soloists, chamber ens., computers, live...ten., ... |
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Korngold, Erich (Wolfgang)
...Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) had simultaneous premières...1910), No.3 (1931).CHAMBER MUSIC: str. qts., No.1 in...quintet; str. sextet.FILM MUSIC: Give Us This Night...Sea Hawk, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex... |
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Weill, Kurt (Julian)
...Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, a satire on Amer. life. His outstanding...in NY. Weill's music, like Coward's...Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufsteig und...org. (1946).CHAMBER MUSIC: str. qt. in B... |
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Elgar, (Sir) Edward (William)
...in several local orchs. or chamber groups and became cond. of several...Olaf (1896), The Light of Life (1896), and Scenes from...for str., the choral ode The Music Makers, and the symphonic study...times in just over a year in cities as far apart as ... |
 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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CHAMBER MUSIC CINCINNATI HIRES DIRECTOR.(Living)
...Byline: Post staff report Chamber Music Cincinnati (formerly Cincinnati Chamber Music Society) has broken...a new logo. Chamber Music Cincinnati also will...element to the cultural life of the ... |
 "San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, CA)")
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Chamber music series will bow in
...All necessities of life for Mark Braunstein...says, is teaching music to his students...newly formed Redlands Chamber Music Society. "With...presenting great music to local audiences...Orchestra, Kansas City Philharmonic ... |
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Chamber music back in Michigan City
...workshop at Michigan City Public Library...compose and make music. 9 p.m. -- Cabaret...food, drink and music. Friday 7:30 p...inspired by the lives and adventures of...Afternoon of Chamber Music at First Presbyterian... |
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Sandwiching In Some Chamber Music
...the flavor of chamber music at its best. Chamber music is called "Hausmusik...but it began as music composed for amateurs...Washington's musical life is richest-curiously for a city supposedly so ... |
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA MAIA QUARTET RECEIVES $10,000 GRANT FROM CHAMBER MUSIC...
...Thomas; and in New York City at the 92nd St. Y. Chamber Music America, the national...organization for the ensemble music profession, was founded...ensure that chamber music, in its broadest sense...vital part of American ... |
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FROM A FAMILY FRIEND, HELP FOR CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY
...season, the Buffalo Chamber Music Society suddenly...Buffalo area chamber music devotees since 1955...The Buffalo Chamber Music Society traces its...was the best most cities could expect. Because...withdraw ... |
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CHAMBER MUSIC SET FREE OF CITY LIMITS
...t have over the city, she added, were...anything was play chamber music," said Benotti...is "a treat." Music at Eden's Edge...contemporaries. And Music at Eden's Edge...students to classical music and instruments. Benotti, ... |
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Wigmore Hall, bastion of chamber music, opens doors to Amjad Ali Khan
...which specialises in chamber music, will take...receive honors late in life. Musicians must...Indian classical music, Khan has taught music in universities...to the rhythm of music is in the womb...recently performed in ... |
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Chamber music theatrical celebrates Latino heroines
Mention "chamber music" and some theater...world today, chamber music has been busy "re...Fla. "Actually a music critic coined a term...translates as "Three Lives," examines the lives...Parola, a New York ... |
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Chamber music in a Damascene setting.
...stage a classical chamber-music concert with Syrian...classical chamber-music concert with Syrian...workshops for the Syrian music students, in which...Church in the old city close to Bab Sharki...celebrating the wonders of ... |
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