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David Mannes
David Mannes , 1866-1959, American violinist, conductor, and educator, b. New York City. Mannes was violinist in the New York Symphony Orchestra from 1891 and its concertmaster from 1898 to 1912. In 1912 he founded the Music School Settlement for Colored People and in 1916, with his wife, the Mannes... Read more |
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Disco
DISCO During the 1970s rock music dance clubs became extremely popular. Young people, wearing polyester bell-bottoms and platform shoes, lined up outside popular clubs for a chance to enter dance floors lit with bright, pulsing lights and dance to recorded music with a pounding beat. Disco was the... Read more |
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electronic music
electronic music or electro-acoustic music, term for compositions that utilize the capacities of electronic media for creating and altering sounds. Initially, a distinction must be made between the technological development of electronic instruments and the music conceived to utilize the... Read more |
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Musical Comedy
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pitch (music)
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program music
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Water Music
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Music Box
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt , 1811-86, Hungarian composer and pianist. Liszt was a revolutionary figure of romantic music and was acknowledged as the greatest pianist of his time. He made his debut at nine, going thereafter to Vienna to study with Czerny and Salieri . In Paris (1823-25) he knew all the principal... Read more |
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People and Places, 1st Add
...old violin now will be featured...new chamber music series, as...the Fine Arts Museum, where the...Conservatory of Music students, have played it. Now only Barantschik...The regular playing will be good...things Spam has a ... |
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Laura Bush Meets With Women Leaders
...three days in Paris that launched...RTL radio in Paris. The power...Brinker was playing host to Mrs...Afghan citizens now electing delegates to a grand council, or...that we value _ music, education...Before leaving ... |
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Laura Bush Meets Top Hungarian Women
...three days in Paris that launched...RTL radio in Paris. The lunch...Brinker also was playing host to Mrs...Afghan citizens now electing delegates to a grand council, or...that we value _ music, education...Before leaving ... |
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Are we having a good time? You bet. When the trip centers on the children,...
...boyfriend (now my husband...reexperience the grand sweep of the...the Uffizi, playing hangman and...the uncrowded Museum of the History...the Egouts de Paris (Paris sewers) tour...la Musique (Music ... |
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Hardcovers in Brief
...NONFICTION The Lost Museum: The Nazi...resident in Paris, Feliciano...museum in Paris, and then...France and now updated for...created "the `grand style of our...a station playing classical ... |
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THEY ALL YAWNED AT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
...national museum, a sort of house organ playing music composed...gaggle of museums, but it...Fauves, now at Los Angeles County Museum of Art...and on to Paris in the spring...editorship) is ... |
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MEADOWFAIR at the Staten Island Children's Museum marks a return to the great...
...CHILDREN'S MUSEUM MARKS A RETURN...jumping, playing, singing...Children's Museum Association...metropolitan area. Now in its ninth...plaster-of-paris will allow...include a grand medley of music, dance...12, ... |
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"Matthew Barney: the CREMASTER cycle"; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New...
...well known by now, Barney had...Cologne and Paris). That it...precise, in the grand finale (called...3, 2002. Now playing continuously...Bepler's music, few people...accessible at the Museum Ludwig in ... |
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MELODIC INVENTIVENESS; WHAT HOLIDAY SEASON WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A...
...the Harwood Museum of Art, 238...filled with music, food, art...timbre of Baroque music, including...Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, will...performed with the Grand Teton, Spoleto...Telemann's "Paris Quartet No...the cello ... |
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Move over to Detroit for music, Degas, dance
...largest fine-art museums.(PHOTO...at the decade now playing in Detroit...of 1970s pop music and some interesting...world of the Paris OpÈra ballet...public eye. Now, visitors can...fine-arts museum in the ... |