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Kiri Te Kanawa
Kiri Te Kanawa Lyric soprano Kiri Te Kanawa (born 1944) of New Zealand rose to great popularity because of the warmth and freshness of her voice and her own physical beauty, which lent a striking stage presence. Kiri Te Kanawa was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, on March 6, 1944, into a... Read more |
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa , 1944-, New Zealand opera and concert singer. Since the early 1970s she has been one of the most acclaimed and popular lyric sopranos and has appeared with London's Royal Opera, New York's Metropolitan Opera, the Munich Opera, and other major houses worldwide. Her warm voice and... Read more |
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Jim Brickman
Jim Brickman Composer, pianist For the Record… Endless Noise Selected discography Sources In an era of increasing fragmentation of musical styles and genres, New Age solo instrumentalist, Jim Brick-man’s pop savvy, which was honed and perfected from years spent writing commercial... Read more |
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hara-kiri
hara-kiri [Jap.,=belly-cutting], the traditional Japanese form of honorable suicide, also known by its Chinese equivalent, seppuku. It was practiced by the Japanese feudal warrior class in order to avoid falling into enemy hands. Around 1500, it became a privileged alternative to execution,... Read more |
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Dame Myra Hess
Dame Myra Hess 1890-1965, English pianist, studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She made her London debut in 1907 and first appeared in the United States in 1922. Her playing was acclaimed for both virtuosity and poetic sensitivity. In 1939, and during World War II, Hess organized a series of... Read more |
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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth , 1858-1944, English composer, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. Besides her many songs and chamber music she wrote operas, including The Wreckers (1906) and The Boatswain's Mate (1916), and a Mass in D (1893). In 1922 she was made Dame of the British Empire. Her... Read more |
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Follies
Follies (1971), a musical play by James Goldman (music), Stephen Sondheim (music, lyrics). [Winter Garden Theatre, 522 perf.; NYDCC Award.] With the Weismann Theatre under demolition, many of the aging performers who had played in the various editions of Weismann's Follies gather for a last,... Read more |
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Belinda Carlisle
Belinda CarlisleSinger Belinda Carlisle first gained fame as the lead singer for the Go-Go's, a hugely popular all-female group. The band's wholesome, fun image and lighthearted songs, including "We Got the Beat," "Our Lips Are Sealed," and "Head Over Heels" attracted legions of fans. But by 1985... Read more |
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Chubby Checker
Chubby Checker Singer For the Record… Selected discography Sources Deemed “one of the pop-cultural symbols of the early ’60s” by Hugh Boulware in the Chicago Tribune, Chubby Checker is practically synonymous in the minds of most music buffs with the 1960s dance craze,... Read more |
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