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Alan Clark (Keyboardist) $45.94 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alan Clark is an English musician who was the first and main keyboardist for the British rock band Dire Straits. As a young child Clark received piano lessons. Then whilst still a pupil at Chester-le-Street Grammar School he played Hammond organ in working men’s clubs. He continued his formal musical education at Durham Technical College and was offered a place at

Alan Clark (Keyboardist) $34.36 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alan Clark is an English musician who was the first and main keyboardist for the British rock band Dire Straits. As a young child Clark received piano lessons. Then whilst still a pupil at Chester-le-Street Grammar School he played Hammond organ in working men’s clubs. He continued his formal musical education at Durham Technical College and was offered a place at

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Alan Clark (Keyboardist) $45.94 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alan Clark is an English musician who was the first and main keyboardist for the British rock band Dire Straits. As a young child Clark received piano lessons. Then whilst still a pupil at Chester-le-Street Grammar School he played Hammond organ in working men’s clubs. He continued his formal musical education at Durham Technical College and was offered a place a

Art in Louisiana: Artists From Louisiana, Arts Centers in Louisiana, Monuments and Memorials in Louisiana, Outdoor Sculptures in Louisiana $20.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Artists From Louisiana, Arts Centers in Louisiana, Monuments and Memorials in Louisiana, Outdoor Sculptures in Louisiana, Willie Nelson, Kevyn Aucoin, Elenora “Rukiya” Brown, Irvan Perez, the Boy With the Leaking Boot, Lynda Benglis, Fritz Bultman, George Rodrigue, Eugene J. Martin, Clayton Colvin, Henry Casselli, Shaw Center for the Arts, John T. Scott, Earl Barthé, Michael Ray Charles, Clementine Hunter, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church (Innis, Louisiana), Ellsworth Woodward, Angela Gregory, Elemore Morgan, Jr., Ben Claassen Iii, Edward Clark, George David Coulon, Enrique Alférez, Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, Ida Kohlmeyer, Keith Sonnier. Excerpt: Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, and remains iconic, especially in American popular culture. Now in his 70s, Willie Nelson continues to tour and has performed in concerts and fundraisers with other major musicians, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Dave Matthews. He also continues to record albums prolifically in new genres that embrace reggae, blues, jazz, folk, and popular music. Nelson was born and raised in Abbott, Texas, the son of Myrle Marie (née Greenhaw) and Ira Doyle Nelson, a mechanic and pool hall owner. His grandparents William Alfred Nelson and Nancy Elizabeth Smothers gave him mail-order music lessons starting at age six. He wrote his first song when he was seven and was playing in a local band at age nine. Willie played the guitar, while his sister Bobbie played the piano. He met Bud Fletcher, a fiddler, and two siblings joined his band, Bohemian Fiddlers, while Nelson was in high school. While he was in high school he too…

Belgian Immigrants to Canada: Lara Fabian $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lara Fabian (born Lara Wilson; April 28, 1978, is an Italian-born international singer who also holds American citizenship. Multilingual, she sings in French, Italian and Spanish, English, in all of which she is fluent. She has also sung in Portuguese, and once in Hebrew on Israel’s 60th Independence Day celebrations and in German in 1988 for a version of “Croire” (ger.: “glauben” eng.: “believe”), although she speaks neither language fluently. She also speaks a little Dutch (Flemish). She has sold over 18 million records worldwide so fa. She is an colortura light-lyric soprano with five-octave range. Born to an American father and a Sicilian mother, she spent her first five years in her mother’s hometown of Catania in Sicily, learning Italian as a first language, before moving back to Brooklyn, NYC. She began singing, dancing, and taking piano lessons at a very young age and began formal music lessons at age eight. She began writing and performing her own songs during her ten years of formal study. Fabian’s songs were greatly influenced by both her classical vocal and music theory training and by contemporary artists such as Barbra Streisand and Queen. During the 1980s, Lara Fabian entered a number of European competitions and won several prizes. A consequence of winning one of these contests in 1986 was the release of her first ever single, “L’Aziza est en pleurs” / “Il y avait”. Both were written by the Belgian composer Marc Lerchs as a homage to the deceased French singer Daniel Balavoine. In 1988, the RTL TV channel in Luxembourg invited Lara to represent the country at the 33rd Eurovision Song Contest, held that year in Dublin, Ireland. The song presented to Lara was a composition made by Jacques Cardona and Alain Garciac entitled “Croi… More:

Bishops of Olomouc: Rudolf Von Habsburg-Lothringen, List of Bishops and Archbishops of Olomouc, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc $8.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Rudolf Von Habsburg-Lothringen, List of Bishops and Archbishops of Olomouc, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc, Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, El Mayor, Jan Graubner, Charles Joseph of Lorraine, Vilém Prusinovský Z Víckova, Jan Dubravius, Henry Zdík. Excerpt: Rudolf Johannes Joseph Rainier von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke and Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (8 January 1788 24 July 1831) was a Cardinal, an Archbishop of Olomouc, and a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. Born in Pisa, Italy, he was the youngest son of Emperor Leopold II and Maria Louisa of Spain. He was elected archbishop of Olomouc in 1819 and became cardinal in the same year. In 1803 or 1804, Rudolf began taking lessons in piano and composition from Ludwig van Beethoven. The two became friends, and Rudolph became a supporter and patron of Beethoven; their meetings continued until 1824. Beethoven dedicated 14 compositions to Rudolph, including the Archduke Trio, the Hammerklavier Sonata, the Emperor Concerto and the Missa Solemnis. Rudolph, in turn, dedicated one of his own compositions to Beethoven. The letters Beethoven wrote to Rudolph are today kept at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. On 24 March 1819 he was appointed, at the age of 31, Archbishop of Olomouc in the present day Czech Republic but then part of the Austrian Empire. He was made Cardinal-Priest of the titular church of S. Pietro in Montorio by Pope Pius VII on 4 June 1819. He was ordained a priest on 29 August 1819, and consecrated a bishop on 26 September. In 1823-24, he was one of the 50 composers who composed a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli for Vaterländischer Künstlerverein. In Rudolf’s case, the music was published

Blues Traveler Members: John Popper, Tad Kinchla, Ben Wilson, Brendan Hill, Bobby Sheehan, Chan Kinchla $8.96 Chapters: John Popper, Tad Kinchla, Ben Wilson, Brendan Hill, Bobby Sheehan, Chan Kinchla. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Popper (born March 29, 1967) is an American musician and songwriter. He is most famous for his role as frontman of rock band Blues Traveler performing harmonica, guitar and vocals. He is widely considered a harmonica virtuoso, and is listed by harmonica manufacturer Hohner as a “Featured Artist”, an accolade reserved for only the best and most successful harmonica players. John Popper was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His father was a Hungarian immigrant who escaped Budapest in the 1950s. Through him, Popper is related to David Popper, a nineteenth-century European cellist. Popper was raised in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. He attended Davenport Ridge School, Stamford Catholic High School (now Trinity Catholic High School) and Princeton High School (New Jersey). He took lessons on the piano, the cello, and the guitar, but none of those instruments appealed to him and he hated being forced to practice. He originally wanted to become a comedian, finding he could use humor to make friends and avoid bullies, but when he and a friend performed a routine as The Blues Brothers, he found that he enjoyed musical performance. From there, he took up the harmonica. Popper played trumpet in the Princeton High School Studio Jazz Band, and convinced the teacher to let him play harmonica instead, after an in-class solo on the song “She Blinded Me With Science”. He formed several garage bands with friends in Princeton, New Jersey, one of which evolved into Blues Traveler in 1987. After graduating from high school, the group’s members all moved to New York City, where Popper enrolled in The New School for Social Research. Popper att…More:

British Folk Guitarists: Davey Graham, John James, Steve Benbow, Peerie Willie Johnson, Bob Johnson $8.69 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: David Michael Gordon Graham, known as Davey Graham (originally Davy Graham), (26 November 194015 December 2008), was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival. He inspired many famous practitioners of the fingerstyle acoustic guitar such as Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Martin Carthy, John Martyn, Paul Simon and Jimmy Page, who based his solo “White Summer” on Graham’s “She moved thru’ the Bizarre/Blue Raga” and “Mustapha”. Graham is probably best-known for his acoustic instrumental, “Anji” and for his pioneering use of DADGAD tuning, later widely adopted by acoustic guitarists. It was not in Graham’s nature to pursue fame and fortune and he retired to relative obscurity for many years, when he engaged in charity work and teaching as well as protracted periods of drug use, before beginning to tour again in the years before his death. His childlike, almost obsessive, enthusiasm for music never left him, however, and he would gladly give a free private concert to any chance acquaintance. Graham was born in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England, to a Guyanese mother and a Scottish father. Although he never had any music theory lessons he learnt to play the piano and harmonica as a child and then took up the classical guitar at the age of 12. As a teenager he was strongly influenced by the folk guitar player Steve Benbow, who had travelled widely with the army and played a guitar style influenced by Moroccan music. At the age of 19 Graham wrote what is probably his most famous composition, the acoustic guitar solo “Angie” (sometimes spelled “Anji”: see below). His biographer Colin Harper credits Graham with single-handledly inventing the concept of the folk guitar instrumental (while acknowledging th… More:

Canadian Harpists $11.93 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC (born January 28, 1968)) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, since of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan’s best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards (out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians. The Lilith Fair concert tours took place from 1997 to 1999, and will resume beginning in the summer of 2010. Sarah McLachlan was born on January 28, 1968), and adopted in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a child, she took voice lessons, along with studies in classical piano and guitar. When she was 17 years old and still a student at Queen Elizabeth High School, she fronted a short-lived rock band called The October Game. One of the band’s songs, “Grind”, credited as a group composition, can be found on the independent Flamingo Records release Out of the Fog and the CD Out of the Fog Too. It has yet to be released elsewhere. Her high school yearbook predicted that she was “destined to become a famous rock star.” Following The October Game’s first concert at Dalhousie University opening for Moev, McLachlan was offered a recording contract with Vancouver-based independent record label Nettwerk by Moev’s Mark Jowett. McLachlan’s parents insisted she finish high school and complete one year of studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design before moving to Vancouver and embarking on a new life as a recording artist, and McLachlan finally signed to Nettwerk two years later before having written a single song. In 1994 McLachlan became the target of a lawsuit, when she was sued by Uw… More:

Catalan Musicians by Instrument: Catalan Pianists, Isaac Alb niz, Alicia de Larrocha, Enrique Granados, Josep Colom $8.69 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Isaac Albéniz y Pascual (Spanish pronunciation: ) (29 May 1860, Camprodon 18 May 1909, Cambo-les-Bains ) was a Spanish pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms (many of which have been transcribed by others for guitar). Albéniz with his daughter, LauraBorn in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz (a customs official) and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four. At age seven, after apparently taking lessons from Antoine Marmontel, he passed the entrance examination for piano at the Paris Conservatoire, but he was refused admission because he was believed to be too young. His concert career began at the young age of nine when his father toured both Isaac and his sister, Clementina, throughout northern Spain. By the time he had reached 12, he had made many attempts to run away from home. At the age of 12 he stowed away in a ship bound for Buenos Aires. He then made his way via Cuba to the United States, giving concerts in New York and San Francisco and then travelled to Liverpool, London and Leipzig. By age 15, he had already given concerts worldwide. After a short stay at the Leipzig Conservatory, in 1876 he went to study in Brussels. In 1880, he went to Budapest to study with Franz Liszt, only to find out that Liszt was in Weimar, Germany. In 1883, he met the teacher and composer Felip Pedrell, who inspired him to write Spanish music such as the Chants d’Espagne. The first movement (Prelude) of that suite, later retitled after the composer’s death as Asturias (Leyenda), is probably most famous today as part of the classical guitar repertoire, even though it was originally composed for piano and only later transcribed. (Many of

Classic Jazz Musicians by Instrument: Classic Jazz Clarinetists, Classic Jazz Cornetists, Classic Jazz Drummers, Classic Jazz Pianists $23.28 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Classic Jazz Clarinetists, Classic Jazz Cornetists, Classic Jazz Drummers, Classic Jazz Pianists, Classic Jazz Saxophonists, Classic Jazz Trumpeters, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, Tommy Ladnier, Wilbur Sweatman, Jimmie Noone, Bunk Johnson, Earl Hines, Graeme Bell, Adrian Rollini, Pee Wee Russell, Dick Hyman, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Mezz Mezzrow, Papa Celestin, Alphonse Picou, Hal Kemp, Lovie Austin, Fess Williams, Luis Russell, Ziggy Elman, Buddy Tate, Alcide Nunez, Mike Nock, Luckey Roberts, Butch Thompson, Bill Coleman, Ernie Royal, Charley Straight, Frank Teschemacher, Don Murray, Dink Johnson, Wally Fawkes, Thomas Morris, Wolfgang Dauner, Benny Waters, Sylvester Ahola, Lorenzo Tio, Phil Napoleon, Frank Signorelli, Johnny Dunn, Dan Levinson, Burgess Gardner, Guy Kelly. Excerpt: Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl “Fatha” Hines, (December 28, 1903 April 22, 1983) was “one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz”. Earl Hines was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Duquesne, Pennsylvania. His father was a cornetist and leader of Pittsburgh’s Eureka Brass Band, his stepmother a church organist. Hines at first intended to follow his father’s example and play cornet but “blowing” hurt him behind the ears while the piano didn’t. He took classical piano lessons and played organ in his local Baptist church but also developed an ear for popular show tunes and was able to remember and play songs he heard in theaters. Hines claimed that he was playing piano around Pittsburgh “before the word ‘jazz’ was even invented”. At the age of 17, Hines moved away from home to take a job playing with Lois Deppe

Classic Jazz Saxophonists: Johnny Dodds, Wilbur Sweatman, Adrian Rollini, Mezz Mezzrow, Hal Kemp, Buddy Tate, Don Murray, Benny Waters $9.62 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Johnny Dodds, Wilbur Sweatman, Adrian Rollini, Mezz Mezzrow, Hal Kemp, Buddy Tate, Don Murray, Benny Waters, Dan Levinson. Excerpt: Adrian Francis Rollini (June 28, 1903 – May 15, 1956) was a multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music. He played the bass saxophone, piano, xylophone, and many other instruments. Rollini is also known for introducing the goofus in jazz music. His major recordings included “You’ve Got Everything” (1933) on Banner, “A Thousand Good Nights” (1934) on Vocalion, “Davenport Blues” (1934) on Decca, “Nothing But Notes”, “Tap Room Swing”, “Jitters”, “Riverboat Shuffle” (1934) on Decca, and “Small Fry” (1938) on CBS. Rollini was born June 28, 1903 to Ferdinand Rollini and Adele Augenti Rollini. (Some sources will date 1904, but his brother Arthur, as well as social security records will attest to the earlier date.) He was born in New York and was the eldest of several children. Arthur played tenor saxophone with Benny Goodman from 1934 to 1939, and later with Will Bradley). Growing up in Larchmont, New York, he showed musical ability early on, and began to take piano lessons on a miniature piano, at the age of two. At the age of four, he played a fifteen minute recital at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Among the selections played were Chopin’s Minute Waltz- he was hailed as a child prodigy and was billed as “Professor Adrian Rollini.” Rollini continued with music and by age 14 he was leading his own group composed of neighborhood boys, in which he doubled on piano and xylophone. His interest in music was far greater than his interest in school, and Rollini left high school in his third year. Adrian also cut several piano rolls for the Aeolian company on their Mel-O-Dee label, and the Republic brand in Philadelphia … More:

Cuban Jazz Pianists: La Palabra, Roberto Fonseca, Roberto Carcass s, Bebo Vald s, Anselmo Sacasas, Chucho Vald s, Gonzalo Rubalcaba $8.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: La Palabra (born Rodolfo M. Foster in Caimanera, Cuba) is a well respected bandleader, singer-songwriter, pianist, record producer, and arranger, known for his versatile approach to music, particularly his invention of the Salsa romantica Latin music genre and his signature style of Afro-Cuban-influenced, sensual Latin jazz. La Palabra was born and raised in the small coastal town of Caimanera, Cuba. He loved music from an early age and grew up listening to Cuban artists like Orquesta Aragón, Estrellas Cubanas Orquesta, Pello el Afrokan (Pedro Izquierdo), Tataguini, and Chapotin. He was exposed to all genres of Cuban music — charanga, son, danzón, cha cha chá, bolero, bolero-cha, rumba, sipisón, el mozambique, paca, joropo, changui, mozan-cha, guaguanco, and early Afro-Cuban jazz precursors to salsa. At the age of 11, La Palabra began taking piano lessons from his grandmother and, inspired by Neno Gonzalez’s song “El Café,” was soon writing his own arrangements. After winning an amateur musical competition judged by representatives from the Department of Education, he was invited to attend a state-controlled school of music in Havana. La Palabra’s grandmother turned down the opportunity down out of fear that La Palabra would be unable to leave Fidel Castro’s post-revolutionary Cuba if he became a student at the state music conservatory. The almost constant flow of music, musicians, and tourists to and from the U.S. and Cuba that had taken place since the 1930s and 1940s was quickly halted. A few years later La Palabra’s family successfully obtained their official visas to leave Cuba. He moved to New York City with his sister, aunt, and uncle in 1966. In New York La Palabra entered the music scene by joining the sextet Lalo y La New

Czech Jazz Singers: Eva Olmerov , Vlasta Pr chov , Ji litr, Ji Jel nek, Ond ej Havelka $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Eva Olmerová (21 January 1934, Prague 10 August 1993, Prague) was a Czech pop and jazz singer. She is regarded as one of the greatest Czech jazz singers of all time. Eva Olmerová was born in Prague in 1934. She started piano lessons at the age of 6, as a pupil of Aurelie Káanová-Bubnová. After World War II her grandparents returned from London, where her grandfather had worked with Edvard Bene, president of the exiled Czechoslovak government. Her parents divorced in 1948, when she was fourteen. She remained with her father. At his cottage in Tebín u tchovic she had first-hand experience of the tramping movement and began to sing folk songs with guitar accompaniment. In the early 1950s she became involved in Prague’s jazz scene and performed with the Arnot Kavka Band. In 1951 she was arrested by the Czechoslovak state security service, in connection with her grandfather’s political activities and her uncle Otmar Kuera’s wartime service as Commander of 313 Squadron RAF. At the police station she was forced to undress, then interrogated. She was seventeen. Later, in 1958, she attacked and slapped a policeman and was jailed for fourteen months. In 1952 she married for the first time but was soon divorced. For a while she earned a living as a professional singer in the bars of Prague. In 1962 the composer Karel Mare offered her an engagement with the Semafor Theatre. Olmerová agreed, but this promising start was sabotaged when her “criminal past” was revealed in anonymous letters. Her performance of the Mare song Jsi jako dlouhý most (You’re Like A Bridge So Long) won her the Czechoslovak song competition Hledáme písniku pro vední den (In search of a song for the weekday). She was otherwise banned from

Dutch Jurists: Barend Biesheuvel, Dries Van Agt, Edward Brongersma, Rob Du Bois, Jan-Baptist Verlooy, Job Cohen, Ernst Hirsch Ballin $24.49 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Barend Biesheuvel, Dries Van Agt, Edward Brongersma, Rob Du Bois, Jan-Baptist Verlooy, Job Cohen, Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Rombout Hogerbeets, Ivo Opstelten, Robert Van Genechten, Pieter Kooijmans, Christianus Petrus Eliza Robidé Van Der Aa, Victor Marijnen, Jan Frans Vonck, Dirk Graswinckel, Joos de Damhouder, Pieter Paulus, Henry G. Schermers, Gaius de Gaay Fortman, Eduard Meijers, Dirk Van Hogendorp, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Jan Vranken, Theo Van Boven, Cornelius Van Bynkershoek, Pim Van Boetzelaer Van Oosterhout, Petrus Van Der Aa, Hendrik Constantijn Cras, Cornelis Felix Van Maanen, Nicolaas Everaerts, André Donner, Cornelis Van Eck, Honius, Gerhard Diephuis, Herman Van Roijen, Henrik Brenkman, Lodewijk Cornelis Josephus Andreas Van Meeuwen, Pieter Godfried Maria Van Meeuwen, Pieter Maria Frans Van Meeuwen, Pieter Leon Van Meeuwen, Cornelis Willem Opzoomer, Piet Boukema, Friso de Zeeuw, Elise Boot. Excerpt: Rob du Bois (born 28 May 1934) is a Dutch composer, pianist, and jurist. Rob (Robert Louis) du Bois was born in Amsterdam. His French ancestry can be seen from his name, and he maintains a sympathy for the French mentality and language (Vetter 1966). After graduating from the Vossius Gymnasium in Amsterdam he studied law at the Gemeentelijke Universiteit in the same city. He began studying music with Chris Rabé at the Volksmuziekschool, later taking piano lessons, initially with Hans Sachs, and later with T. Hart Nibbrigde Graeff. He decided to become a composer after hearing two symphonies by Matthijs Vermeulen in 1949. As a composer he is self-taught, with influences especially from his contact during the 1950s with the composers Kees van Baaren and Daniel Ruyneman (Anon. 1999; Ramaer 2001a). In 1959, Bois be… More:

Elizabeth Maconchy $38.67 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy Le Fanu DBE (19 March 1907, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire – 11 November 1994) was an English composer, most noted for her cycle of thirteen string quartets. Maconchy began to compose at the age of six. After the First World War, her family moved to Ireland. Here she took piano lessons, but was advised by her teacher to study at the Royal

Elizabeth Maconchy $38.67 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy Le Fanu DBE (19 March 1907, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire – 11 November 1994) was an English composer, most noted for her cycle of thirteen string quartets. Maconchy began to compose at the age of six. After the First World War, her family moved to Ireland. Here she took piano lessons, but was advised by her teacher to study at the Roya

Elizabeth Maconchy $51.98 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy Le Fanu DBE (19 March 1907, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire – 11 November 1994) was an English composer, most noted for her cycle of thirteen string quartets. Maconchy began to compose at the age of six. After the First World War, her family moved to Ireland. Here she took piano lessons, but was advised by her teacher to study at the Royal

Elizabeth Maconchy $51.98 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy Le Fanu DBE (19 March 1907, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire – 11 November 1994) was an English composer, most noted for her cycle of thirteen string quartets. Maconchy began to compose at the age of six. After the First World War, her family moved to Ireland. Here she took piano lessons, but was advised by her teacher to study at the Roya

Evelyn Simpson Curenton $35.68 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Evelyn Simpson Curenton (born 1953) is a leading African-American composer, pianist, organist, and vocalist. Simpson Curenton began piano lessons at age 5, began to perform with the Singing Simpsons of Philadelphia, a family group, and earned a B.M., Music Education and Voice from Temple University. She has been commissioned to write works for the American Guild o

Evelyn Simpson Curenton $47.98 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Evelyn Simpson Curenton (born 1953) is a leading African-American composer, pianist, organist, and vocalist. Simpson Curenton began piano lessons at age 5, began to perform with the Singing Simpsons of Philadelphia, a family group, and earned a B.M., Music Education and Voice from Temple University. She has been commissioned to write works for the American Guild o

Free Improvisation Pianists $10.55 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sun Ra, Wilhelm Schröter, Matthew Shipp, Misha Mengelberg, Irène Schweizer, Slawek Jaskulke. Excerpt: Irène Schweizer Irène Schweizer is a notable Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist . She was born in Schaffhausen , in 1941. She has performed and recorded numerous solo piano performances as well as performing as part of the Feminist Improvising Group , whose members include Lindsay Cooper , Maggie Nichols , Georgie Born and Sally Potter . She has also performed a series of duos with drummers Pierre Favre , Louis Moholo , Andrew Cyrille , Günter Sommer , Han Bennink , Hamid Drake , as well as in trio and quartet sessions with others, including John Tchicai , Evan Parker or Peter Kowald . With Yusef Lateef , Uli Trepte and Mani Neumeier she performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967 .One of her most enduring collaborations is with the improvising musician Rüdiger Carl. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Matthew Shipp Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American pianist , composer and bandleader. Shipp was raised in Wilmington, Delaware , and began playing piano at six years old. His mother was friend of trumpeter Clifford Brown . He was strongly attracted to jazz, but also played in rock groups while in high school. Shipp attended the University of Delaware for one year, then the New England Conservatory of Music , where he studied with saxophonist/composer Joe Maneri . He has cited private lessons with Dennis Sandole (who also taught saxophonist John Coltrane ) as being crucial to his development. Shipp has been very active since the early 1990s, appearing on dozens of albums as a leader, sideman or producer. He was initially most active in free jazz , but has since branched out, notably

German Cellists: Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, Hans Christian, Michael Sanderling, Friedrich Koch, Karl Schr der Ii, Leopold Gr tzmacher, Alexander Uber $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, Hans Christian, Michael Sanderling, Friedrich Koch, Karl Schröder Ii, Leopold Grützmacher, Alexander Uber, Philipp Roth. Excerpt: Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Fitzenhagen (Sept. 15, 1848 Feb. 14, 1890), was a German cellist, composer and instructor, best known today as the dedicatee of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme. Fitzenhagen was born in Seesen in the Duchy of Brunswick, where his father served as music director. Beginning at age five, he received lessons on the piano, the cello and the violin. Many times, he had to substitute for wind players absent due to various emergencies. At 14, Fitzenhagen began advanced study of the cello with Theodore Müller. Three years later Fitzenhagen played for the Duke of Brunswick, who released him from all military service. In 1867 some noble patrons enabled him to study for a year with Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden, A year later he was appointed to the Dresden Hofkapelle, where he started his career as soloist. Fitzenhagen’s playing at the 1870 Beethoven Festival in Weimar attracted the attention of Franz Liszt, who had formerly served as music director there. Liszt attempted to talk Fitzenhagen into joining the court orchestra. Fitzenhagen, however, had already accepted a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory. Fitzenhagen became regarded as the premiere cello instructor in Russia and equally well-known as a soloist and chamber music performer. He was appointed solo cellist to the Russian Musical Society and director of the Moscow Music and Orchestral Union. It was through this union that he made many concert appearances as a soloist. He formed a friendship with Tchaikovsky, giving the first performances of all three of that composer’s string quartets as we…

Gertrude Van Den Bergh $31.14 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gertrude van den Bergh (c. 21 Jan 1793, d. 10 Sept 1840) was a Netherlands pianist and composer. Gertrude van den Bergh was baptized in Cologne, the eldest daughter of Dutch farmer Henderik van den Bergh and German Maria Theresia Leydel. Van den Bergh showed talent for music at an early age, took piano lessons at six and published a harpsichord sonata at the age

Gertrude Van Den Bergh $40.98 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gertrude van den Bergh (c. 21 Jan 1793, d. 10 Sept 1840) was a Netherlands pianist and composer. Gertrude van den Bergh was baptized in Cologne, the eldest daughter of Dutch farmer Henderik van den Bergh and German Maria Theresia Leydel. Van den Bergh showed talent for music at an early age, took piano lessons at six and published a harpsichord sonata at the age

Greek Sopranos $10.46 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Maria Callas, Mando. Excerpt: Mando Mando (Greek : ), born Adamantia Stamatopoulou (Greek : ), is a popular Greek singer . She was born in Piraeus on April 13 and raised in Athens by her jazz pianist father, Nikos Stamatopoulos and a classic soprano opera mother Mary Apergi. From a young age she began to develop her talent and interest in music, and was characterized as a “born musician “. Early life At the age of four Mando could easily sing operatic arias, gospel and jazz music. Her parents, astonished by her musical capability, signed her with the National Conservatory for piano and music theory lessons. Meanwhile, she took up vocal training and dance lessons. At the age of ten, Mando began to teach herself how to play the guitar and various percussion instruments. Her dedication and passion quickly led her to compose her own melodies. At the age of 14 along with her school work, her music, and her English and French lessons, she performed in the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar”, under the direction of Mimis Plessas and Dimitris Malavetas. She has sung for various orchestras and as a member of various jazz groups and trios, working with music in all its textures: jazz, Greek, European, American, Arabic. She has sung and composed all types of music. Personal life Mando has two children, a boy and a girl and her sister, Chriso Stamatopoulou, was a contestant on the “Super Idol” reality television show. Professional career 1985 2002 After the completion of her music studies and at the age of 18 she signed her first record contract with CBS, which gave her the international hit “Fill me up” and offered her the chance of an international career at a very young age. Mando remained in America for five years where she took up vocal training with Hal Sheaffer

Halo Music: Martin O’donnell $9.8 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Martin “Marty” O’Donnell (born May 1, 1955) is an award-winning American composer known for his work on video game developer Bungie’s series, such as Myth, Oni, and most predominately Halo. O’Donnell collaborates with his musical colleague Michael Salvatori for many of the scores; he has also directed voice talent and sound design for the Halo trilogy, and is currently Bungie’s Audio Lead. O’Donnell began his music career writing television and radio jingles as well as scoring for radio and film. O’Donnell moved to composing video game music when his company, TotalAudio, did the sound design for the 1997 title Riven. After producing the music for Myth II, Bungie contracted O’Donnell to work on their other projects, including Oni and the code-named project that would become Halo: Combat Evolved. O’Donnell ended up joining the Bungie staff only ten days before the studio was bought by Microsoft, and has been the audio director for all Bungie projects since. O’Donnell’s score to the Halo trilogy has been called iconic, and the commercial soundtrack release of the music to Halo 2 became the best-selling video game soundtrack of all time. His most recently released work is the music for Halo 3: ODST, a departure from his previous work for the series. The two-disc soundtrack was released September 22, 2009. O’Donnell described his upbringing as “typical”; he received piano lessons and wanted to start a rock band when he reached junior high school. His father made films while his mother taught piano. Despite his interest in progressive and fusion rock, O’Donnell studied the classical component of music and composition at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music and received his Masters of Music Degree in composition with honors from the University of … More:

Harmonica Players by Genre: Blues Harmonica Players, Jazz Harmonica Players, Rock Harmonica Players, John Sebastian, John Popper $21.24 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Blues Harmonica Players, Jazz Harmonica Players, Rock Harmonica Players, John Sebastian, John Popper, Back Alley John, Stan Ridgway, Lee Oskar, John Witmer, Muntu Valdo, Toots Thielemans, Paulo Miklos, Paul Jones, Matthew Kelly, King Biscuit Boy, Cyril Davies, Paul Lamb, Alan Glen, Mark Feltham, Howard Levy, Carlos Del Junco, Don Baker, Max Geldray, Chuck Jackson, Paul Reddick, Sebastien Charlier, Michael Pickett, Jean-Jacques Milteau, Mark Cole, Billy Mcguinness, Flávio Guimarães, Olivier Ker Ourio. Excerpt: John Popper (born March 29, 1967) is an American musician and songwriter. He is most famous for his role as frontman of rock band Blues Traveler performing harmonica, guitar and vocals. He is widely considered a harmonica virtuoso, and is listed by harmonica manufacturer Hohner as a “Featured Artist”, an accolade reserved for only the best and most successful harmonica players. John Popper was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His father was a Hungarian immigrant who escaped Budapest in the 1950s. Through him, Popper is related to David Popper, a nineteenth-century European cellist. Popper was raised in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. He attended Davenport Ridge School, Stamford Catholic High School (now Trinity Catholic High School) and Princeton High School (New Jersey). He took lessons on the piano, the cello, and the guitar, but none of those instruments appealed to him and he hated being forced to practice. He originally wanted to become a comedian, finding he could use humor to make friends and avoid bullies, but when he and a friend performed a routine as The Blues Brothers, he found that he enjoyed musical performance. From there, he took up the harmonica. Popper played trumpet in the Princeton High School Studio Jazz Band, and co… More: