Looking For Music From Classical Composers ? oscar levant (1906 1972) oscar levant oscar levant plays levant Gershwin oscar levant was a pianist, actor and composer. Knowing http://www.classical-music-tribute.com/classical-composer-music.html
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Extractions: 1) If you're considering this you should know that its recording quality is very, very poor. Understandable given the circumstances, but worth pointing out nevertheless. 2) You aren't going to want to listen to Levant's spoken dialogue over and over. 3) The Oscar Levant song "Young in Heart" is a throwaway, with florid piano accompaniment and a not particularly memorable tune and lyric, but a reasonable out-take specimen of the historical period a curiosity. 4) The "Rhapsody in Blue" rendition here is mannered and ineffective.
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Extractions: Although considered to be the premier interpreter of the piano works of George Gershwin, Levant's importance as a pianist is often overshadowed by his popularity as the leading neurotic humorist of mid-20th century radio, movies, and television. This CD collection is an excellent showcase for his considerable talent as a serious musician, playing the works of several classical composers other than Gershwin.
Oscar Levant Artist Biography - Theiceberg graduating from high school, levant struggled to make a living as pianist beforemoving In 1989 a oneman play based on the works of oscar levant entitled At http://www.theiceberg.com/artist/24540/oscar_levant/
Oscar Levant At Basic Music oscar levant was a well known performer who appeared in several Hollywood filmsof the 1940's. He is remembered as a pianist and recording artist. http://basicmusic.net/MusicianDisplay.php/musn/3474
Extractions: Pop, Composer, Performer, Piano Oscar Levant was a well known performer who appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940's. He is remembered as a pianist and recording artist. Search for sheet music by Oscar Levant at Sheet Music Plus 1 - 10 of 13 Somewhere over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals
1998 Once A Year Magazine: Public Relations Finds Its Niche Milwaukeeans tobuy bonds, he brought in such showbiz stars as Orson Welles and hisactresswife, Hollywood sex symbol Rita Hayworth; pianist oscar levant and a http://www.milwaukeepressclub.org/onceayear/oay98/nelson.html
Extractions: PUBLIC RELATIONS FINDS ITS NICHE - BILL NELSON When Bill Nelson, a long-time editor at The Milwaukee Journal, joinedMorgan&Myers/The Barkin Group public relations, he got an unexpectedassignment: to write a book about public relations in Milwaukee. He wrotethat book, one focusing on Milwaukee area public relations through the yearstold in a collection of vignettes. The following are edited versions ofjust some of the stories told in his book, "Works Beyond Words."The book was published in 1996 from interviews over many years. P UBLIC RELATIONS F INDS ITS NICHE Ben Barkin B EN BARKIN gambled by turningdown a job with the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., and opened his own PR agency.Schlitz would become his flagship account the start of a family-likerelationship that would span more than three decades. It gave him an opendoor to the offices of the Uihleins who ran the company. Barken had turned down a job paying $4,800 to gamble on a new field,public relations. In Milwaukee, a few independent practioners had triedtheir hands at PR through the years, and many corporations employed communicationspeople internally. But it still was a gamble, that salary offer was doublethe average American income. It was painful, Barkin reminisces today, butthe irony was that, over the years, "our agency's Schlitz earningswould climb to a half-million dollars annually." Public relations workwent so well, as a matter of fact, that the Barkin agency would not solicitbusiness for 35 years. "From 1945 to 1980 it came to us automatically,"says Barkin, a high-powered promoter never known for reticence or shirkingpublicity.
Oscar Levant B graduating from high school, levant struggled to make a living as pianist beforemoving In 1989 a oneman play based on the works of oscar levant entitled AT http://www.centrohd.com/biogra/l2/oscar_levant_b.htm
Non-Fiction Writers, Publishers, composer, poet, essayist, painter, pianist; Caldwell, Sarah US dancer, choreographer;Hammerstein, oscar (18951960 levant, oscar (1906-1972) US composer, musician http://www.areyoucreative.com/p-class.htm
Extractions: 5) Search for books, videos, CDs, DVDs, videos, and more by or about the famous person. Businessmen/women, Economists, Executives . . . Bach, Johann Sebastian German composer, organist Balanchine, George Russian choreographer Baryshnikov, Mikhail Latvian-USA ballet dancer Beecham, Thomas English conductor Beethoven, Ludwig van German composer Berlin, Irving US composer Berlioz, Hector French composer Bernstein, Leonard US composer, conductor Boulanger, Nadia French conductor, educator Britten, Benjamin English composer Cage, John
Extractions: Peer Resources Index Mentor Index Coaching Index Mentor Learning Index CLASSICAL AND BROADWAY MUSICIANS, PERFORMERS, COMPOSERS, CONDUCTORS, BALLET AND MODERN DANCERS Virtually anyone can benefit from having a mentor. And most well-known, accomplished and successful artists can identify people in their lives who acted as mentors. The following list of mentor pairs was compiled by Rey Carr from a variety of sources including autobiographies, biographies, newspaper articles, personal interviews, and diligent historical research. If you know of mentor pairs that ought to be added, we have provided an opportunity for you to submit the names and details: Add a Mentor Pair CLASSICAL AND BROADWAY MUSICIANS, PERFORMERS, COMPOSERS, CONDUCTORS, BALLET AND MODERN DANCERS Isaac Stern mentor to Pinchas Zukerman (Israeli violinist and conductor), Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, Shlomo Mintz, Sergui Luca and Yo-Yo Ma
OFAM Discography PERFORMER(S) (Arranged by last name of the pianist) oscar levant, piano ; PhiladelphiaOrchestra ; Eugene Ormandy, conductor DOUGLASS PHONODISC DMds 7380. http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/OFAM2000.html
Extractions: Le Jazz Hot: Americans in Paris, 1919 - 1955 A Discography of Resources for Listening, Reading and Viewing in the Knight Library's Music Services and Media Services Collections This is a list of resources to accompany the 2000 Oregon Festival of American Music's (OFoAM) programs. These resources are available in the UO's Knight Library in the Douglass Room, Music Services, and Media Services Collections . The recordings do not circulate outside the Library, except to the faculty and Graduate Teaching Fellows of the University of Oregon. Videocassettes and discs circulate to the faculty and graduate students of the University of Oregon. Paper versions of this listing are available at the Douglass Room Listening Desk. Lists by OFAM Session: Americans in Paris The French Connection Hot Paris Nights La Joie de Vivre ... OFAM Presenters: A Bibliography of Their Writings Americans in Paris Performers: Victor Steinhardt, Dick Hyman, Howard Alden, Lenanne Sylvester, Shirley Sachs, Johnny Frigo, Bucky Pizzarelli, The Festival Jazz Band Note: For books on Americans in Paris, see
Dead Or Alive? - Oscar Levant Profile, Send to friend, Last updated 02/02/2003. Go Back Dead oscar levant FieldEntertainment, Music. Info Concert pianist, gifted wit, actor, composer and http://www.dead-or-alive.org/dead.nsf/lnames-nf/Levant Oscar
Pianist Alec Templeton, The Remington Story And Don Gabor was issued on 2 12 shellac discs (CX190) and on vinyl (ML-4455) and was listedin Columbia's catalog with the famous recording of oscar levant with the http://www.xs4all.nl/~rabruil/remtemple.html
Extractions: Templeton on RCA 78s The popular Templeton on Atlantic 45 RPM Remington R-199-158 Remington R-199-184 Counterpoint/Esoteric Some musiclovers know the name Alec Templeton as the composer of "Bach Goes To Town". And if their knowledge goes a bit further they also may recall "Mozart Matriculates" and even "Scarlatti Stoops to Conga". Templeton was known as the radio and tv celebrity who in the nineteen forties and fifties regularly appeared on shows hosted by Bing Crosby, and who later had his own show called "It's Alec Templeton Time" (6/3 - 8/26/1955). The more serious collector will probably recall that blind Alec Templeton recorded Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with Andre Kostelanetz for Columbia in the nineteen forties. The recording was issued on 2 12" shellac discs (CX-190) and on vinyl (ML-4455) and was listed in Columbia's catalog with the famous recording of Oscar Levant with the Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Eugene Ormandy. Although Levant mastered both the "Rhapsody" and the "Concerto in F" with insight and skill as hardly anybody else, Templeton - also being a talented improvisor, but less a virtuoso - had the same feeling for Gershwin's music.
Welcome To Piano.com Lehrbaumer, Robert pianist, organist, artistic director, and conductor. levant,oscar Lin, Jenny - includes biography, repertoire, photo gallery, reviews http://www.piano.com/pianist/pianist_classical.cfm
Class Act: Composers: "L" Letters, Will Compositions used in films on Class Act Has Anybody HereSeen Kelly? levant, oscar (1906 1972) Concert pianist/composer/actor. http://www.classicmoviemusicals.com/compl.htm
Pittsburgh Musicians, Carnegie Library Of Pittsburgh Resource Patty Lupone. oscar levant. Lorin Maazel. Jazz pianist with the Gene KrupaBand and the Tommy Dorsey Band, and also played with Charlie Barnet. http://151.201.61.20/subject/pgh/famous/musicians.html
H:\dsymphony\docroot\htdocs\record\baroque_notes.shtml friendships. One of these was with pianist and composer oscar levant,who took some lessons with Schoenberg early in his career. In http://www.detroitsymphony.com/record/inextinguishable_notes.shtml
Extractions: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Allegro P iano Concerto, Op. 42 (1942) Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) After Schoenberg left Germany in 1933 to escape Nazi persecution, he eventually settled in Los Angeles, where he taught at UCLA. The proximity of the Hollywood community produced some rather unlikely friendships. One of these was with pianist and composer Oscar Levant, who took some lessons with Schoenberg early in his career. In his Memoirs of an Amnesiac Although Levant eventually pulled out of the commission, which by now had assumed far larger proportions that he had first contemplated, Schoenberg continued work on the Piano Concerto, completing it on December 26, 1942. Eduard Steuermann was the pianist for the premiere in New York on February 6, 1944 with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski. (Presto)/ A grave situation was created (Adagio)/ But life goes on (Rondo). S Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Nielsen began the Fourth Symphony in 1914, completed it in January 1916 and conducted the premiere in Copenhagen on February 1. In a letter written in 1920, he explained the title: "The title 'The Inextinguishable' is not a program but a pointer to the proper domain of music. It is meant to express the appearance of the most elementary forces among men, animals, and even plants. We can say: if all the world was devastated through fire, deluge, volcanoes, etc., and all things destroyed and dead, then nature would still begin to breed new life again, begin to push forward again with all the fine and strong forces inherent in matter. Soon the plants would begin to multiply, the breeding and screaming of birds be seen and heard, man's aspiration and yearning would be felt. These forces, which are 'inextinguishable,' I have tried to represent."
Oscar Levant - Renaissance Man selfexpression as a concert pianist, teacher, bandleader and composer - all beforereaching his 20th birthday. As an artist, oscar levant was comparable to http://alt.tcm.turner.com/MONTH_SPOTS/99/12/birthdays.htm
Extractions: "A Smattering of Ignorance," "The Unimportance of Being Oscar" and "The Memoirs of an Amnesiac" are all the testimony of a man who was the victim of his own genius. Oscar Levant was born on December 27, 1906 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the son of a repairman. Beginning at age 16 with a move to New York, Levant embarked on a journey towards self-expression as a concert pianist, teacher, bandleader and composer - all before reaching his 20th birthday. As an artist, Oscar Levant was comparable to King Midas in that all that he touched - music, film, and literature - turned to gold. As a man, however, Levant lived in and succumbed to his own tortured mind. In developing his musical talent during the late '20s and '30s, Oscar Levant studied under such masters as Stojowski, Schoenberg and Schillinger. He would then become a best friend, protégé and world-renowned interpreter of George Gershwin. Most memorable of his Gershwin idolatry is An American in Paris (1951), where Levant plays every member of the orchestra in a performance of Gershwin's "Concerto in F."
Tomfolio.com: Humor: Humorous Memoirs xi, 267 p. 21,5 cm. Thirtyfour years old is young to be publishing an autobiography,but pianist oscar levant has good musical stories to tell. http://www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?catid=23&subid=916
Gershwin: Rememberence & Discovery the recently discovered Two Waltzes in C being one of oscar levant's favorites VirgilThomson once told me that levant was the only pianist who accurately http://www.classical-music-review.org/reviews/Gershwin.htm
Extractions: Classical Music Review: New Releases George Gershwin - Rememberence and Discovery, Vol. 2. S'wonderful?; Funny Face; Maybe; Soon; I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise; But Not for Me; Someone to Watch Over Me; Who Cares?; Rialto Ripples; How Long Has This Been Going On ?; Jazzbo Brown Blues; For You, For Me, Forever More; Isn't It A Pity; Love is here to Stay; Rhapsody in Blue (solo). Richard Glazier, piano; Centaur CRC 2486. 63'31". American concert pianist Richard Glazier has a special affection for the Gershwin songbook he's loved American musicals from an early age and he communicates that in this program of 15 tunes, 10 of which are versions by arrangers like the recently renowned Artis Wodehose she masterminded Nonesuch's two piano roll CDs of Gershwin materialMaurice C. Whitney, and MGM house arranger Saul Chaplin (he performed those duties in the film of The Sound Of Music (1965).) Glazier evokes a perfect period feel in each number when that's called for especially in the first few and that's a large part of their charm, though his most impressive "interpretations" come in the "stylized by Stan Freeman" ones which are in the modern jazz idiom, and in Gershwin's "Jazzbo Brown Blues" which the composer originally intended as a solo piano opening to his folk opera Porgy and Bess (1934) its director Rouben Mamoulian (1898-1987), who helmed many famous Hollywood films includiing Garbo's
