Seite 08 pianist and conductor). June levant (wife of oscar levant) mentorto Michael Feinstein (pianist and singer). Hans Swarowsky mentor http://www.professional-mentoring.de/link08/seite08_2.htm
Extractions: The Mentor Hall of Fame. Quelle: Peer Resources - The Mentors Corporation, Canada Actors, Comedians, Producers and Directors (Stage, Screen and TV) Jack Lemmon mentor to Kevin Spacey Gary David Goldberg mentor to Michael J. Fox Warren Beatty mentor to Diane Keaton Gilda Radner mentor to Catherine O'Hara Philip Burton (schoolteacher) mentor to Richard Burton Jonathan Winters mentor to Robin Williams Lee Stasberg mentor to Ellen Burstyn Roman Polanski mentor to Nastassja Kinski James Dean mentor to Dennis Hopper Mauritz Stiller (movie maker) mentor to Greta Garbo Richard Burton mentor to Sir Anthony Hopkins Sir John Gielgud mentor to Sir Alec Guiness Sir Alec Guinness (British actor) mentor to Timothey Findley (Canadian novelist) Alfred Lunt (actor) mentor to Montgomery Clift Adam Farrar mentor to Leonardo DiCaprio Anne Jackson (actress) mentored by her sister, Katherine
Scene Online he recalled. One day, I went into a record store looking for someobscure releases by (pianist and writer) oscar levant. The guy http://www.newspress.com/SceneOnline/_music2.html
Extractions: 'Unstressed elegance' By Don Freeman December 13, 2002 A beautiful quote, if you love jazz, and I do. Jazz was indeed the core essence of this brilliant hoofer and a singer who introduced many of the enduring songs of his day. The foremost songwriters from Irving Berlin to Cole Porter sought him out with their tunes, to which he added the tone of jazz and a personal style that was charming and inimitable and musically entrancing. I will go further: Fred Astaire was the greatest performer who ever faced an audience. Chaplin could always make an audience cry, but I have witnessed his old comedies and he never elicited laughter from me. Jolson was indefatigable with his explosive energy but he was locked to an era long past. Bet me that in the forthcoming decades, Astaire will never be labeled old-fashioned. Fred Astaire, as dancer and singer, will always be eternally contemporary. Once, there were the two Astaire kids from Omaha, Fred and his older sister, Adele. Their father, a brewer named Austerlitz, had migrated from Austria. In time, the name would be bobbed to fit the marquees. They were taken by their mother to New York to study the art of Terpsichore. Soon they would emerge as a team that wowed the folks out front in vaudeville and then they hit stardom on Broadway. They worked exquisitely in tandem until Adele married into British nobility and Fred went off on his own.
Quotes By Oscar Levant Who? oscar levant Come Again? US pianist. Said What? I think a lot of Bernstein but not as much as he doe . Submit another quote for oscar levant. http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/quotes.php?name=Oscar Levant&type=3
Great Performances: Carnegie Hall - Behind The Scenes Once, on a crosscountry train trip from New York to Los Angeles that he was makingwith his great friend, pianist oscar levant, George crawled into the lower http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/carnegiehall/html/behind.html
Extractions: "Self-portrait in an Opera Hat," by George Gershwin. Click on detail for larger view. (43K) "My Body," a self-portrait by Ira Gershwin. Click on detail for larger view. (33K) Telegram of condolences sent by the Marx Brothers upon George's death. Click on detail for larger view. (28K) Photo credits: Self-Portrait in an Opera Hat, a self-portrait by George Gerswhin, 1932. Courtesy of Judy Gershwin. My Body, a self-portrait by Ira Gershwin, 1932. Courtesy of the Ira and Leonore Gerswhin Trusts. A telegram of condolences sent by the Marx Brothers to Ira Gershwin upon the death of George Gershwin, 1937. Courstesy of Music Division, Library of Congress. The Rose Museum Exhibit at Carnegie Hall: A Virtual Tour By John Ardoin T o celebrate the 100th anniversary of Gershwin's birth in September, 1998, Carnegie Hall opened a remarkable exhibition of memorabilia of the Gershwin brothers George and Ira in its Rose Museum. (The exhibition runs through October 4, 1998, and is open daily from 11:00 am to 4:30 p.m., except Wednesdays. Admission is free. For further information, call 212-903-9629.) The show's title, "Nice Work If You Can Get It," was borrowed from one of the brothers' best-known songs, and, as the catalogue published by Carnegie Hall observes, the two men were opposites in personality, lifestyle, and creative pursuits: "George and his brother Ira represent a unique and perhaps the most successful collaboration in American music. George the composer and pianist, with his musical ability, charismatic personality, energy and ambitious drive, became internationally famous while still in his early twenties and died tragically at the age of thirty-eight.
Letters To Schoenberg: 1942 1942?.., Langridge, Roy, I am a student of music and a pianist and am begin. 1942.08.22,levant, oscar, Delighted with manuscript, forgive delay, have bee. http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/schoenberg/ltrto42.htm
Extractions: Letters from Schoenberg (arranged by date ; arranged by correspondent Letters to Schoenberg: 1942 Date Writer Writer's Company First line of letter Engel, Carl Thanks for letter fifteenth received this morning Greissle, Felix schon bevor wir Deinen Brief erhielten, hatten wir Kostal, Irwin Some time ago, you were kind enough to send me a c Langridge, Roy I am a student of music and a pianist and am begin You will find here the Concerto I have told you ab Greissle, Gertrud Many thanks for your gifts, for the boys as well a Greissle, Gertrud Reis, Claire R. League of Composers The League of Composers is now planning its very i LC There were received from you on January 5, with yo Am enclosing notes of Chorus[?] now in its period Mottram, H.M. Milwaukee Friends of Mus At a recent meeting of the Program Committee of th Reis, Claire R. League of Composers The League of Composers is delighted to have your Stein, Erwin I was delighted to receive your letter and to lear Janssen, Werner
ASI Satellite Collections L oscar levant was an American pianist, composer, and author who studied briefly (19351937)with Schoenberg in Los Angeles. He commissioned Schoenberg's Op. 42. http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/schoenberg/sat-l.htm
Extractions: 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. Among his other credits, he wrote the lyric, -Irving Caesar the music, for the song "Lady, Play Your Mandolin" recorded ca. 1931, with Al Bowlly vocal and the Roy Fox Orchestra. (An English Band). Also: Al Lewis, recalled today as a lyricist, did occasionally write the music too..He was most active during the 1920's and into the 1950's. (Often confused with Sam M. Lewis) During this time, he very often worked with fellow lyricist Al Sherman, and with composer Abner Silver. His best known hit songs include:
Screen Musicals 1950's - Part 2 1951) An exGI turned painter played by Gene Kelly falls in love with shopgirl Leslie Caron while pianist oscar levant provides sardonic commentary. http://www.musicals101.com/1950film2.htm
Extractions: Amid Hollywood's general decline, MGM produced its share of low budget quickies. However, it also managed to turn out some of the most extraordinary musicals ever filmed. Four in particular were standouts: An American in Paris Gene Kelly falls in love with shop girl Leslie Caron while pianist Oscar Levant provides sardonic commentary. Director Vincente Minnelli used Alan Jay Lerner 's screenplay to showcase classic George and Ira Gershwin songs. "By Strauss" and "I Got Rhythm" became giddy sidewalk production numbers, and a 17-minute fantasy ballet (which took more than two months to rehearse and shoot) turned the tone poem "American in Paris" into the most ambitious use of dance ever attempted in a feature film. The film received six Academy Awards including Best Picture, and a special award for Gene Kelly's contribution to dance on screen. Singin in The Rain and Stanley Donen co-directed this hilarious screenplay written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green . It told of the insanity that reigned in Hollywood when sound was introduced, making and breaking stars. Kelly
WESTWOOD CEMETERY levant, oscar, 190672, COMPOSER, pianist, WIT. MARTIN, DEAN, 1917-95,SINGER, ACTOR, JERRY LEWIS FILM PARTNER '50s, MATT HELM MOVIES '60s. http://www.yournorthvillage.org/PAGES/P_WWCEM.html
Extractions: AIDMAN, CHARLES 1925-93, TWILIGHT ZONE "LITTLE GIRL LOST" '59 ARDEN, EVE 1907-90, OUR MISS BROOKS '52-56 AUBREY, JAMES T. 1919-94, PRES. CBS '59-65, FATHER OF ACTRESS SKYE AUBREY AYRES, LEW BACKUS, JAMES (JIM) 1913-89, VOICE OF MR. MAGOO, GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, THURSTON HOWELL III BASEHART, RICHARD 1914-84, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, FILM '64, TV SERIES '64-'68 BISSELL, WHITNER N. 1909-96, SOYLENT GREEN '73 BLOCH, ROBERT A. 1917-94, AUTHOR, PSYCHO '60 BRICE, FANNY 1891-51, COMEDIENNE, SUBJECT OF MOVIE FUNNY GIRL CABOT, SEBASTIAN 1918-77, MR. FRENCH, A FAMILY AFFAIR, '66 CAHN, SAMMY
Glazier Does Gershwin in an arrangement by Sylvia Rabinof which is dedicated to the pianist, and three was12 years old and his aunt introduced him to the oscar levant recording of http://www.fredflaxman.com/Glazier.html
Extractions: Glazier Does Gershwin July 4th is all the excuse I need to write about American composers or performers. This month I can do both simultaneously thanks to the superb recording of unusual Gershwin repertoire by the gifted 33-year-old American pianist Richard Glazier. The compact disc is called "Gershwin: Remembrance and Discovery," and it's on the Centaur label (CRC 2271). This CD is distributed by Qualiton Imports, though in this case it is "imported" from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a place where, it seems, both modern politicians and classical Centaurs live. Of course there is no more American composer than George Gershwin. It would be hard to find a compatriot who didn't love his music. He was the first highly successful cross-over composer, writing long-form "classical" music that instantly became as popular as his most popular tunes. In my view, Gershwin was one of the greatest tunesmiths in all music history, knocking out one gorgeous, unforgettable melody after another - an American Schubert, although, unlike poor Franz, very much appreciated in his own time. As you can imagine, I have quite a collection of Gershwin CDs, so it's hard for any solo pianist to come up with repertoire that isn't already on my shelves. But Glazier has managed to do this, and do it with such feeling, I knew on first hearing that here was a performer who loved Gershwin's music at least as much as I do.
Turner Classic Movies After shooting one scene this way, pianist oscar levant, who improvised many of hislines as Garfield's sidekick and accompanist, quipped, Why don't the four http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/ThisMonth/Article/0,,17894|17905||,00.html
Extractions: However her character may have felt in this 1946 romantic drama, on-screen Joan Crawford played second fiddle to nobody. Although John Garfield had the larger role, as a ghetto boy who rises to fame and fortune as a classical violinist, Crawford dominated the film. From her first appearance, fending off a circle of admirers all trying to light her cigarette, to her final scenes as she walks into the ocean to save Garfield's career, the film showcased Crawford in one of her most complex roles. Humoresque was adapted from a Fannie Hurst short story that had been filmed as a silent in 1920. The 1946 version was inspired less by a desire to remake her classic tearjerker than by Warner Bros.' need to get something out of a very expensive and lengthy screenplay Clifford Odets had written for Rhapsody in Blue , their musical biography of composer George Gershwin. The Odets take on his story was good, but a little heavier on social commentary than they'd planned. But his story of a slum boy whose musical talents are exploited by the wealthy had potential, so producer Jerry Wald matched it with Hurst's similar tale to create a vehicle for John Garfield.
Humoresque pianist oscar levant is a double threat in this movie, as he, too, doesa star turn as Boray's best friend, acting as a comedic foil. http://video.reviewindex.com/reviews/6301968964.html
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CDs (A victim of repeated psychiatric abuses, this pioneering bebop pianist died atage 44 oscar levant Plays Gershwin (levant's bipolar fueled his wit, talent, and http://www.mcmanweb.com/book-19.htm
Extractions: McMan's Depression and Bipolar Web Home Articles Links News ... Search Knowledge is Necessity Main books page. Go here More Book Categories Highly Recommended New Classics Depression Books ... Readers' Choices Book Reviews The Noonday Demon Electroboy CDs Featuring works by composers or performing artists with depression or bipolar. Beethoven: Nine Symphonies Herbert Van Karajan's classic 1963 cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic. (See article Judy Garland: Capitol Years 19955-1965 Remastered classics. (Renowned for moving her audiences to tears, she wound up paying the ultimate price in 1969.) Classical Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony. (This Hungarian composer experienced ill health and depression during the final years of his life as a refugee in America.) Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Ricardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra. (The first true "program" symphony, a lovesick musician sinks into depression and overdoses on a narcotic. Later, embittered by the poor reception of his opera, Les Troyens, Berlioz sank into another depression and abandoned composing altogether.) Anton Bruckner: The Complete Symphonies Eugen Jochum. (Suicidal depression and anxiety resulted in a nervous breakdown that required a three-month hospitalization.)
MMD Archives: "I Love A Piano" improvisation really fascinated me, and I tried to find out more about this pianist. throughan antique shop when I spotted a copy of oscar levant's book A http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/200004/2000.04.26.07.html
MMD Archives: "Rhapsody In Blue" At The End Of The Century were very good, especially the oscar levant Columbia 78 Both Lois Konvalinka (whoheard levant play Gershwin conductor Marlin Alsop and pianist Marcus Roberts http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/200001/2000.01.01.10.html
Sarkis Baltaian - Concert Pianist has gained an international reputation as a concert pianist, soloist, chamber delicatepianissimos and compared to George Gershwin and oscar levant for his http://www.baltaian.com/sarkisbaltaianbio.htm
Extractions: Mr. Baltaian is the 1999 winner of the USC Piano Concerto Competition. He is also a Grand prize winner of the Armenian Allied Arts Association Competition, the "Young Piano Virtuosi" International Competition in the Czech Republic and the "Svetoslav Obretenov" National Competition in Bulgaria. His festival appearances include the Aspen International Music Festival, Holland Music Sessions and Plovdiv International Chamber Music Festival. Mr. Baltaian has made numerous recordings for Television and Radio Stations in the United States, Holland, Czech Republic and Bulgaria. He has been featured in live radio broadcasts on KUSC "Sundays at Four", Los Angeles, WMFT's "Dame Myra Hess" series in Chicago, KNPR Classical series, Las Vegas. Bio in pdf format Resume in pdf format Mr. Baltaian Photo Listen to Mr. Baltaian play
Fascinating Rhythms who were both associates and admirers oscar levant and Vernon pit Schoenberg, whobriefly gave levant composition lessons as an actor and popconcert pianist. http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/288/
Extractions: Buy theater tickets! Arts Classical Music Review Fascinating Rhythms Another concert in the unfolding celebration of George Gershwin's music finds parallels in the works of Oscar Levant, Vernon Duke, and Maurice Ravel. By Peter G. Davis Left-handed complement:Ursula Oppens, with Dennis Russell Davies at Carnegie Hall. L etting go of the 1998 George Gershwin centenary is proving to be difficult, if forgivably so. There is still plenty to learn about this most popular of serious American composers, especially the exact nature of the scores he wrote for his many Broadway shows. The American Composers Orchestra 's recent tribute, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies in Carnegie Hall, wasn't able to go into that, but the music was choice and the context fascinating. This was not just another run-through of overplayed Gershwin concert classics but an attempt to locate the composer amid the music of three contemporaries who were both associates and admirers: Oscar Levant and Vernon Duke, who, like their mentor, traveled between high- and lowbrow circles with varying degrees of discomfort, and Maurice Ravel, a fastidious classicist whose symbiotic relationship with Gershwin has yet to be properly studied. The program consisted of four works for piano and orchestra, performed in ascending order of quality: one-movement concertos by Duke and Levant, followed by Gershwin's
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Extractions: Synopsis Gene Kelly stars i as Jerry Mulligan, i a carefree young artist i in post-WW II Paris. In her spectacular film debut Leslie Caron is i Lise Bourvier, i a lonely French shopgirl engaged i to marry i a successful entertainer unless jerry can convince her otherwise! From their first on-screen meeting i to the i spectacular ballet finale, Kelly and i Caron are superb. And
Parlor Songs MIDI Collection October 1998 Featured Covers Soon all would change. The songwriter, oscar levant, was a composerand pianist and a close friend of George Gershwin. levant starred http://parlorsongs.com/issues/1998-10/oct98feature.asp
Extractions: The Stock Market Blues, Remembering The Great Depression October marks the 69th anniversary of the great crash of 1929 that plunged the country into a massive financial depression that eventually spread to the world and changed the financial markets forever. It is hard to believe that a condition that occured so long ago still affects our lives today. As it is, the market seems always jittery in October, whether that is due to continuing fear over seventy years or just the nature of financial cycles, who knows. Of course the great depression also affected music. The euphoric music of the late twenties turned to more somber tunes and as the depression deepened, music turned to messages of hope and future happiness to divert attention from the reality of the times. This month ParlorSongs takes a musical tour of the depressuion with depression era music. Some of the greatest music of our time emerged from this deeply emotional and trying period. Loveable and Sweet Cover artist: unknown In 1929 the roaring 20s were coming to a close, everything was wonderful, the economy was booming and the flappers were still out there flapping. I am sure that most people thought the good times would never stop. This song is a typical upbeat twenties fox-trot, full of optimism and revelry. Soon all would change.
