Toots Thielemans Biography: MarsJazz Booking Agency after seeing the American virtuoso Larry adler in a A regular gig at ma maison, aBrussels nightclub saw Howard McGhee's band and with pianist Lennie Tristano. http://www.marsjazz.com/tootstbio.html
Extractions: Excerpted from Windham Hill promo material for Chez Toots It's no secret that Jean 'Toots' Thielemans is the preeminent exponent of the harmonica in jazz. Thielemans took a simple instrument with folkloric baggage and brought it into the contemporary jazz ensemble, both large and small. However, non-jazz audiences are familiar with Toots also. Maybe he touched them with his mournful playing on the soundtracks of such movies as "Midnight Cowboy" and "Sugarland Express." Maybe Thielemans spoke to the child in them through his performance of the "Sesame Street" theme, which he also wrote. No matter what the medium, Toots Thielemans knows how to emotionally connect with listeners. What is it about Toots that can move people? "A tear comes quickly to me," confesses the 76-year-old native of Brussels, Belgium. "That's the way my music is, I guess." It is the quality of being able to express the sweet and the bitter that is stamped onto Thielemans' playing and has made him a favorite worldwide. Toots was always musical, fooling around with an accordion as early as age three. His knack for math had Toots working towards a career as an engineer. But Thielemans had discovered the harmonica as a teenager after seeing the American virtuoso Larry Adler in a movie. A respiratory ailment confined Toots to a long period of bed rest and the harmonica was put into a drawer. He began to teach himself guitar, but the German occupation of Belgium in 1941 forced his family to flee to France, where he heard BBC broadcasts of big band music.
TAXI ARTICLE: Janis Ian Interview I mean, Chick Corea thinks I'ma wonderful pianist, Chet Atkins thinks I'ma wonderfulguitarist. is that I studied theater with Stella adler who was one http://www.taxi.com/insiders/ji.html
Extractions: Born a second-generation American, Janis considers herself a true American success story. "My people came here to get away from persecution," she says. "All the reasons we were told as we were growing up that America was formed were exactly why my family landed here." Her grandparents were immigrants who worked at menial labor. Janis was born in 1951 on a New Jersey chicken farm where her parents worked, and her father later became a music teacher while her mother became an administrative assistant to a university dean. "I'm the first person in my family to own a house, so it really is the American success story to me." Janis achieved her first hit with Society's Child, a song about racial discrimination, at the tender age of fifteen. The song was banned by radio because of its controversial nature and it wasn't until Leonard Bernstein featured her on his TV special and called her "a marvelous creature" that it became a top-ten hit. Society's Child established Janis Ian as a writer of substance, but because of its political nature she had threats on her life and there were areas of the country where she couldn't tourall at an age when simply trying to grow up is a struggle. She left the music industry at eighteen and returned in 1973 when Roberta Flack had a hit song with Jesse. Her 1976 album, Between the Lines, was nominated for five Grammy awards (the most any female artist had received at once), and produced what she says is her career song, At Seventeen.
Strad Magazine Profile Of Aaron Rosand, Virtuoso Violinist adler decided to send me to study with Zimbalist Little Orchestra Society, for whichEileen was the pianist. of sound on synthetic strings.' I'ma stickler for http://aaronrosand.com/articlestrad1997.htm
Extractions: At 70, Aaron Rosand is busier than ever. But if his reluctance to conform has affected his career, he doesn't care, he tells Dennis Rooney. (Reprinted with Permission from Strad Magazine, November 1997 'I've always been something of a rebel,' Aaron Rosand says to me as he recalls the near half-century since his debut in New York's Town Hall. 'I never thought of music as a business, living in a fantasy world where music is concerned. I was always very proud and if I couldn't do it on my own I didn't want to do it. I do have a certain intolerance for incompetence, preferring to live in my own ivory tower rather than be nice to people who are not worth the effort,' he continues, 'I haven't played the social game or attempted to ingratiate myself with people in power. Some might say this has cost me, but I don't think so. I live very well, and those who appreciate what I have to say and do make my career gratifying.' Cicadas provide a shrill counterpoint to our conversation on a mild August afternoon as we sit on a shady patio at the rear of Rosand's Connecticut home, where he lives with his wife, Monica Woo, in a rambling yet cosy house that is filled with mementos, each one possessing a unique resonance of the people, places and events that fill a lifetime. Rosand, with a small goatee and a slim, athletic figure, wears his 70 years lightly; the refinement of his person is matched by his renowned elegance as a performer. However, despite a reputation among both his colleagues and his connoisseurs as one of the peerless violinists of his generation, Rosand has never achieved wide public acclaim. For many years, his appearances before U.S. audiences were often infrequent, his reputation in his homeland to a large extent secured by a distinguished series of recordings.
Year 2001 MUSICIANS Milestones ~ AMUSIClassical Directory 06 AUG 2001 adler, Larry (Harmonica virtuoso 15 FEB 2001 GOLDOVSKY, Boris (conductor,pianist, lecturer and opera impresario Died at his home in Brookline, ma. http://members.tripod.com/perfartists/obits2001.html
Extractions: Click to subscribe to MUSIClassical discussion list Recent Classical Musician Deaths ~ 2001 31 DEC 2001 RUBINSTEIN, Aniela (Wife of pianist Artur hostess). Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1908. She died in New York, aged 93. The London Times 29 DEC 2001 ASAHINA, Takashi (Conductor). Died at a Kobe hospital was known for his dignified conducting. He specialized in the works of Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner. ~ age 93. Guardian Obit, AP
Gb Music Time Line Tl_music1950 School for Wives, opera, Louisville adler and Ross pianist, appears in Western countriesFlorent Schmitt, Fr Dhery and Gerard Calvi La Plume de ma Tant Samuel http://www.ubmail.ubalt.edu/~pfitz/time/tl_music1950.html
Extractions: Popular songs: "if I Knew You Were Comin I'dve Baked a Cake"; "Ragg Mopp"; "Sam's Story"; "A Bushel and a Peck"; "Cest Si Bon"; "Good Night, Irene"; "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena"; "Music! Music! Music!"; "Mona Lisa"
Marymount Manhattan College, Dance Department Reba adler (Dance History) received her BM from Oberlin Elma Lewis School of the Artsin Roxbury, ma, while a In addition to his work as pianist, performer and http://marymount.mmm.edu/departments/dance/dancfacubio.html
Extractions: Reba Adler (Dance History) received her B.M. from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, M.A. and Ph.D. from NYU in Dance History. She had a variety of performing experiences as a flutist and has taught a wide range of dance music and visual arts classes at St. John's University, The New School, Colorado College, Dance Theatre of Harlem, NYU and MMC. Reba sings professionally throughout New York City and has been a member of Marymount Manhattan College since 1989. She is currently doing research and has published articles on the theatrical careers of baseball players. Ron Alexander Wendy Amos (Anatomy) joined Marymount Manhattan College in 1997. She is a faculty member at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Ballet Academy East, and at Lighthouse where she teaches Body Conditioning based on the principles of Joseph Pilates. She apprenticed with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She also was the Program Coordinator of the New Visions Dance Project for sight impaired at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. She developed and replicated curriculum for challenged persons. Awards include 1986 Very Special Arts Educator of the Year, and the 1992 Mayor's VSA NYC Artist in Dance. In 1988 she received her Master's degree in Dance and Dance Education from Teacher's College, Columbia University. She is a teaching artist, workshop presenter, lecturer, and personal trainer throughout New York City. Robert Atwood Elizabeth Auclair Sheila Barker (Jazz) has been a teacher/choreographer for the past several years and is currently teaching at Broadway Center, American Ballet Theatre and Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. She has taught master workshops and choreographed in Japan, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Europe and across the U.S. Sheila graduated with a BFA in dance and her performing credits include the Broadway show Uptown It's Hot and the soap opera One Life to Live. Sheila has also choreographed industrials, live concerts, and videos for a number of recording artists. Currently, Sheila is co-founder and director of Success America, a New York summer intensive program for young inspiring dancers. It has placed many youngsters in shows such as: Smokey Joe's Café, Footloose, Big, Radio City Music Hall, Contact, and the Music Man. She is director of She-B Productions.
Unicorn Media Name Search pianist, Komponist), 03. mai 1894 Cambridge,ma, USA - 17. März 1956 New York, NY, USA; Sarah adler (Schauspieler http://www.kinotv.com/proc/bio/diedplace2.cfm?died_place=New York
Vorlesungsverzeichnis WS 2002/2003 Translate this page Schöller, Wolfgang, Dr. phil., Kunstgeschichte, Josef-adler-Str. Schneck, Robert,ma, wiss. Poschner, markus, pianist, Griesbachgasse 30, 85049 Ingolstadt, Tel http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Universitaet/Vorlesungsverzeichnis/aktuell/7/doz.ht
Martin Amlin composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel adler, and Warren Artists Series, and hasbeen pianist for the Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, ma, October 28 http://www.presser.com/composers/amlin.html
Extractions: Home Research Tools Concert Information Composers Martin Amlin Much of Martin Amlins music is characterized by a pungent tonality and a very high level of rhythmic energy. His Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra was premiered by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and his compositions have been performed throughout the United States by such artists as the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the John Oliver Chorale, the Back Bay Chorale, the Webster Trio, and the American Vocal Arts Quintet. He has had commissions from the Seattle Flute Society, Pacific Serenades, ALEA III, the James Pappoutsakis memorial flute competition, pianist Andrew Willis, and clarinetist Michael Webster; he is published by the Theodore Presser Company. His Sonata for Piccolo and Piano was winner of the National Flute Associations newly-published music competition; other awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. He was a recipient of an ASCAP Grant to Young Composers and has received many ASCAP Standard Awards. He has been a resident at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony, where he was named a Norlin Fellow. Mr. Amlin studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Écoles dArt Américaines in Fontainebleau and the École Normale de Musique in Paris. He received masters and doctoral degrees as well as the Performers Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied piano with Frank Glazer and composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, and Warren Benson.
Chet Williamson Joined by pianist Will McCabe, bassist Thomson Kneeland and drummer Steve Williamsonplays in the tradition of Larry adler and Toots 2 Holden, ma 01520 (508 http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~a.daane/williamson.htm
Extractions: WILLIAMSON's Chromatic Swing is the sound of the chromatic harmonica soaring through the swing classics of the immortal Big Band era. As Chet Williamson shows on his unique new release, it's the perfect way to revisit old friends and see them in a whole new light. After 25 years of performing and recording as a sideman with jazz and blues, folk, pop and gospel groups, Williamson steps out on his own, with a disc of swing standards made famous by the likes of Count Basie, Charlie Shavers and Harry "Sweets" Edison. Combining the grace of Toots Thielemans, the excitement of Larry Adler, and a rhythm section drenched in the blues, Williamson has created a refreshing recording that puts timeless pieces into a whole new context. Three players who take a highly personal route through both swing and the blues join Williamson on his journey through jazz chestnuts and harmonica classics. Pianist Matt McCabe (Sugar Ray Norcia, Roomful of Blues, Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets) and drummer Steve Ramsay (J. Geils/Magic Dick Bluestime) work with the most devoted carriers of the jump blues torch. Bassist Thomson Kneeland brings a highly adventurous sound garnered from experience playing jazz that ranges from Dixieland to the avant-garde. Recorded "live-in-the-studio" almost entirely in one take Chromatic Swing is an all-acoustic date that shows four top-notch musicians dedicated to challenging solos and breathtaking interplay. The group's rhythm section quickly locked in, and pushed the music to a higher level during the entire session.
Binghamton University Music Department BA Antioch College; ma, Ph.D State University of Composition studies with Karel Husa,Samuel adler and Warren Guild of Organists, and as pianist/composer for http://music.binghamton.edu/menu/faculty.htm
Extractions: Lecturer of Music (Trumpet). BA, Yale University; MM, Yale School of Music. Member of the Syracuse and Binghamton Symphonies, as well as the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic and the Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra. Performs with and arranges for the Catskill Brass Quintet. Charter member of the International Trumpet Guild. Recordings on Columbia and Redwood records. Lecturer (French Horn). BS Ithaca College. Studied the French horn with John Barrows, Joseph Singer, Harry Shapiro, Gunther Schuller, Milan Yancich, John Covert, Robert Prins and Theo Rollins. Performed with such artists as Gary Graffman, Leonard Rose, Placido Domingo, Richard Leech, Toby Hanks (tuba), David Ohanion (French horn-Canadian Brass Quintet), Connie Stevens, Sergio Franchi, Enzo Stuarte, Robert Rauch (French horn), and Barry Tuckwell (French horn). Performing member with the Binghamton Philharmonic, BC Pops, Tri- Cities Opera and Binghamton Woodwind Quintet. Member of the music faculty since 1977.
Extractions: MSS 73, The Karl Weigl Papers in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University Title: The Karl Weigl Papers Dates: 1894-1986, inclusive Created by: Karl Weigl Call number: MSS 73 Repository: Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University Quantity: 15 linear ft. (31 boxes) Abstract: Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the Austrian-American composer Karl Weigl (1881-1949), as well as the papers of his wife, the composer Vally Weigl (1899-1982). In 10 series as follows: I. Music. II. Correspondence. III. Writings. IV. Biographical Material. V. Programs and Publicity. VI. Reviews. VII. Photographs. VIII. Other Papers. IX. Vally Weigl Papers. X. Sound Recordings. Access Restrictions: The Papers are open to researchers by appointment. There are no restricted materials in the collection. Please contact Suzanne Eggleston (telephone: 203-432-0497; E-mail: suzanne.eggleston@yale.edu) or Richard Boursy (telephone: 203-432-7883; E-mail: richard.boursy@yale.edu) to schedule an appointment. Acquisition Information: The Karl Weigl Papers were established in the Music Library of Yale University by Etta Ruth Weigl and her sons Karl and Andrew in 1989-1993.
Faculty - Community Education Division - Eastman School Of Music Ayden adler (French horn) BA from Princeton MM in horn performance from Juilliard,ma in musicology jazz musicians; featured ragtime pianist at international http://www.rochester.edu/Eastman/ced/faculty.html
Extractions: Faculty and Administration The faculty of the Community Education Division consists of dedicated, professional musicians. Many of them have active performing careers, many serve additionally on the faculties of area schools and colleges, and many are nationally recognized clinicians and adjudicators. All of them are dedicated to the highest level of excellence in teaching. Faculty listing by department: Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media Strings, Harp, and Guitar ... Faculty Chairs and Program Coordinators The primary Community Education Division faculty members are Instructors, who are our resident, professional teachers. A group of leadership faculty members, supported by the endowment of the Jack L. Frank Fund, are designated as Frank Instructors , indicated in the following listing by italic print CED also offers a limited number of lessons with Interns, who are graduate students at the Eastman School of Music, teaching for us under the close supervision and guidance of senior faculty. In the following roster, Interns are indicated by *I. Eastman Collegiate faculty members frequently teach CED students as well. Some of these are listed below; their names are indicated by *C. Other collegiate teachers, not included in our roster, may also be available to instruct CED students. For further information about studying with collegiate faculty members through the CED, please call our office.
Rochester Review University Of Rochester teacher, Frederick Fennell '37, '39 (ma), '88 (HNR A trombonist, bass trombonist,and pianist who has CD contains all commissions, including one from Sam adler. http://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V64N2/cn-east.html
Extractions: - Select a Section - Living at the College Learning at the College Admission to the College Athletics Eastman School of Music School of Medicine and Dentistry School of Nursing Simon School Warner School About Us Graduate Studies Information Technology Services Libraries Medical Center Memorial Art Gallery Research Strong Health System Working at the University Directory Index Contact University Events Calendar News Giving Graduate Eastman Medicine Nursing In Memoriam Class Acts Donald Stauffer '42 (MM) was the commander of the U.S. Navy Band and has received more academic credentials than any other U.S. military band conductor. He was instrumental in recruiting the band's first female players and formed several Navy Band Specialty Units. Donald Stauffer (MM) (see '41). The first Raymond Shiner Jazz Award, in honor of woodwind studio musician Shiner, who died in 1999, was presented to Brian Wilkins, a senior at Nazareth College. The prize of $400 is intended to help facilitate private study in jazz. Mary Jeanne van Appledorn '50 (MM), '66 (PhD) sends an update. She received her 22nd consecutive American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Award on June 10, 2001. Her Rhapsody for violin and orchestra had its world premiere under the direction of Charles Rex, associate concertmaster for the New York Philharmonic, November 18 and 19, 2000, in Reading, Pa. She also completed her
A Composers Index adler, Larry; adler, Richard; adler, Samuel (AD ler) (manheim Morhange ( 30 NOV 1813 1888)FR=pianist-Comp Julian; ANDERSON, Leroy (leh ROY) (Cambridge, ma, 29 JUN http://www.geocities.com/musiclassical/composers/a.html
Extractions: aMUSIClassical directory A B C D ... Z Aa, Michel van der Aagaard Nilsen, Torstein AARON, Pietro (c.1480-c.1550) Aav, Evald ABACO, Evaristo Felice dall' (Verona, 1675 - Munich, 1742) IT=Comp-V (father) ABACO, Giuseppe Clemens Ferdinand dall' (Brussels, 1709 - Verona, 1805)It=Cel-Comp (son) ABBA-CORNAGLIA, Pietro (Alessandria, Piedmont, 1851 - Alessandria, 1894) It ABBATINI, Antonio Maria (Tiferno, c. 1598 - Tiferno, 1679 It Abazis, Theo Abdel-Wahab, Mohammed
The Southerner | Summer Southern Sounds First, a showman named adler Cox Then her favorite pianist, Jesse Crump She didn'thave the experience of ma Rainey, and she wasn't nearly as beautiful as Bessie http://www.southerner.net/v2n2_2000/sounds1.html
Extractions: H er gravestone in New Gray Cemetery on Western Avenue in Knoxville, Tenn. is so low and small you don't notice it unless you're looking carefully. Even when she was alive, it's safe to say most folks downtown about 1960 wouldn't have recognized this old black lady with cat's-eye glasses, her short graying hair parted on the side. She lived with her daughter in East Knoxville and never stepped out in front of an audience except on Sunday mornings at the Patton Street Church of God where she was a member of the choir. In that choir, she never stood out, never even soloed.
Instrumentalists: Catalog 34 adler, Larry SP 8 x l0 shot of the virtuoso harmonica This fine pianist made manyearly LP recordings much sought after YO-YO ma- SP 5 x 7 color promo shot of http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/instrument34.html
Beethoven LIFE OF CHOPIN, by adler ma FREDERICK CHOPIN genius as a pianist and through http://www.apcmusic.homestead.com/beethoven.html
Extractions: For pianists and lovers of piano music, it is impossible to escape an acquaintance with the life and works of Frederic Chopin, who was perhaps the greatest composer of piano music during the Romantic era of the Nineteenth Century. In a relatively short lifetime, Chopin composed an amazing quantity of music, any beautiful piano music, but also because of his rather unconventional relationship with the French novelist, Aurore Dudevant, who published her novels using the pseudonym, George Sand. While Chopin's star is brighter than ever as a composer, the fame of George Sand as a writer has faded to a degree. However, the story of their life together is a truly fascinating tale for adult readers to research. And the several biographies of Chopin discuss their relationship in detail. Frederic Francois Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, a village six miles from Warsaw, Poland on February 22, 1810 as the son of a French father and a Polish mother. Chopin first studied the piano at the Warsaw Conservatory of Music, and he was quite proficient on that instrument by his early teens. He played his first public concert at age seven, and he was known outside of Poland as a published composer by age fifteen, after several years of study in composition and music theory in Warsaw. Chopin first achieved fame as a child prodigy in Poland, and a few of his works were published in Warsaw as early as 1817, when he was only eight years old. He continued to compose throughout his student years, but only a handful of these works were printed in Polish editions that were not widely distributed and are now quite rare. When Chopin attained prominence in Paris during the early 1830s, he allowed a few of his early works (the Rondos, Op. 1 and Op. 5) to be reissued by French, German, and English publishers, but he made no further effort to revive the other music he had composed before 1828. These works languished in manuscript until after his death and have been trickling into print from widely scattered sources ever since.
APC Music Society- Liszt Liszt 18111886 Author adler ma -THE ACHIEVEMENTS the greatest pianist of the http://www.apcmusic.homestead.com/lisztproject.html
Extractions: THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF LISZT Franz Liszt was the founder of the solo-piano recital, the greatest pianist of the 19th century, and an important composer in the Romantic Period of musical development. He innovated musical harmony by using chromatic chords and innovated composition form in his technique of thematic transformation. THE LIFE OF LISZT Liszt was born on October 22, 1811 in the Hungarian village of Raiding. He took piano lessons from Carl Czerny, theory lessons from Antonio Salieri, and studied composition with Anton Reicha. At the age of 12, he moved with his family to Paris, where he started to pave the way for his future career as a pianist. In 1847, Liszt met the Russian Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein who became his closest friend and patron. He became the music director at the ducal court of Weimar, where he gave performances of his own works and those of his contemporaries. Liszt departed from Weimar in 1861 to study theology in Rome. After 1871, he continued to compose and taught music. He died on July 31, 1886 in Bayreuth, Germany.
National Council On The Humanities A composer and pianist, Hertz is the cofounder books curriculum advocates RobertHutchins and Mortimer adler. is from Pepperdine University, and his ma and Ph http://www.neh.fed.us/whoweare/council.html
