Dick Contino is remembered today for his performances in notoriously (and, a single might add more, enjoyably) bad films such as for example Daddy-O (1959) as well as the Beat Era (1960). But also for around three years, from 1948 until 1951, Contino was a superstar attraction being a musician, …

An obscure band which has nonetheless attracted interest from record enthusiasts (even more for the actual fact of their obscurity than some other reason), Agape was a hippie-era psychedelic very difficult rock act which used the music of youngsters rebellion to pass on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Fred Caban …

Martti Talvela had a Wagnerian bass tone of voice of uncommon power and richness. He was mentioned for his expressive legato performing, and exceptional concentrate of firmness. He also dominated the operatic stage by his pure size: He was an enormous man, standing up six feet eight and weighing around …

Although G.F. Fitz-Gerald continues to be making music because the 1960s, he’s released only one recording under his personal name, 1970’s Mouseproof. This is a time when major brands were more likely to green-light ridiculously uncommercial albums than anytime before or since, and Mouseproof certainly keeps its own for the …

Melbourne music group the Sharp began using cover versions of rockabilly music, with Allan Catlin in lead vocals and dual bass, Charlie Rooke in guitar, and Danny Simcic in drums. Simcic also used TRUE TO LIFE, whose agreement with BMG avoided him from sticking to the Clear, who agreed upon …

Hugo Wolf, a local of Windischgraz (now Slovenjgradec, Slovenia), in the Austro-Hungarian province of Styria, was created on March 13, 1860 and died on Feb 22, 1903, three weeks before his 43rd birthday — like Schubert, German music’s first great lieder composer, of tertiary syphilis. Like Schumann, the various other …

St. John Koukouzeles was the maïstor (supreme professional of music) from the Greek Byzantine sacred chant. His provided name was Papadopoulos and he was created in Macedonia, most likely the son of the priest; his mom was Slavic. Orphaned young, Koukouzeles transferred to Constantinople, and his great voice earned him …

Students of Pitzler, Heinichen and Kauffmann Forster acceded to positions in Merseburg (planing a trip to Dresden and Prague where he met Fux, Caldara and Conti), Rudolstadt and perhaps Sonderhausen. He constructed over 300 bits of music but just a equivalent few can definitiely end up being related to him …

Among the leading numbers of eighteenth hundred years People from france music, Gossec was a versatile and prolific composer — particularly of instrumental music, while exemplified by his symphonies and string quartets. He enlarged the expressive features from the orchestra, counting on his harmonic creativity and feeling of sound consistency; …

One of many figures in the first background of the transverse flute, composer and performer Johann Joachim Quantz being a youngsters had the capability to understand nearly any device. Only past due in his advancement did he focus on the flute, a musical instrument that would business lead him to …