Alessandro Cicognini was, for twenty years after Globe Battle II, the solitary most influential tone of voice in film music in Italy, as the author of choice for Italy’s most successful postwar filmmaker, Vittorio De Sica. Qualified as a traditional musician and composer at Milan’s Conservatory of Music, he found …

A poet and critic who chronicled and consorted with adventurous performers of his period, Guillaume Apollinaire was himself not entirely of this tumultuous age: his personal writings told of things ancient, long lasting, and eternal. His excitement for the task of his contemporaries offers about any of it a bemused …

b. 14 March 1922, Liberty, Mississippi, USA. Guitarist, harmonica participant and vocalist Rodgers, without in the 1st airline flight of blues documenting artists, is obviously one with a unique moniker, that of the Midnight Cowboy. This nickname was presented with to him when he helped to provide a leg, having …

b. 28 Feb 1903, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 25 July 1986, LA, California, USA. A recognized film movie director with a complicated design and flair, especially in the usage of colour as well as the innovative filming of the very most exquisite dance sequences. Minnelli is normally credited, in cooperation …

b. Archibald Alexander Leach, 18 January 1904, Horfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Britain, d. 29 November 1986, Davenport, Iowa, USA. As a kid, Leach became a member of a troupe of itinerant entertainers and was still in his teenagers if they travelled to the united states where he battled in vaudeville while …

Thomas Schippers was a talented American conductors and a specific champion from the music of Samuel Barber. He performed at a general public piano recital at age six and was a chapel organist when he was 14. He continuing his piano research in the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia …

Conductor Alberto Erede was popular for his opera shows in Europe as well as the United Sates, especially through the 1930s before 1960s. He started his musical research for the piano and cello. He researched composition in the Milan Conservatory before making a decision to spend his energies to performing. …

Adelaide Hall is one particular forgotten singers, prominent between your two Globe Wars but overlooked in the years that followed. That she was among the best black performers of her period makes her insufficient reputation or representation in the record catalog specifically frustrating, It’s a lot more amazing when one …

Nation & western singer/songwriter Tim Ryan was created in 1964. He spent his years as a child on the ranch in St. Ignatius, Montana, not really definately not the Flathead Indian Booking. Ryan’s family can be proof the “great American melting container.” His bloodline can be a diverse combination of …

Though he spent the majority of his formative years in the grim surroundings of 1980s Belfast, singer/songwriter Foy Vance’s musical vision may be the item of a completely different type of nervous tension — the cross-racial friction, harmony, and disharmony that gave rise to jazz, blues, and soul in the …