Even though the Metropolitan Opera didn’t have Ebe Stignani, it had Bruna Castagna, another mezzo soprano of voluminous voice and uncommon agility who similarly succeeded as Bizet’s Carmen despite a significantly less than exemplary number. Toscanini involved Castagna both in her indigenous Italy and once again for performances in the …

Born right into a noted lineage of American music artists and composers, this composer, musicologist, and educator, who have initiated the analysis now known as music understanding, was a self-described “music humanist” and among the ardently conservative college generally known as the “Boston classicists.” He frequently defended the “common man’s” …

Ezio Flagello was a colorful and popular American bass through the mid-’50s to 1987, the entire year of his pension. His popularity owed much, obviously, to his many effective performances for the world’s operatic phases, but he also made an appearance on several well-known tv shows and in the 1974 …

Bruno Walter helped form the very substance of interpretive design among conductors. He was created Bruno Schlesinger to the average, middle-class Jewish family members. His skill was found early, and at age group nine he came into the Stern Conservatory to review piano, producing his debut at 13 using the …

Frank Wilson (b. 1942) was raised in Southern Central LA in a residence using a piano and musically gifted siblings. His dad, Thomas, maintained the Velvetones, and Frank’s sister Ruth wedded among the members. Younger Wilsons — Thomas, Frank, Henry, Vance, and Virginia — produced the Wil-Sons, a tranquility group …

From Southern California, this obscure five-man, one-woman pop-folk-rock group issued a self-titled album on Liberty in 1966. Through the sounds of items (and the appearance of the group within the cover), these were a pop-oriented folk group hastily adapting towards the folk-rock trend, using their white breads folk roots displaying …

Wilhelm Schuchter was one particular prodigiously talented German conductors who have had the misfortune to reside in a time filled up with geniuses in the podium: Furtwängler, Walter, Abendroth, von Karajan, Krauss, Böhm, Knappertsbusch, Kempe, Schmidt-Isserstedt, and Klemperer. In such business, he never really had an opportunity to transfer to …

The bassoon is definitely an extraordinarily expressive instrument, though it is seldom considered in the context of rock music. Even though it could be hard to envision a bassoon fitted along with mainstream rock and roll designs, the fringe group of avant-prog can be a different tale altogether, which is …

Rising out of Lancashire, England, where they initially produced in 1978 as Heavy Thunder, then Slayer, the group that could become Dragonslayer began like the majority of future New Wave of British ROCK hopefuls: by shunning the escalating punk rock and roll scene to pay music by their true heroes …

Tony Argo’s among jazz’s uncommon accordionists, though he also takes on as much, or even more piano. Types of both are presented on his 1960 recording Jazz Argossy which also offers superb drumming from Charlie Persip. An excellent bop pianist, his accordion sticks out due to the fact you rarely …