Since its inception in 1971, the Empire Brass has continued to be virtually unrivaled among brass quintets for sheer virtuosity and diversity of repertoire. Each one of the ensemble’s five users — trumpeter and founding member Rolf Smedvig, trumpeter Marc Brian Reese, French hornist Greg Miller, trombonist Tag Hetzler, and …

b. Robert Field Rounseville, 25 March 1914, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA, d. 6 August 1974, NEW YORK, NY, USA. After schooling as an operatic tenor, Rounseville sang in the chorus or performed small roles within a succession of Broadway productions, many of which were strikes: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Babes …

Musical theater songwriter and librettist Jonathan Larson was created on Feb 4, 1960, in Support Vernon, NY, and was raised in White Plains, NY, where he analyzed piano and music theory. He examined acting and started composing musicals at Adelphi School, that he graduated with honors in 1982. His initial …

Singer/celebrity Lena Horne’s major job was nightclub entertaining, an occupation she pursued successfully all over the world for a lot more than 60 years, from your 1930s towards the 1990s. Together with her golf club function, she also managed a documenting career that extended from 1936 to 2000 and brought …

b. Russell McKinley Crouse, 20 Feb 1893, Findlay, Ohio, USA, d. 3 Apr 1966, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Crouse’s initial essential Broadway musical humor function was as co-librettist for The Gang’s All Right here (1931), nonetheless it was 3 years afterwards, when manufacturer Vinton Freedley connected him with Howard Lindsay …

b. Victor Frederick Moore, 24 Feb 1876, Hammonton, NJ, USA, d. 23 July 1962, East Islip, NY, USA. Getting started in vaudeville being a comedian, Moore appreciated a fair way of measuring success for a lot more than two decades prior to making his discovery. He made several performances on …

“The essential essentials of accurate dance music are melody, simplicity, and consistent tempo. Sign up for these three entities jointly and you possess music that’s fine to dance to and satisfying to hear,” noticed Victor Silvester — he do specifically that and marketed 75 million information over a documenting career …

Through the ’40s and ’50s, lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II and composer Richard Rodgers had been probably the most successful composing group on Broadway, composing several long-running demonstrates had been eventually converted to movie musicals. Hammerstein was also the next most prolific lyricist from the 20th hundred years, second and then …

Gene Kelly was never extremely popular as a vocalist, despite the fact that he did slice information and was observed in film roles where he sang — rather, it had been his function onscreen like a dancer, choreographer, and movie director that allowed him to exert an integral influence on …

Born in Feb 1934 in Dale, Indiana, Florence Henderson sang and danced from early years as a child, going to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NY from age 17. She got a bit-part function in Joshua Logan’s Desire You Were Right here (1952), which brought an give to …