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Amy Shuard

Amy Shuard wielded a dramatic soprano of fearless brightness, solid and secure in its top register and guided from the singer’s determined and forthright character. Celebrated on her behalf expert in Verdi and Janácek functions, Shuard steadily improved the breadth and depth of her repertory, eventually learning to be a …

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Stephen Dodgson

Stephen Dodgson was a Uk composer, son from the symbolist painter John Dodgson, and a distant relative of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). He went to Berkhamsted College in Hertfordshire and Stowe College in Buckinghamshire, before providing in the Royal Navy in Globe War II. Following a war, he analyzed …

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Charles Villiers Stanford

Sir Charles Stanford continues to be called the main single element in the renaissance of British music through the past due nineteenth and early twentieth decades; indeed, also if one had been to disregard Stanford’s own huge catalog of compositions, it might be impossible to disregard the pronounced impact Stanford’s …

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Cyril Ornadel

b. 2 Dec 1924, London, Britain. A composer, arranger and conductor for the theater and movies, Ornadel researched piano, dual bass, and structure in the Royal University of Music. He was with ENSA for some time, and later on toured European countries with the favorite vocalist Dorothy Carless. He led …

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Ron Moody

b. Ronald Moodnick, 8 January 1924, London, Britain, d. 11 June 2015, London, Britain. An achieved and versatile acting professional, singer, writer and composer, Moody nursed an ambition to become an entertainer from an extremely early age group. The desire was strengthened during his period as an accounts clerk in …

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Cecil Sharp

Although he started his career practicing regulation in Australia, Cecil Sharp would end up being the central number in the British dance and folksong revival early within the 20th century. Created in London in 1859, Clear went to Uppingham and Clare University, Cambridge, and immigrated to Australia. In 1889, he’d …

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Eric Delaney

b. 22 Might 1924, London, Britain. Delaney originated from a musical family members and learnt to try out the piano while still at college. He switched towards the drums at age 10, and analyzed tympani on the Guildhall College of Music in London during 1946/7. After playing in various other …

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Lionel Monckton

b. John Lionel Alexander Monckton, 18 Dec 1861, London, Britain, d. 15 Sept 1924, London, Britain. The boy of Sir John and Woman Monckton, Lionel prepared a profession in regulations but began composing music while at Oxford College or university. Some success was included with efforts to Western End displays …

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Kenny Graham

There have been many sad reasons for having the death of Kenny Graham in 1997, among the minor tragedies being it ended his reports, previously issued at a clip of 1 per decade, in what “the millionaire Beatles” were up to. Graham’s caustic, alternately amusing and reactionary brief essays were …

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