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b. Harold Smith Prince, 30 January 1928, NY, USA. A recognized director and manufacturer – the supreme Broadway showman – whose profession has lasted for most years. ‘Hal’ Prince offered his theatrical apprenticeship in the past due 40s and early 50s using the esteemed writer, director, and manufacturer George Abbott. …

This talented reed player shares the same birthday as Joseph Jarman, another modern jazzman whose taste in axes includes low-speaking horns such as for example bass clarinet and baritone saxophone. It’s the last mentioned horn that Jay Cameron is most beneficial known for, although he also documented on both bass …

Nicolas Flagello was among the last American composers to respect music as an individual moderate for emotional and religious manifestation and adopt a vocabulary rooted in the forms, methods, and aesthetics from the European classical custom. This view, extremely unfashionable through the 1950s and ’60s, when musical structure was dominated …

b. Dorothy Agnes Donnelly, 28 January 1880, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 3 January 1928, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Donnelly’s early theatrical function was being a dramatic celebrity, showing up in Madame X (1910) and additional plays. Immediately after this, nevertheless, she flipped her considerable innovative talents to composing music …

b. 1928, USA, d. 24 July 1995, NY, USA. A composer, lyricist and songwriter, Dvorkin released the majority of her music beneath the pseudonym Judy Spencer. She appreciated a mixed and prolific profession, which started among the songwriters for the kids’s television program Captain Kangaroo. Most likely her most widely …

Three-time Tony-award-winning songwriter (Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, Annie) Charles Strouse may remember attending displays young along with his parents and getting awestruck with all the current glamour. The author of “Placed on a Content Encounter” (from Bye Bye Birdie), “A WHOLE LOT of Living to accomplish,” and “A long time …

Main influences: Teddy Wilson, Mel Powell, Ellis Larkins, and Duke Ellington. Like a precocious 15-year-old, Gene DiNovi worked well in 1943 with bandleader Henry Jerome, who was simply in those days getting ready to convert his Hal Kemp-styled dance music group into a contemporary bop ensemble. DiNovi’s changeover from golf …

A vintage bop pianist and a author of haunting melodies, Freddie Redd has already established an episodic profession, with high points accompanied by periods where he maintained a minimal profile. Over time in the Military (1946-1949), Redd caused drummer Johnny Mills and in NY used Tiny Grimes (with whom he …

Tom Lehrer was among comedy’s great paradoxes — a respected Harvard mathematics teacher by time, he also ranked one of the foremost tune satirists from the postwar period, saving vicious, twisted parodies of popular music tendencies which proved highly influential in the “unwell comedy” revolution from the ’60s. Despite an …

Among Walt Disney’s most successful songwriting groups was that of brothers Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman who developed the music noticed in Mary Poppins, The Jungle Reserve, and so many more Oscar-nominated ratings for children’s movies. After participating in Bard University, the duo began writing nation and rock music. …