Tag Archives: 1930s – 1980s

Aniceto Menezes is definitely the best improviser in the annals from the Carioca samba. As typical among the historical sambistas, he documented inadequate, debuting in 1965 around the LP Quem Samba Fica, which interpreted “Dora” (folklore), made by radioman Adelzon Alves. He also documented O Partido Alto de Aniceto e …

Polish-born pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski performed his last recital at age 99, somewhat greater than a year before his death in 1993. Although his documenting career only dates back to 1936, the customs of playing he displayed are much more than that, dating back again to the early Intimate period. He …

Despite the fact that Helen Oakley Dance didn’t play a musical instrument, her contributions like a promoter, historian, and record maker were just mainly because important as any kind of musician’s. Dance was created in Toronto, Canada, to a economically privileged family members. Her first intro to jazz was when …

Compiling an entire set of the recordings this magnificent guitarist performed on may possibly become easier than getting either his provided name or surname spelled consistently in greater than a dozen sources. Within the previous count number, uses of “Allen” appear to outnumber “Alan” somewhat — even though the shorter …

An excellent Dixieland trombonist (although hardly ever a major participant), Big Key Russell Moore had an extended and busy profession. A member from the American Indian Pima tribe, Moore transferred to Blue Isle, IL in 1924 and examined music along with his uncle, playing trumpet, piano, drums and french horn …

An important shape in twentieth hundred years chamber music, Felix Galimir is appreciated as very much for his function as instructor and mentor for his very own performances. Especially after he shifted to america in 1938, he led several years of young music artists through the mysteries and delights of …

A dramatic soprano using a tone of voice of mammoth proportions, Eva Turner, though scarcely neglected in her native nation, enjoyed a lot of her greatest successes overseas. Most closely discovered with the name function in Turandot (which she initial sang in Brescia just a month following its premiere), she …

Artur Balsam (1906-1994) was an extremely versatile pianist who was simply given birth to in Poland and became established while an accompanist for Yehudi Menhuin on the 1932 tour of america. After becoming hounded out of European countries through the Nazi period, Balsam resolved in NY and started both teaching …

Lutoslawski was the leading progressive number in Polish music of the next half from the twentieth hundred years. Created in Warsaw, he demonstrated a fantastic musical talent young, with his 1st compositions dating from 1922. He analyzed piano, violin, and structure (with Witold Maliszewski, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov), graduating from …

b. Adam David Nicholson, 12 Apr 1917, Monroe, Louisiana, USA, d. 27 July 1991, LA, California, USA. Nicholson discovered to try out the piano in cathedral from age five. He afterwards emigrated towards the western coast where, inspired by the favorite black recording performers of your day, he developed a …