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Conchita Supervia

A vivacious singer whose dusky tone of voice was an acquired flavor for most listeners, Conchita Supervia was an inimitable interpreter of mezzo soprano jobs in the first nineteenth hundred years repertory a long time before great bel canto revival from the 1950s. Her exceedingly fast vibrato disturbed some, but …

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William Bennett

Renowned British flutist William Bennett examined with Geoffrey Gilbert on the Guildhall School of Music and in Paris with Jean-Pierre Rampal. In 1958, he gained a medal in the Geneva International Flute Competition. From 1965, he examined with Marcel Moyse, whose radiant and expressive design he provides championed. He has …

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Edward German

Sir Edward German was probably one of the most popular British composers from the initial decade from the twentieth hundred years, renowned particularly in the areas of comic opera, incidental movie theater music, and light classical functions. He was created Edward German Jones, the next of five kids. German started …

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Gordon Beck

Beck was a self-taught musician who have left the executive world to become professional participant in Britain. He ultimately blossomed into among Europe’s finest studio room and program pianists, in a position to function efficiently in many configurations and together with any vocalist or instrumentalist. His dad was a violinist, …

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Brian Dee

b. Brian Colin Dee, 21 March 1936, London, Britain. Although he worked well for some time like a textile salesman with a respected British shop group, Dee’s center is at jazz and he 1st became a physique prominent around the London jazz picture in 1959. This is the entire year …

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John Storm Roberts

A teenage fascination for calypso and flamenco music was converted into a successful profession as a manufacturer and critic of globe music by John Surprise Roberts. A graduate of Oxford School, where he gained a qualification in world dialects, Roberts started his profession by researching albums for the paper in …

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Harry Graham

b. Jocelyn Henry Clive Graham, 23 Dec 1874, London, Britain, d. 30 Oct 1936, London, Britain. Educated at Eton University and Sandhurst, Graham became a member of the Coldstream Guards, getting aide-de-camp to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Canada. Afterwards, Graham was a journalist, author of comic verse, and librettist and …

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