Tag Archives: 1940s – 1970s

An inventor and composer, Hugh Le Caine spent his profession in the shadows. A laboratory rat, he pioneered many useful concepts in digital musical instruments during his years of just work at the Country wide Analysis Council of Canada (NRC). His Electronic Sackbut (1945) is currently named the first-ever voltage-controlled …

The stentorian dramatic tenor of Mario del Monaco was heard across the world through the 1950s and 1960s. While frequently berated by critics for his unsubtle vocal creation, del Monaco was a preferred of viewers who valued his power and sincerity of strategy while tackling the heaviest functions in the …

The vocal talents of Birgit Nilsson were first recognized when she begun to sing in her church choir. She researched tone of voice with Ragnar Blennow in Bastad and later on in the Royal Music Academy Stockholm with Joseph Hislop and Arne Sunnegärdh. She produced her opera debut at Stockholm …

Hilde Gueden (given birth to Hulda Geiringer) was among the amazing youthful Mozart/Strauss singers who emerged from Vienna soon after WWII and who dominated Mozart overall performance well in to the 1960s. Gueden’s substantial ease in the very best register destined her to sing the lighter tasks of Richard Strauss …

In no way a favourite of spelling educators, vocalist Rae Harrison recorded “Git Wid It” and not just “Like Me” but “Me As well” in the first ’70s. The obscure songs are interesting not merely as throwbacks to a youthful style of documenting predating rock and roll & move but …

The principal author of versions of Brazilian rock, composer Fred Jorge had his works recorded by important interpreters both abroad (Ornella Vanoni, Sacha Distel, Teddy Reno, Connie Francis) and in Brazil (Leny Eversong, Caubi Peixoto, Altemar Dutra, Carlos Gonzaga, Ronnie Von, Sérgio Reis, and Antônio Marcos). His 1st composition to …

Like Alan and John Lomax, the field recordings of couple group Anne and Frank Warner could have an enormous effect on the folk revival in the past due ’50s and early ’60s. “The Warners had been one of the primary to perceive just what a treasure place concealed in these …

The Chicago pianist may be the youngest inside a triumvirate of jazz music artists named Willie Jones, Willie Jones Jr., and Willie Jones III, who are in fact not linked to one another. His 1920 birthday in the center from the Mississippi Delta makes the pianist the “older” from the …

Cellist Leonard Joseph Rose was an associate of the Russian family members who have had immigrated to the U.S. from Kiev. His dad was an novice cellist who offered him his 1st lessons within the device. Rose’s formal research began following the family members had shifted to Florida, in the …

Like John Philip Sousa, army bandmaster Julius Herrmann’s 1st device was the violin, which he studied in the Vienna Conservatory. By 1910, he previously joined the forerunner of the initial Hoch und Deutschmeister Music group (which identifies itself as an “Orchester,” though it is usually a armed service band device) …