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When Bob Mover had his best presence in the later ’70s, he played in a method nearly the same as Lee Konitz (with whom he recorded in 1977). Mover caused Ira Sullivan when he was 16 and after shifting to NY in 1969, he freelanced on the neighborhood scene. Mover …

Composer William Finn’s musicals, specially the trilogy of displays concerning the bisexual personality Marvin (In Trousers, March from the Falsettos, and Falsettoland), excited wish among musical theatre aficionados that he was a significant songwriter for the stage along with a possible successor to Stephen Sondheim. Diverted by way of a …

b. 1893, d. 20 November 1952, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Created in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, through the early 20s, the Mal Hallett Orchestra included Toots Mondello, Andy Russo, Carl Swearingen, Expenses Carlin, Nelson Arguesso, Sam Sherman, Ollie Ahearn, Frank Guilfoyle, Larry de Laurence, Frank Frieselle, Brad Gowans, Chet Gonier, Joe Holmes, …

June Anderson became among the leading coloratura soprano singers within the 1980s, hailed as a successor to Joan Sutherland and Beverly Sills. (When she fulfilled Sutherland, the Australian diva described the very similar width of the jaws and quipped, “I’m informed the E flats are for the reason that jaw!”) …