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K-Ximbinho was a noted saxophonist, an associate of Severino Araújo’s Orquestra Tabajara, Fon-Fon’s orchestra, Sete de Ouro, as well as the Orquestra Sinfônica Nacional (of Rádio MEC). Being a composer, he was perhaps one of the most contemporary creators from the choro idiom, being truly a pioneer of its modernization …

b. Nigel Maslyn Jones, 26 June 1950, Dudley, Warwickshire, Britain. Jones began playing guitar, aswell as composing poetry and music, when just 14 years of age. When he still left college, in 1969, he transferred to the Route Islands to function for Gerald Durrell and came back towards the mainland …

A singer and songwriter most widely known as innovator of alt country-rockers the Damnwells, Alex Dezen in addition has released solo materials and co-written tracks for famous brands Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson, as well as the Veronicas. THE BRAND NEW York City indigenous shaped the Damnwells in 2001, performing as …

b. June Mary Gough, 26 June 1929, Damaged Hill, New South Wales, Australia, d. 24 January 2005, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Acquiring piano and performing lessons from early years as a child, Bronhill earned a performing competition in 1950. Knowing that her skill needed advanced teaching the folks of …

One of the Italian baritones whose vocal endowment made them veritable lions among performers, Riccardo Stracciari differed in timbre in the equally celebrated Titta Ruffo. If Ruffo’s tone of voice seemed to have already been ensemble from bronze, Stracciari’s was swathed in ermine from its significant bottom level register to …

In the four decades following the departure of Feodor Chaliapin in 1919, two Russian basses dominated the stage at Moscow’s mighty Bolshoi. Tag Reizen, high and elegant, whose wonderful instrument acquired a Slavic advantage relatively softer than most, acquired but one rival. Alexander Pirogov, commanding and effective, owned a tone …

Though French-born, soprano Gina Cigna was of Italian lineage and enjoyed her initial successes in Italy. Possessed of a big tone of voice (critics still issue whether it had been a spinto excess weight instrument or a complete dramatic), she manifested a searing strength in her stage shows, not infrequently …

Richard Crooks began singing being a boy soprano in his regional church. The famous contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink noticed the youthful Crooks at a functionality of Mendelssohn’s Elijah and foresaw his guarantee; soon regional choirmaster Sydney H. Bourne started formal voice schooling with him. With Globe Battle I’s outbreak in 1917, …

Adept at performing both serious functions and lighter music, Basil Cameron was well-grounded in violin technique before he used the baton. Although he was initially identified as the first choice of a reputable municipal orchestra at an British vacation resort, he soon fascinated the interest of many celebrated music artists …

Leopold Antonin Kozeluch was a well-known composer and music pedagogue in his period who produced many functions involving piano, including concertos, chamber functions and single compositions. But his result also encompassed a considerable number of functions for orchestra as well as for vocal/choral causes, as well for the theatre, though …