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Although a good trumpet soloist, John Nesbitt was even more significant as an arranger during his fairly brief life. He obtained experience using Lillian Jones’ Jazz Hounds and Amanda Randolph. Nesbitt was connected with McKinney’s Natural cotton Pickers from 1925-31 (its important years). He was on all the Natural cotton …

Richard Storrs Willis was a significant composer and publisher of hymns (both sacred and secular) in nineteenth century America. He’s the author of “Fairest Lord Jesus,” and his hymn tune “Carol” may be the melody to which we sing “It DISCOVERED the Midnight Crystal clear.” The sibling of poet Nathaniel …

Daniel Pinkham has generated his exclusive “audio” from types of energetic, propulsive rhythms, and excellent polyphony, while preserving a complicated, appealing, and contemporary harmonic sensibility that thoroughly fits his often refined religious subject matter. Pinkham gained his B.A. and M.A. at Harvard College or university, where he researched composition, performing, …

Farrar was among the early superstars from the Metropolitan Opera, having a glamorous tone of voice richly matched by her physical existence, and her insistence that she had not been a vocalist but a performing celebrity. Her recordings had been widely well-known, and she also produced many silent films, like …

Although composer and producer David Blume launched his career being a jazz artist, he later on enjoyed success in pop and film music, and spent over 3 decades accompanying his folksinger wife Carolyn Hester in tour and in record. Delivered in Boston in 1931, Blume began monitoring traditional piano at …

Chanler studied in the brand new York Institute of Music Artwork, with Bloch on the Cleveland Institute, in Oxford School, and with Boulanger in Paris. He was a critic for The Boston Herald and trained on the Peabody Conservatory with the Longy College in Cambridge, MA. His compositions are polytonal …

An amateur musician, this outstanding scientist, computer printer, and American statesman even so made significant efforts towards the art. Evidently self-taught, Franklin performed the harp, electric guitar, cup dulcimer, and his very own invention, the cup harmonica (aka the glassychord), a mechanized edition of the historic musical eyeglasses (that have …

Joined up with by his City Defeat Bandand playing a distinctive wind synthesizer known as the Lyricon, Charles “Prince Charles” Alexander released a small number of wild synth-funk albums — 1981’s Gang Battle, 1982’s Rock Killers, and 1984’s Battle Zone — that attained more recognition in the U.K. than in …

Aaron Copland described his friend and colleague Irving Good as owned by what he called the American “Stravinsky college,” and even a lot of Fine’s early function shows the impact of Stravinsky aswell as Hindemith. A tonal vocabulary that is essentially dissonant characterizes these early functions. In later functions, like …

Carl Ruggles was created to a fresh England farming family members and received his 1st musical training from his mom, who died when he was 14. Ruggles analyzed violin with Walter Spaulding and Felix Winternitz, theory with Josef Claus, and structure with Harvard educator John Knowles Paine. In 1899-1901 Ruggles …