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Clement Hambourg
Clement Hambourg (31 July 1900 – 3 February 1973) was a pianist and musical promoter, a member of the famous Hambourg musical family, who spent his working life in Canada. He began as a classical musician but became more involved in jazz after World War II. Clement (often known as Clem) was the son of Michael Hambourg. He was born in London and trained there as a pianist by his father. His older brothers were pianist Mark Hambourg (born 1879), the violinist Jan Hambourg (born 1882) and the cellist Boris Hambourg (born 1885). The family settled in Toronto in 1910, and Clement made his pianistic debut there in 1925. He played in Canada with the Hambourg Trio and as a soloist while teaching at the Hambourg Conservatory. In 1928 he married his first wife, the writer Kathleen FitzGerald, and their son Klemi was born that year. After the war, and following his marriage to second wife Ruth Nadine, he founded the House of Hambourg, an after hours bar and music studio for teaching and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hambourg
Michael Hambourg (12 July 1855 – 18 June 1916) was a Russian-born Canadian pianist and music educator. He was the teacher of several prominent pianists; including his sons, Clement and Mark Hambourg. He worked as a piano pedagogue at conservatories in Russia, the United Kingdom, and Canada during his lifetime. In 1911, he co-founded the Hambourg Conservatory of Music in Toronto with his sons, the cellist Boris Hambourg and the violinist Jan Hambourg. He served as the director of that institution until his death in 1916. Life and career Born in Yaroslav, Russian Empire, Michael Hambourg was trained as a pianist by Nikolai Rubinstein at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from which he graduated in 1879. He then taught piano in Voronezh until joining the faculty of the Moscow Philharmonic Conservatory (now the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts) in 1888. During this time he was the teacher of his son, the pianist Mark Hambourg, and in 1890 the Hambourg family traveled to London for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Brubeck
David Warren Brubeck (; December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck's work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasting rhythms, Metre (music), meters, tonality, tonalities, and combining different styles and genres, like classic, jazz, and blues. Born in Concord, California, Brubeck was drafted into the US Army, but was spared from combat service when a International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Red Cross show he had played at became a hit. Within the US Army, Brubeck formed one of the first racial integration, racially diverse bands. In 1951, he formed the Dave Brubeck Quartet, which kept its name despite shifting personnel. The most successful—and prolific—lineup of the quartet was the one between 1958 and 1968. This lineup, in addition to Brubeck, featured saxophonist Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello. A U.S. Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Classical Musicians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Male Classical Pianists
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender, in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evolved independently at different times and in different lineages, an example of convergent evolution. The repeated pattern is sexual reproduction in isogamous species with two or more mating types with gametes of identical form and behavior (but different at the molecular level) to anisogamous species with game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Classical Pianists
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 1972 Miami Dolphins season, Miami Dolphins defeated the 1972 Washington Redskins season, Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, with the Dolphins ending the season a perfect 17-0. This marked the first and only time that an NFL team has had a perfect undefeated season, an achievement the team holds to this day. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. * January 17 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines. * January 22 ** ''Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman, The Sunshine Showdown'': George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica. ** A Royal Jorda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900 Births
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2100. Summary Political and military The year 1900 was the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Two days into the new year, the U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open Door Policy regarding China, advocating for equal access for all nations to the Chinese market. The Galveston hurricane would become the deadliest natural disaster in United States history, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people, mostly in and near Galveston, Texas, as well as leaving 10,000 people homeless, destroying 7,000 buildings of all kinds in Galveston. As of 2025, it remains the fourth deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. An ongoing Boxer Rebellion in China escalates with multiple attacks by the Boxers on Chines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterborough, Ontario
Peterborough ( ) is a city on the Otonabee River in Ontario, Canada, about 125 kilometres (78 miles) northeast of Toronto. According to the 2021 Census, the population of the City of Peterborough was 83,651. The population of the Peterborough Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), which includes the surrounding Townships of Selwyn, Ontario, Selwyn, Cavan Monaghan, Otonabee-South Monaghan, and Douro-Dummer, was 128,624 in 2021. In 2021, Peterborough ranked 32nd among the country's 41 census metropolitan areas according to the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, CMA in Canada. The current mayor of Peterborough is Jeff Leal. Peterborough is known as the gateway to the Kawartha lakes (Ontario), Kawarthas, "cottage country", a large recreational region of the province. It is named in honour of Peter Robinson (1785–1838), Peter Robinson, an early Canadian politician who oversaw the first major immigration to the area. The city is the seat of Peterborough Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nic Gotham
Nicholas Ivor Gotham, known as Nic Gotham, (27 September 1959 – 25 July 2013) was a Canadian jazz saxophonist and composer. His 1992 chamber opera, '' Nigredo Hotel'', won two Dora Awards and was nominated for the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Biography Life and career Gotham was born in Eastleigh, England and grew up in Ancaster, Ontario where his family emigrated when he was four years old. He studied at the University of Western Ontario and at York University, Toronto under the saxophonist David Mott and composer James Tenney. In the mid-1980s he played with Fred Stone's improvising ensemble (known informally as Freddie's Band). He went on to form his own ensembles which were active in the Canadian jazz scene during the late 1980s and 1990s, including his first band "Gotham City", "Hemispheres" (a fifteen piece "big band" specialising in jazz and new music), and "40 Fingers" (an improvising saxophone quartet). In 1988 Gotham approached Canadian playwright Ann-Mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baņuta Rubess
Baņuta Rubess (born 1956) is a Latvian-Canadian theatre director and playwright. She co-wrote ''This is For You, Anna'' as a member of the Anna Project. Rubess was a co-recipient of the 1988 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for children's theatre for her play ''Thin Ice''. Early life Rubess was born in 1956 in Toronto to Latvian parents. She spent six years living in Germany as a child. Rubess graduated with a BA honours in history and drama from Queen's University at Kingston, Queen's University in 1977. In 1978, she received a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford. Rubess completed a doctorate of modern history at St Antony's College, Oxford, St Antony's College in 1982. Career In 1982, Rubess co-founded the 1982 Theatre Company in London, England. Rubess was a member a theatre collective called The Midnight Hags, founded by Mary Ann Lambooy. The collective created a piece called ''Burning Times'' which premiered in August 1983 at The Theatre Centre. ''Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here Come The 70s
''Here Come the 70s'', also rendered as ''Here Come the Seventies'', was a Canadian documentary television series seen nationally on CTV from 1970 to 1973 normally on Thursday nights at 9:30 (Eastern). It was sold internationally under the title ''Towards the Year 2000'' and in French as ''Vers l'an 2000''. The programs were produced by Philip S. Hobel and Douglas J. Leiterman, who previously produced ''The Fabulous Sixties'' series for CTV. "Communications – The Wired World" was the first episode to air, on 17 September 1970. The series had a unique opening scene featuring a nude blonde girl, seen from behind, walking from the beach into the surf until she disappears under the surface to swim underwater. This opening title had various clips of different thought provoking scenes superimposed over the model, of people and new technologies of the time, so as to distract from the nudity which was provocative for early 1970s Canadian television. Toronto electronic music group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
