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Joseph Thalken
Joseph Thalken is an American composer and pianist. Biography Joseph Thalken was raised in Southern California and was mentored early on by Lynn Murray, Margaret and Karl Kohn. He was supported by the Young Musicians Foundation and went on to study piano with Robert Weirich at Northwestern University. He has composed music for theater, including ''Was'', ''Harold & Maude'', ''Fall of ‘94'', ''Borrowed Dust'' and ''Inventions for Piano''. He has also composed music for ballet, choir, chamber ensemble, orchestra and wind ensemble. He has served as a music director or arranger for notable Broadway performers, including Julie Andrews, Liza Minnelli, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Renée Fleming, Rebecca Luker, Marin Mazzie, Liz Callaway, Sierra Boggess, Catherine Malfitano, Elizabeth Futral, Kristin Chenoweth, Polly Bergen, Michael Crawford, Howard McGillin, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Nathan Gunn and Rodney Gilfry, among others. In 2017, Thalken was commissioned by Bruce Wood Danc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyn Murray
Lyn Murray (born Lionel Breeze, August 13, 1909 – May 20, 1989) was a composer, conductor, and arranger of music for radio, film and television. Early years Born in London, Murray was the son of a violinist. Before entering a career in music, Murray was a seaman. He followed that nautical occupation with a stint as a reporter with the Philadelphia Public Ledger. He also attended the Juilliard School. Radio Murray's initial involvement with radio came in Newport News, Virginia. From 1931 to 1937, he was staff conductor and arranger at WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From there, he went to CBS, where he conducted, arranged, and composed music from 1934 to 1947. He later founded the Lyn Murray Singers, who became known throughout the United States as the featured group on CBS Radio's '' Your Hit Parade''. In the early 1940s, Murray, his orchestra and chorus were featured on ''Meet the Music'', "a Sunday evening feature paying weekly tribute to the modern song writers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moody Performance Hall
The Moody Performance Hall (formerly Dallas City Performance Hall) is a performing arts venue located in the Arts District of Downtown Dallas, Texas, USA. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) in collaboration with the Architect of Record, Corgan Associates, Inc., and constructed by thCity of Dallas the performance hall will be built in two phases. Phase I, which consists of the 750-seat proscenium theater and its support spaces, was completed in 2012. The project will be LEED Platinum. Funding for the performance hall was provided by the Citizens of Dallas through th2006 Bond Program The project team included: Design Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill SOM, an initialism of its original name Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, is a Chicago-based architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings. In 1939, they were joined by engineer ... Architect of Record: Corgan Associates, Inc. Theater Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard McKay
Richard McKay (born 1982) is an American conductor, currently serving as music director of the Dallas Chamber Symphony. Education McKay holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from the Peabody Institute, where he studied with Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar and served as assistant conductor of the Peabody orchestras and opera. He earned a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting, and a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance, from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was music director of the University Orchestra and led productions at the Butler Opera Center. McKay attended the Aspen Music Festival as a fellowship conductor and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music as an apprentice conductor under Marin Alsop, where he led the world premiere of Clint Needham's ''Radiant Nation''. He received additional training through festivals and masterclasses with conductors Kurt Masur, Larry Rachleff, Mark Gibson, Robert Spano, Neeme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis (Decca), Edward Lewis after his acquisition of a gramophone manufacturer, The Decca Gramophone Company. It set up an American subsidiary under the Decca name, which became an independent company just before the Second World War. The American spin-off became a subsidiary of MCA Inc. in 1962. Known for its technical innovations, the British parent company grew to become the second most successful recording company in Britain and celebrated fifty years of existence in 1979, shortly before being sold to PolyGram. Both Decca and its former subsidiary were subsequently acquired by Universal Music. Decca and its American spin-off both built up strong catalogues of popular music. In their first two decades their artists included Gertrude Lawrence, George Formby, Jack Hylton and Vera Lynn in Britain and Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, the Andrews Sisters and the Mills Brothers in the US. Later performers in their popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Fisher (conductor)
Rob Fisher is an American music director, conductor, arranger and pianist. He was the founding music director and conductor of the New York City Center ''Encores!'' series from 1994 to 2005. He is the leader of the Coffee Club Orchestra, which was the house band for Garrison Keillor’s radio broadcasts from 1989 to 1993. Early career and education Fisher grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, where he began taking piano lessons at age 6. He received a BA from Duke University and an MA in piano performance from American University. In 2016, Fisher received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Mansfield University. After Fisher arrived in New York City as the onstage pianist for the musical revue ''A History of the American Film'' in 1978, he worked on the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s production of the 1933 George and Ira Gershwin musical '' Let 'Em Eat Cake''—the first-ever revival of the piece. Later that year, he was a guest pianist for "By Ira... By George," a gala benefit concert a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Concert Orchestra
The BBC Concert Orchestra is a British concert orchestra based in London, one of the British Broadcasting Corporation's five radio orchestras. With around fifty players, it is the only one of the five BBC orchestras which is not a full-scale symphony orchestra. The BBC Concert Orchestra is the BBC's most populist ensemble, playing a mixture of classical music, light music and popular numbers. Its primary role is to produce music for radio broadcast, and it is the resident orchestra of the world's longest-running live music programme, '' Friday Night Is Music Night'' on BBC Radio 3. History The parent ensemble of the orchestra was the BBC Theatre Orchestra, which was formed in 1931 and based in Bedford. The orchestra also did opera work and was occasionally billed as the BBC Opera Orchestra. Stanford Robinson was the principal conductor from 1931 until 1946, but others included Walter Goehr, Spike Hughes, Harold Lowe, Mark Lubbock and Lionel Salter. In August 1949, the ensem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albany Records
Albany Records is a record label that concentrates on unconventional contemporary classical music by American composers and musicians. It was established by Peter Kermani in 1987 and is based in Albany, New York. In May 2024, Albany Records was acquired by New Hampshire-based label, PARMA Recordings. See also * List of record labels File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, ... References External linksAlbany Records official site Classical music record labels American independent record labels Companies based in Albany, New York Record labels established in 1987 Contemporary classical music 1987 establishments in New York (state) Record labels based in New York (state) {{US-record-label-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Chamber Symphony
The Dallas Chamber Symphony (DCS) is a professional, American chamber orchestra that performs in the Moody Performance Hall in the Arts District, Dallas. Founded in 2011, and led by artistic director, Richard McKay; the DCS presented its first season in 2012, and performs most of its concerts in the Moody Performance Hall. Critics have described the DCS as “extremely adroit”, “fresh” and “innovative.” The orchestra has been lauded for its film series, which pairs classic silent films with newly commissioned scores. Japanese violinist Kazuhiro Takagi is the concertmaster. Performance venues The DCS performs its main concert series in Moody Performance Hall, which opened in 2012. Designed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill LLP, with Dallas architecture firm Corgan serving as the architect of record, the center is in the heart of the Dallas Arts District. Dallas International Piano Competition The Dallas International Piano Competition took place for the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Gunn
Nathan T. Gunn (born November 26, 1970, in South Bend, Indiana) is an American operatic baritone who performs regularly around the world. He is an alumnus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he is currently a professor of voice. He has appeared in many of the world's well-known opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Pittsburgh Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, The Royal Opera in London, the Paris Opéra, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. He has also appeared at the Glyndebourne Festival near London, the Ravinia Festival near Chicago, and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York City. In 2011, Gunn was featured as a guest star in the Mormon Tabernacle C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Kohn
Karl Georg Kohn (August 1, 1926 – November 18, 2024) was an Austrian-born American composer, teacher and pianist. He taught at Pomona College for more than 40 years. Biography Kohn began playing the piano as a child in Vienna; after he emigrated to the United States at the age of 13, he continued his education at the New York College of Music (1940–1944) and at Harvard (B.A., M.A.) where he studied composition with Walter Piston, Irving Fine, and Randall Thompson. He was W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at Pomona College, where he taught for over forty years. His students at Pomona included Douglas Leedy, David Noon, Nancy Raabe (Miller), and Susan Morton Blaustein as well as, privately, Frank Zappa and John McGuire. With his wife, Margaret Kohn, he had a long career as a duo-pianist in the United States and in Europe, with a repertoire focused on major 20th century works by Debussy, Bartók, Berio, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Ligeti, Reich, and Boulez. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard McGillin
Howard McGillin (born November 5, 1953, in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. He is known for originating the role of John Jasper in '' The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' (1985) and for portraying the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's '' The Phantom of the Opera'' from 1999 to 2009 on Broadway. Biography Early life and career McGillin was born in Los Angeles, California. His father William was an accountant, and his mother Margaret was an administrator at Santa Barbara City College."Richard Samson, Howard McGillin." '''' September 22, 2013 McGillin graduated from [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
