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List Of Compositions By Betsy Jolas
This is a list of compositions by the Franco-American composer Betsy Jolas (born 1926). Her music is published by Éditions Alphonse Leduc, Éditions Billaudot and Éditions Salabert, amongst others. {Dead link, date=March 2020 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes " Opera and stage works *''Le Pavillon au Bord de la Rivière'' (1975), chamber opera in 4 acts *''Schliemann'' (1982–83), opera in 3 acts *''Le Cyclope'' (1986), chamber opera in 1 act * *''Ajax'' (1960), incidental music for the play by Sophocles *''Les troyennes'' (1961), incidental music for the play by Euripides *''La dernière existence au camp de Tatenberg'', incidental music for the play by Armand GattiOrchestra *''D'un ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Betsy is an English feminine given name, often a nickname for Elizabeth. People *Betsy, stage name of Welsh singer Elizabeth Humfrey *Betsy Ancker-Johnson (born 1927), American plasma physicist *Betsy Atkins (born 1953), American business executive and entrepreneur *Betsy Balcombe (1802−1871), English friend of Napoleon I at Saint Helena *Betsy Beard (born 1961), American coxswain *Betsy Beers (born 1957), American television and film producer *Betsy Beutler, American actress *Betsy Blair (1923–2009), American actress *Betsy Bobel, American dietitian and model *Betsy Boze, American academic and education administrator *Betsy Brown (born 1963), American poet *Betsy Bryan (born 1949), American Egyptologist *Betsy Butler (born 1963), American politician *Betsy Byars (1928–2020), American author *Betsy B. Carr (born 1946), American politician *Betsy or Betty Careless (c. 1704–1739), English courtesan *Betsy Clifford (born 1953), Canadian alpine skier *Betsy Close (born 1950), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsy Jolas
Elizabeth Jolas (born 5 August 1926) is a Franco-American composer. Biography Jolas was born in Paris in 1926. Her mother, the American translator Maria McDonald, was a singer. Her father, the poet and journalist Eugene Jolas, founded and edited the magazine ''transition'', which published over ten years most of the great names of the interwar period. Her family settled in the United States in late 1940. While completing her general studies in New York, then specializing in music at Bennington College, she joined the Dessoff Choirs, thus discovering notably Renaissance music which was to have a lasting influence on her work.Jeremy Thurlow, "Jolas, Betsy", ''Grove Music Online'', accessed 24 July 2017. Having returned to Paris in 1946, Jolas resumed her studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique, notably with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen. From 1971 to 1974 she served as Messiaen's assistant at the Conservatoire and was appointed herself to the faculty in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions Alphonse Leduc
The Éditions Alphonse Leduc company is a prominent French music publishing house specializing in classical music. It was created in Paris in 1841. Since January 2014, Leduc is part of the Wise Music Group (formerly the Music Sales Group). History Éditions Alphonse Leduc is a family business that has been passed down from father to son over five generations. The family is originally from Arnay-le-Duc, in the Burgundy region of France. The family musical origins began in Arnay-le-Duc in Burgundy and its first musician, Antoine Girard. Girard was a violinist who left his father's weaving shop to turn his attention to art. His son Charles Girard, who was born in Arnay-le-Duc in 1754, moved to Nantes and was the first full-time musician. The Girards were a large family and its Nantes branch added Leduc to its name, taken from its place of origin Arnay-le-Duc. From then on all of the Girards of this branch were known as Girard-Leduc, and often, for the sake of simplification in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions Salabert
Francis Salabert (born François-Joseph-Charles Salabert, 27 July 1884 – 28 December 1946) was an innovative and influential French music publisher (sheet music), music publisher, who was the head of Éditions Salabert in the first half of the twentieth century. Biography He was born François-Joseph-Charles Salabert in Paris. His father, Edouard Salabert (1838-1903), started the publishing business Éditions Salabert in the rue de la Victoire in 1878, initially to publish martial music, and acquired the rights to the march (music), marches of John Philip Sousa. However, Edouard became incapacitated through illness, and in 1901 Francis took over running the company at the age of 16. In 1908 he moved the business to rue Chauchat, and began expanding it to include the repertoires of composers and writers of light music, including Henri Christiné, Reynaldo Hahn, Aristide Bruant, Maurice Yvain, Vincent Scotto, Georges Van Parys, and, later, Charles Trenet. For Christiné's succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carillon
A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 cast-bronze bells. The bells are hung in fixed suspension and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniously together. They are struck with clappers connected to a keyboard of wooden batons played with the hands and pedals played with the feet. Often housed in bell towers, carillons are usually owned by churches, universities, or municipalities. They can include an automatic system through which the time is announced and simple tunes are played throughout the day. Carillons come in many designs, weights, sizes, and sounds. They are among the world's heaviest instruments, and the heaviest carillon weighs over . Most weigh between . To be considered a carillon, a minimum of 23 bells are needed; otherwise, it is called a chime. Standard-sized instruments have about 50, and the world's largest has 77 bells. The appearance of a carillon dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Hodges
Nicolas Hodges (born 1970, in London) is a pianist living in Germany. Early years Nicolas Hodges was born into a musical family. His mother sang in the BBC Singers, including under Boulez in works by Nono. His father was a keen amateur musician, and at one time a BBC Studio Manager. He was educated at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, Winchester College, and the universities of Cambridge and Bristol. Hodges sang as a treble in Christ Church Cathedral Choir and in that capacity recorded Bach Motets (on ASV) as well as performing in Benjamin Britten's ''War Requiem'' with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, in concert in the Royal Festival Hall and Birmingham Town Hall, as well as on the EMI recording of the work. He also performed with the choir in the Penderecki '' St Luke Passion'' in the BBC Proms, with the composer conducting: the concert was televised. Hodges studied the piano with Robert Bottone at Winchester, and subsequently with Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
