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Ricardo Lorenz
Ricardo Lorenz (born May 24, 1961) is a Venezuelan composer and academic. Life and career Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Lorenz earned degrees from both the Conservatory of Music Juan Manuel Olivares and the Juan Manuel Olivares National School of Music (also known as the Venezuelan National Conservatory) in Caracas, Venezuela. He then pursued graduate studies in music composition under Juan Orrego-Salas and Donald Erb at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music where he graduated with a Master of Music degree in 1986. He joined the faculty of the Jacobs School where he served as the director of the Latin American Music Center from 1987-1992. In 1995 he compiled and published the sourcebook ''Scores and Recordings at Indiana University's Latin American Music Center'' (Indiana University Press, 1995) In 1992 Lorenz left the Jacobs school to pursue doctoral studies in music composition at the University of Chicago where he was a pupil of John Eaton and Shulamit Ran. After complet ...
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Composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Classical music, Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Definition The term is descended from Latin, wikt:compono, ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together". The earliest use of the term in a musical context given by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is from Thomas Morley's 1597 ''A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music'', where he says "Some wil be good descanters [...] and yet wil be but bad composers". 'Composer' is a loose term that generally refers to any person who writes music. More specifically, it is often used to denote people who are composers by occupation, or those who in the tradition of Western classical music. Writers of exclusively or primarily songs may be called composers, but since the 20th century the terms 'songwriter' or 'singer-songwriter' ...
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Billings Symphony Orchestra
The Billings Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Billings, Montana. The Symphony was founded in 1950, and the chorale was founded in 1955. The Billings Symphony serves South Central Montana, Eastern Montana Eastern Montana is a loosely defined region of Montana. Some definitions are more or less inclusive than others, ranging from the most inclusive, which would include the entire part of the state east of the Continental Divide, to the least inclusiv ... and Northern Wyoming as the only symphony and chorale in the region. The Billings Symphony Orchestra regularly performs at the Alberta Bair Theater. Conductors *1950 to 1955 - Robert Staffanson *1955 to 1984 - George Perkins *1984 to 2004 - Uri Barnea (First full-time music director & Conductor.) *2005 to Present - Anne Harrigan References External links Billings Symphony
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Jacobs School Of Music Faculty
Jacobs may refer to: Businesses and organisations *Jacob's, a brand name for several lines of biscuits and crackers in Ireland and the UK * Jacobs (coffee), a brand of coffee *Jacobs Aircraft Engine Company, former American aircraft engine company *Jacobs Engineering Group, an American international technical professional services firm * Jacobs Entertainment, an American gaming, hospitality, and entertainment company *Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, at the University at Buffalo, New York, U.S. *Jacobs School of Music, at, Indiana University, U.S. *Jacobs University Bremen, in Germany Places * Jacobs, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. * Jacobs, Pennsylvania, U.S., now Port Providence * Jacobs, Wisconsin, U.S. * Jacobs Island, Antarctica Other uses * Jacobs (surname), including a list of people with this name *Jacobs F.C., a former Irish football club *, a tug, formerly ''Empire Gnome'' See also * Jacob (other) * Jacobs Creek (other) * Jacobs Ri ...
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Jacobs School Of Music Alumni
Jacobs may refer to: Businesses and organisations * Jacob's, a brand name for several lines of biscuits and crackers in Ireland and the UK * Jacobs (coffee), a brand of coffee *Jacobs Aircraft Engine Company, former American aircraft engine company *Jacobs Engineering Group, an American international technical professional services firm * Jacobs Entertainment, an American gaming, hospitality, and entertainment company *Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, at the University at Buffalo, New York, U.S. *Jacobs School of Music, at, Indiana University, U.S. * Jacobs University Bremen, in Germany Places * Jacobs, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. * Jacobs, Pennsylvania, U.S., now Port Providence * Jacobs, Wisconsin, U.S. * Jacobs Island, Antarctica Other uses * Jacobs (surname), including a list of people with this name * Jacobs F.C., a former Irish football club *, a tug, formerly ''Empire Gnome'' See also * Jacob (other) * Jacobs Creek (other) * Jacobs ...
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1961 Births
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th gov ...
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Vanishing Borders
''Vanishing Borders'' is a 2014 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Alexandra Hidalgo. The film was screened at the All Lights India International Film Festival All Lights India International Film festival (ALIIFF), is an annual film festival of India conducted in Hyderabad. It is usually conducted in December every year. The 4th edition was held from Dec 1-4, 2018 at PVR Inorbit Mall, Hyderabad. Popular M ..., Glendale International Film Festival and Commffest, Toronto. Plot The film tells the stories of four immigrant women — Teboho Moja, Melainie Rogers, Daphnie Sicre and Yatna Vakharia — living in New York City and improving their communities with their work and activism to celebrate the ways in which immigration can transform not only those who immigrate but the places to which they move. Teboho Moja is a South African professor of higher education, who worked in the anti-apartheid movement. Melainie Rogers is an Australian nutritionist whos ...
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Electroacoustic Music
Electroacoustic music is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instruments. It originated around the middle of the 20th century, following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition to fixed media during the 20th century are associated with the activities of the at the ORTF in Paris, the home of musique concrète, the Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne, where the focus was on the composition of ''elektronische Musik,'' and the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City, where tape music, electronic music, and computer music were all explored. Practical electronic music instruments began to appear in the early 20th century. Tape music Tape music is an integral part of ''musique concrèt ...
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Edward Harrison (timpanist)
Edward Harrison is Principal Timpanist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Artist Faculty and Head of Percussion at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University. An internationally known maraca expert, Harrison is considered the leading exponent of contemporary maraca playing in the United States and Europe. In 1999, he performed the world's first concerto for maraca soloist with symphony orchestra, which was written for him by Ricardo Lorenz, at Chicago's Orchestra Hall. The composition was entitled ''Pataruco: Concerto for Maracas''. The '' Chicago Sun-Times'' lauds his "remarkable mastery as a solo performer". He has served on the faculty at DePaul University, Northwestern University and Concordia University Chicago. Ed Harrison has performed with Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, McCoy Tyner, and Paquito D'Rivera. He performs frequently with the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival. He has done radio and television performances for Nova (Public B ...
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Aldo Abreu
Aldo Abreu is a Venezuelan recorder player currently residing in the United States. Life and career Born in Caracas, Venezuela to famous harpsichordist Abraham Abreu and Janet Foxton, Abreu holds the Performer's and Teacher's Diplomas from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and a master's degree from Indiana University in Bloomington. His teachers have included Ricardo Kanji, Michael Barker, and Scott Martin Kosofsky. He lives in the Boston area and is a member of the faculties of the New England Conservatory, the Boston Conservatory, Boston University, and the Amherst Early Music Festival. Awards He is the First Prize Winner of the 1992 "Concert Artists Guild Competition" (New York), as well as a laureate of the competition Musica Antiqua Bruges and the "Premio Flauto Dolce" (Germany). Performances Abreu has toured throughout the United States, Europe, New Zealand, Central America, and his native Venezuela, and has been featured at the 1993 and 1996 Spoleto Festivals in ...
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étude
An étude (; ) or study is an instrumental musical composition, usually short, designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill. The tradition of writing études emerged in the early 19th century with the rapidly growing popularity of the piano. Of the vast number of études from that era some are still used as teaching material (particularly pieces by Carl Czerny and Muzio Clementi), and a few, by major composers such as Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Claude Debussy, achieved a place in today's concert repertory. Études written in the 20th century include those related to traditional ones (György Ligeti) and those that require wholly unorthodox technique ( John Cage). 19th century Studies, lessons, and other didactic instrumental pieces composed before the 19th century are extremely varied, without any established genres. Domenico Scarlatti's ''30 Essercizi per gravicembalo'' ("30 Exercises for harpsichord", 1738) do not differ in scope f ...
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Idiophones
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity ( electrophones). It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification (see List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number). The early classification of Victor-Charles Mahillon called this group of instruments ''autophones''. The most common are struck idiophones, or concussion idiophones, which are made to vibrate by being struck, either directly with a stick or hand (like the wood block, singing bowl, steel tongue drum, triangle or marimba) or indirectly, with scraping or shaking motions (like maracas or flexatone). Various types of bells fall into both categories. A common plucked idiophone is the Jew's harp. According to Sachs, idiophones Etymology The word is from Anci ...
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