Extractions: Quotation Author Author description An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall. Oscar Levant 1906-1972, American Pianist, Actor Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. Oscar Levant 1906-1972, American Pianist, Actor Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. Oscar Levant 1906-1972, American Pianist, Actor Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath. Oscar Levant 1906-1972, American Pianist, Actor Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. [On Dwight D. Eisenhower] Oscar Levant 1906-1972, American Pianist, Actor Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision. Oscar Levant 1906-1972, American Pianist, Actor There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Extractions: A world-class pianist, composer, television and film personality, Levant seemed to know everyone who was anyone. His career took him from the concert hall to Broadway and Hollywood, to radio and television, to drug addiction and the psychiatric ward of Mt. Sinai hospital. Through a collection of anecdotal vignettes, Levant offers the reader a...
- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 and an early career as pit, nightclub, and restaurant pianist. oscar Levantwas to live another fifteen years, addicted and repeatedly hospitalized, http://www.karadar.com/Dictionary/levant.html
Extractions: Composers Biography Languages Oscar Levant Life Photo Gallery Home Page Oscar Levant Life Levant was studying with Martin Miessler, a graduate of the Leipzig Conservatory who specialized in the Czerny piano method. He began work with the well-regarded piano teacher Zygmunt Stojowski (1869-1946), a compatriot and disciple of Paderewski, and himself a student of Zelenski, Diémer, and Delibes Here began his first appreciation of Broadway's glamour, its characters and allure, and an early career as pit, nightclub, and restaurant pianist. In 1926, he toured London in cabaret; in 1929, he first travelled to Los Angeles, so to join the burgeoning group of New York composers and performers assigned to give film a musical voice. It was through composer-arranger Robert Russell Bennett that Levant returned to the concert stage. He was just 24 and a year later he sat with Gershwin , playing second keyboard in a two-piano version of the Second Rhapsody for conductor Arturo Toscanini. In 1932, unannounced, he turned to serious composition; he began work on what would become his Sonatina for Piano. Hearing the first movement
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Extractions: Accueil Instrumentistes - Liste des pianistes et de leurs agents. Sites en Français Amoyel, Pascal - Pianiste concertiste. Chaplin, François - Pianiste concertiste. Biographie, discographie, extraits, contacts. Courvoisier, Sylvie - Musique contemporaine, musique de ballet, de théâtre. Del Rio, Monika - Présente son récital de piano incluant les meilleures pages du compositeur polonais Frédéric Chopin. Fazil, Say - Portrait, répertoire et concert. Françaix, Jean - Biographie, oeuvres et concerts. Godart, Pascal - Pianiste concertiste. Gould, Glenn - Fonds d'archives de la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. Exposition virtuelle, sons (RealAudio), outils de recherche, événements, écrits, etc. Heisser, Jean-François - Portrait du pianiste. Jacquon, Alain - Concerts, discographie, biographie et sa boîte à musique (ressources). Papadiamandis, Matthieu - Pianiste concertiste. Roth, Véronique - Cours d'improvisation individuels et sous forme de stages. Tharaud, Alexandre
Extractions: Resources Special sites Services Search this web site: home locations book and music lists This tablecloth, framed and hanging in the Department's front room, was autographed by friends and associates of Vladimir and Julia Bakaleinikoff . Each signature was then embroidered by Julia. It was presented to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh by Charles Rosenbloom. Through our "Performers in Pittsburgh" file, we have determined that the majority of signers performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony between 1946 and 1953. Name: Adler, Larry, harmonica player
Oscar Levant: Early-Night Talk Show Host Reminiscing column on oscar levant as a TV talk show host in Los Angeles. levant had been at one time the highest paid concert pianist in the nation. http://www.metnews.com/articles/reminiscing081502.htm
Extractions: Yesterday marked 30 years since Oscar Levant died. Levant was an internationally known figurebut here in L.A., hes probably best remembered as the spontaneous, if not erratic, host of local talk shows. It was a coup for KCOP, Channel 13, to sign Levant in 1958 to appear on a twice-a-week live program, interviewing and pontificating in the early evenings. Levant had been at one time the highest paid concert pianist in the nation. He was a composer; author of an autobiography, A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); and an actor high in the credits in movies such as An American in Paris (in which he played every instrument in the orchestra in a fantasy sequence) and Band Wagon. In radio days, he was a regular panelist on Information Please, and accompanied Al Jolson on the piano and engaged in repartee with him on the Kraft Music Hall. And he was a wit extraordinaire, coming up with such one-liners as Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome and What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. A genius he wasand humility was not among his virtues. He once remarked, I am no more humble than my talents require. When he began his career as a local TV host
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Extractions: Metropolitan News-Enterprise Thursday, March 13, 2003 Page 14 REMINISCING (Column) Lloyd Thaxton: Local Personality By ROGER M. GRACE A few months ago, I was writing a column on Oscar Levant and wanted to get ahold of a particular person who had appeared on the late wits local TV talk show, delivering commercials. I tracked him down to LT Productions, and telephoned information for the phone number. There was no listing. The operator queried, Do you know what L.T. stands for? Lloyd Thaxton, I responded. Oh, I know HIM ! came the enthused reaction of an obvious fan. Thaxton had a lot of them. LLOYD THAXTON He was youthful, personable and good-looking in those days, 45 years back, when he delivered spiels on KCOP, and co-hosted a show on that station with the pianists wife, June Levant, after Oscar Levant had a blowup with management and moved to KHJ-TV. Thaxton soon starred in a local afternoon show resembling Dick Clarks American Bandstand, and emceed network television shows in the 1970s. White-haired now, Thaxton remains youthful, personable and good-looking.
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Extractions: Name: Oscar Levant Birth Date: December 27, 1906 Death Date: August 14, 1972 Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America Place of Death: Beverly Hills, California, United States of America Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: composer, pianist, actor, author Oscar Levant Main Biography If George Gershwin had an alter-ego, most people would agree that it was Oscar Levant (1906-1972), film composer and arranger. Levant, who was best known as a jazz pianist, was considered to have been the most accomplished interpreter of the vast songbook of U.S. composer George Gershwin, and was the first performer to record "Rhapsody in Blue" after Gershwin. He also scored numerous Broadway plays and Hollywood films, composed classical music, authored several books, and contributed numerous articles on musical topics. Levant was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 27, 1906 to Max and Annie Levant, Orthodox Russian Jews. His talent with music was recognized early in his life, but he was a troublesome child to his music teachers and his parents, displaying a constant aversion to people who represented authority. His father, a demanding parent, insisted that all of his sons receive musical training and perform at family recitals, exactly as he commanded. He was meticulous .....
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Extractions: MAURICE RAVEL: Piano Concerto for Left Hand in D Major The American Composers Orchestra begins its Millennium celebration with the first of its "20th Century Snapshots" series at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, January 10, 1999 at 3 pm. Conductor Dennis Russell Davies leads an unusual program four important American pianists in four works for piano and orchestra. The concert, entitled The Gershwin Circle, focuses on the international impact of George Gershwin and his music and features Leon Bates, Scott Dunn, Alan Feinberg, and Ursula Oppens, in music by Oscar Levant, Vernon Duke, Maurice Ravel, and, of course, Gershwin.
Oscar Levant's Grave (photo) THE GRAVE OF oscar levant (pianist / actor / talk show host) at Pierce BrothersWestwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California http://www.seeing-stars.com/ImagePages/OscarLevantGravePhoto.shtml
CBC News - Viewpoint: Larry Zolf Ezra levant is no oscar levant CBC News Viewpoint April 2, 2002 More fromLarry Zolf oscar levant, the legendary concert pianist and wit of books, http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20020402.html
Extractions: CBCCat = "Sports,News,Arts,Kids,Interactive"; Sports = "Hockey,Baseball,Football"; News = "Canada,World,SciTech,Local,Consumers,SpecialReports,Business"; Arts = "ArtsNews,Infoculture,Music,Books,ArtsFeatures"; Kids = "CBC4Kids,PreSchool,Teachers"; Interactive = "MessageBoards,Forums,Games,Media"; 02:03 PM EDT Sep 12 Ezra Levant, who suddenly caved in and abjectly surrendered his Alliance candidacy in Calgary Southwest to his leader Stephen Harper, is no Oscar Levant. Oscar Levant, the legendary concert pianist and wit of books, movies and American TV panel shows, always left everybody laughing at his dry, acerbic wit which put down everybody and mostly himself. What was good for the goose was good for the gander. Levant, a lawyer, threatened to sue Chuck Strahl, then an Alliance MP, for disparaging comments. But its not in the courts that Ezra Levant has made his mark. It is in politics that hes unique and a rising star. To be so charismatic and to be so Jewish in Calgary is a tale worth exploring in some depth.
Creative Quotations For Creative Thinking Cage, John (19121992) US composer, poet, essayist, painter, pianist musical comedy author; levant, oscar (1906-1972) US composer, musician, actor http://www.creativequotations.com/p-class.htm
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Oscar Levant Quotes And Quotations oscar levant Quotes. Pages 1. (1906 1972) - American pianist and actor.- Click icon to send that quote to a friend. http://www.amusingquotes.com/h/l/Oscar_Levant_1.htm
Extractions: (An American in Paris, 1951) I envy people who drink at least they know what to blame everything on. Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. I am no more humble than my talents require. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. A pun is the lowest form of humor when you don't think of it first. Email this page of Oscar Levant quotations to a friend.
Oscar Levant oscar levant movies, photos, video, biography, interviews, awards, news,filmography, credits. pianist,composer, actor http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/detail/celeb/193664
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