San Bei Ji/ä¸æ¯é The piano and the bass sound like mud unless the pianist lays off the pedal it shouldnt matter what instrument is playing the continuo just so long as http://www.sanbeiji.com/
Extractions: @import url("http://www.sanbeiji.com/wp-content/themes/sanbeiji1/style.css"); September 9th, 2005 What I like about iTunes 5: What I could care less about in iTunes 5: And what sucks: Posted in Computers Macintosh iPod/iTunes Music ... September 3rd, 2005 Our friend Carol in Taipei reports on Typhoon Taili that just passed over Taiwan. Certainly no Katrina, but all the heavy weather across the globe is starting to concern me. other concerns Posted in September 3rd, 2005 Posted in Meanwhile Funny September 2nd, 2005 WTF? This is getting ridiculous. Misery Grows for Those Left in New Orleans At midday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the line to be evacuated â much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome since Sunday. The National Guard made him get back in with the unwashed masses as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.
Extractions: The Long-Awaited Follow-Up to Fluffy Ruffle Girls . . . Virginia Eskin Plays Joseph Lamb "I used to have a theory that the rags written by women were superior to those of men, until I strolled into Joe Lamb. His rags are a lacy, laden with arching melodies, and finger-leasing as any the ladies wrote. There is a nostalgic turn of phrase in everything he touched, which has made his works very popular among pianist." Virginia Eskin American Beauties The Piano When Virginia Eskin turned her lively classical skills to a collection of little-known rags by women (Northeastern's Fluffy Ruffle Girls, NOR CD 9003), the critics raved. Now she returns with a delightful collection of tunes, both widely-known and rare, by ragtime great Joseph Lamb. Joe Lamb (1887-1960) published many rags early in this century, then mostly abandoned commercial music until his rediscovery in the 1950's. But even during this hiatus he kept composing in his unique, almost-classical style. Today Lamb is considered one of the three most important composers of ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and James Scott.
Joseph Diamond joseph Diamond pianist, composer, producer sees the realization of alongheld dream. Of course, josephs musicianship has a long past. http://www.smooth-jazz.de/Artists3/Diamond.html
Extractions: Joseph Diamond With the release of Not Your Typical New Yorker , Joseph Diamond pianist, composer, producer sees the realization of a long-held dream. Once he had recognized the idea that, "It was about time to do something on my own," Joe pursued his goal with foresight and determination. He rehearsed his band "on and off for a year," while writing music and fine tuning his concept for the CD. He hired topnotch musicians for his rhythm section Vince Cherico on drums and Leo Traversa on bass and enlisted the services of his best friend and "main man," the late Drew Francis on keyboards, flutes, and tenor sax. He immersed himself in Latin music, which he had studied with Oscar Hernández. As a result, six of the tunes on Not Your Typical New Yorker a title which Joseph finds reflective of his own friendly attitude are Latin in structure and feeling. Of course
Franz Joseph Liszt Liszt s longlasting relationships with two married women (the Countess Marie As a virtuoso pianist, Liszt filled his piano music with fantastic http://www.wwnorton.com/classical/composers/liszt.htm
Extractions: In his own words... Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor. Lizst was an innovator in his piano and orchestral works, and created new approaches to form. Franz Liszt embodied all of the great ambitions of the Romantic era, and many of its contradictions. His life spanned three generations of Romantic composers. In his early life, he was an extravagant virtuoso, the darling of the ladies, and a creator of new and adventurous music. In his old age, he turned to the church, becoming a priest, writing sacred music, and championing the music of a new generation. In 1848, Liszt abandoned his concert career to concentrate more on his composing. He took the post of court conductor to the Duke of Weimar, and it was here that he wrote or revised many of his most well-known pieces. Late in life he moved to Rome, taking minor orders there in 1865. Much of the rest of his life was taken up with composing religious music, although he kept up his career as a teacher and performer, dividing his time between Rome, Weimar, and Budapest.
Laguna Presbyterian Church The brothers assumed that at long last joseph would have his day of It isthe true story of the JewishPolish pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman. http://www.lagunapreschurch.org/cgi-bin/sermons/write_htm.cgi?10333033429
Syn-composers Ford, Emile, long, joseph, RimskyKorsakov, N. Wonder, Stevie. Gittleman, Harley,Mayer, John, Saradzhev, long, joseph Scottish concert pianist. http://home.comcast.net/~sean.day/syn-composers.htm
Local 802 News - Publications & Press Releases Irving joseph, 75, a pianist, conductor and musical director who joined Local 802 in Mr. Nicastro had a long career as a soloist at Manhattan hotels, http://www.local802afm.org/publication_entry.cfm?xEntry=34172976
Extractions: April 13, 1940 Vanguard Classics OVC 8008 Most of us tend to think of chamber music as a sterile affair in which refined musicians gently amuse a staid group of corseted ladies and starched gentlemen amid lavish splendor. Pretty dull stuff. A few minutes of this disc should forever demolish such an absurd myth. This is, quite simply, one of the greatest concerts ever recorded. Blazing with passion, it ranks right up there with Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall, James Brown at the Apollo, the Allman Brothers at the Fillmore, or your own sweat-drenched favorite. As with most such events, its supreme quality arose from a unique confluence of forces, a single moment in time that would never recur. Joseph Szigeti, one of the most acclaimed violinists of the century, was a fervent advocate of modern music. Bela Bartok was not only an accomplished pianist but one of the most influential composers of his era. Both were life-long friends, allied by their ardent nationalism and anti-fascism, who emigrated to America. Szigeti came first. Bartok arrived on April 11, 1940. This recital two days later was their first in the New World.
The Way Of The Long Strings in Sanders Theatre with pianist Benjamin Loeb 89 and violinist joseph Lin 00 . Her arms weren t long enough. And I hated violin, she recalls. http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/030306.html
Extractions: March-April 2003 More University news... Next article... John Harvard's Journal The Way of the Long Strings To be a virtuoso musician and a college student at the same time is somewhat like forcing two people into one body: something's got to give. For example, if you want to spend every evening from about 7 to 11 p.m. at the Music Building with your cello, you have to hope for the best, since no one is allowed to reserve that much time in a practice room. "Much as I'd like to practice in my room, people in the building would hate me," says Sarah Carter '04. "It's not fun to hear someone practicing." Carter plays a 1760 cello with up-to-the-minute technique Photograph by Stu Rosner Then, that little matter of studying. Carter, a psychology concentrator, does her academic work before and after cello practice. Luckily, she can get by on five hours of sleep: she's in bed by 1:30 or 2 a.m., and up at 7:30 in the morning—unless it's a concert night. Then she gets zero rest, because after a performance she just can't fall asleep. "It's an adrenaline thing," she explains. "My mind won't quiet down." There have been many such nights. Carter is one of the country's finest young cellists; she has already soloed with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony. Recently she has been performing with the Boston-based Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, although she hasn't played with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra or the Bach Society Orchestra: "I don't have that much time to commit," she says. "My own private practice is what I need the most."
Sam Lipman At The NEA By Joseph Epstein Not long after I first met Sam, one evening when we were walking in Washington, The concert performerusually a pianist or violinist plays, http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/13/mar95/sam.htm
Extractions: by Joseph Epstein S Commentary Y NEA sick NEA was spending its $170 or so million on was either trivial or misguided or pernicious. S oon after I arrived for my first Council meeting, Sam told me that he thought the NEA At the NEA I once asked Sam how it felt to take on so relentlessly that entire room of NEA kischkes Sam was a hero at the NEA S Sam was always more concerned to wield influence in the right direction than to garner praise. From time to time, I would pass along to Sam a compliment I had heard about his splendid music criticism, but he seemed little interested in these. He wanted his writing to result in change: scoundrels thrown out, people of quality put in, programs changed, argument leading to action. His days at the NEA allowed him to believe that here his influence was genuine, even though friends told him he was wasting his time. Although he had a decisive hand in a report on arts education and on the place of art in American civilization, the sad truth is that few people read such reports, and no one at all ever acts upon them, and so little evidence of his immense effort at the Endowment remains. NEA would have been much worse without him.
JOSEPH HOROWITZ Is Executive Director Of The Brooklyn Orchestra On another occasion she insisted that the pianist Eduard Steuermann be During this long final phase of his career, lasting until his retirement in 1972 http://www.concentric.net/~onk145/Horowitz.htm
Extractions: JOSEPH HOROWITZ is Executive Director of the Brooklyn Orchestra and author of Understanding Toscanini: A Social History of American Concert Life and Wagner Nights: An American History . His review of Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times originally appeared in the Spring 1997 issue of The American Scholar I cannot think of a single living classical musican whose biography could be subtitled "His Life and Times." (Imagine: Luciano Pavarotti? Itzhak Perlman? James Levine?) But "Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times" sounds right. A physical giant, a wild yet austere personality, Klemperer occupied a vast stage. Purposefully and fortuitously, heroically and clumsily, he tangled with political and intellectual affairs far beyond the scope of mere music in performance. As director of Berlin's Kroll Opera from 1917 to 1931, Klemperer personified Weimar culture new music, new aesthetics, new thought. His fitful American career, in Hitler's wake, exposed both his Goliath-like psychological instability and the philistinism of certain American musical and political mores. His reputation was ultimately regenerated in London, where he acquired a cult status inimical to the manic-depressive tumult of his five previous decades in music. We learn from the late Peter Heyworth's biography that Klemperer himself regarded his musical directorship in Wiesbaden where he presided over innovative stagings of Busoni, Ravel, Strauss, and Stravinsky between 1924 and 1927 as the happiest period of his life. Heyworth plausibly regards the subsequent Kroll years as Klemperer's most fulfilled. Established by the Prussian Ministry of Culture as a progressive branch of the Berlin Staatsoper, the Staatsoper an Platz de Republik occupied the renovated Kroll Theater as part of an agreement that reserved half the seats for the Social Democratic Volksbuhne at prices geared to the wages of a twenty-five-year-old manual worker.
BERKLEE | Berklee Today Online Julian joseph London s Top Jazz pianist. With his career as a composer, pianist,bandleader, The harmony might stay on one chord for a long time. http://www.berklee.edu/bt/152/coverstory.html
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Joseph Diamond's Life Story Anchored by his longtime favorite rhythm section of Leo Traversa on bass and For his second self-produced album, Island Garden, joseph expanded his http://www.josephdiamond.com/bio.html
Extractions: At the W.C. Handy Festival in 1997 To describe Joseph Diamond merely as a pianist, composer, and producer is to present an image that is far too narrow. It's true that his pianistic abilities run into the virtuosic range, which is not surprising given his jazz and classical pedigree: daily childhood studies with his mother, jazz explorations in high school with George Handy, trial-by-fire in the University of Miami music department, and further college study with jazz icons such as Jackie McLean, Nat Reeves, and James Williams, as well as the late Jaki Byard and Walter Bishop, Jr. It's possible to trace still other significant influences on Joseph's musicianship by following the path of his lengthy tours on Caribbean cruise ships and Broadway road productions, as well as the years he spent mastering Latin piano styles at New York's Boy's Harbor, a legendary hotbed of Latin music activity. But knowing all this still won't prepare you for the impact Joseph's music may have on you when you hear it. Elements of all these influences come in and out of his compositions, but it's Joseph's ingenuity and creativity - okay, his chops, too - that make each tune a self-contained world of clever orchestration, beguiling melody, and burning grooves, unlike any you've heard before. The lines between tradition and innovation are blurred in Joseph's world, though he hasn't penned a tune yet that wasn't true to the integrity of the styles embodied in it. Live or on disc, Joseph's music is fresh and engaging.
Joseph Holbrook Incognito By Michael Freeman - Nov 2003 MusicWeb(UK) Thus joseph Holbrooke on his Cauldron of Annwn, yet the critic and composer My father was a musician in a humble way, a pianist who performed in the http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Nov03/Holbrooke_Incognito.ht
Extractions: JOSEPH HOLBROOKE INCOGNITO by MICHAEL FREEMAN "I have written much for old Wales. Im glad to say that The Birds of Rhiannon is a simple work and also on the Welsh legends. It is for small orchestra and could be played by the Welsh orchestras - if there are any (you probably know of the many large choral pieces supplied to the various Eisteddfodau)" - Holbrooke to the author 31.3. 1958, four months before Holbrookes death Who was this enigmatic figure in British music and what did he write other than an ambitious operatic trilogy based on the Mabinogion with libretti by T.E. Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden? (1)
Extractions: Synthesizer Manufacturer Links Digital Pianos There are a wide range of digital pianos on the market. The main things you will want to keep an eye open for are listed below. Scroll down for more digital pianos and keyboards. To find out when new keyboard reviews and articles are posted, join CleverJoe's clever newsletter Tips on buying a new (or second hand) keyboard or digital piano: Piano Action: At the very least, a touch sensitive keyboard is really a must have, even for beginners. You will also want to check out the piano action of the keyboard, that is, how the keys respond when played. There are some very nice digital pianos available today with excellent, fully weighted piano hammer action. Every keyboard is built a bit differently, so it helps of you can try different instruments before plunking down your hard earned dough. Piano and Instrument Sounds: Obviously, the quality of the sound of the keyboard is very important. Many digital pianos offer other instrument sounds in addition to piano. While this can add great value to your instrument, don't base your decision on this factor alone. If you plan on playing mostly solo piano, the 'cool factor' of having a zillion sounds at your fingertips will wear off quickly.
JazzHouston Jazz News Joe Sample And Huey Long At The Ruggles Huey long celebrated his 101st Birthday at Ruggles yesterday. In addtion,Skip Nallia, who is the regular pianist on the gig, invited his friend, http://www.jazzhouston.com/news/words.jsp?key=658&fpage=2&from=archive
Joe Bushkin; Pianist Wrote Sinatra Hit (washingtonpost.com) Joe Bushkin, a wisecracking, musically graceful pianist who performed with manyof the In jazz, if you ve been playing as long as I ve been playing, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33136-2004Nov7.html
Extractions: var SA_Message="SACategory=" + thisNode; Hello Edit Profile Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Subscribe to SEARCH: News Web var ie = document.getElementById?true:false; ie ? formSize=27 : formSize=24 ; document.write(''); Top 20 E-mailed Articles washingtonpost.com Metro Obituaries ... E-Mail This Article Top News Obituaries What is RSS? All RSS Feeds By Matt Schudel Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 8, 2004; Page B06 Joe Bushkin, a wisecracking, musically graceful pianist who performed with many of the greatest jazz and big band musicians and singers of his era, died of pneumonia Nov. 3 at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 87. In a career spanning 70 years, Mr. Bushkin played with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong and Artie Shaw, as well as Judy Garland, who once said he's a "musician's musician, but he plays awfully pretty for the people." Search Paid Death Notices Call (202) 334-4122 to place a paid death notice.
Extractions: @import url(../css/cmdbasic.css); Skip to content You are viewing the unstyled version of the Center for Macular Degneration's website. To view the styled version, try turning on Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) support in your browser (if it is off) or upgrading to a newer browser with CSS support. Search Go Viewing Options About the CMD Additional Information Home ... Hancher Introduction About the Artists Coming Soon to Hancher Joe Lovano, tenor sax Ralph Lalama, tenor sax Steve Slagle, alto sax Gary Smulyan, baritone sax Larry Ferrell, trombone Barry Ries, trumpet John Hicks, piano Dennis Irwin, bass
Links: New Orleans Piano Singer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and producer the New Orleans native has been His piano playing rekindles the long lost styles and spirits of http://www.wwoz.org/links2/neworleanspiano.html
Extractions: Your Event Search the Links WWOZ Links: New Orleans Piano Dr. John : Official site of the 'Night Tripper' himself. Eddie Bo Joe Krown Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen : "Cleary effortlessly dishes out a variety of musical dialects: tight-and-right funk, sophisticated balladry, and Big Easy-via-Cuba piano, reminding listeners why he is hailed as one of the very best of his field." Fats Domino Allen Toussaint : "Allen Toussaint is one of Americas greatest musical treasures. Singer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and producer the New Orleans native has been making hit records for over forty years. His massive influence on American music reaches deep into the idioms of rhythm and blues, pop, country, musical theater, blues and jazz." Clarence 'Frogman' Henry : "Clarence 'Frogman' Henry: Legendary New Orleans artist, and still going strong. What about these hits: Aint Got No Home, But I Do, You Always Hurt The One You Love, Troubles Troubles, 'm In Love, It Wont Be Long, Your Picture, Long Lost And Worried, On Bended Knees, Lonely Tramp, Baby Baby Please?" Marcia Ball : A serious disciple of the New Orleans piano traditions, and much more. "Marcia Ball honed her powerful singing and deft, rollicking keyboard chops while growing up in the small town of Vinton, Louisiana, on the Texas border. This musical and cultural frontier has produced such other roots-music greats as Gatemouth Brown, George Jones, Janis Joplin, Clarence Garlow, Cleveland Crochet, Clifton Chenier, Joe Bonsall and Johnny and Edgar Winter. It was and still is a hotbed of country, blues, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, rockabilly and Gulf Coast swamp pop, and young Marcia absorbed it all, even as she was receiving her formal piano training."
