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Extractions: Dick Hyman By Bill Zinsser For almost fifty years it has been common knowledge in the entertainment business that the person to call for whatever kind of music you need is the pianist-arranger-composer-organist Dick Hyman. Computerized in Hyman's brain, instantly transferable to his fingers, is every popular piano and organ style that has ever been played in America, historically correct to the year when it was in vogue. He can also replicate note for note, the style of all the American giants of jazz piano in this century. from the intricate rags of Eubie and the galloping stride of James P. Johnson to the urgent bebop of Bud Powell and the introspective lyricism of Bill Evans.
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Extractions: Given name: Eugene Gero Szakall; born in Hungary. Character actor on stage and in vaudeville. In films from 1916; in Hollywood films from around 1939. Probably played in more musicals than any musical star ever did! Another of my personal favorites. The "S.Z." comes from the first two letters of his last name (spelled properly), Szakall. Famous quotes: "Sheeesh!"; "Nya! Nya! Nya!"
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Extractions: About Us Festival Hill Calendar Services ... MISSION - HISTORY - CONTACTS Concert pianist James Dick In 2003, James Dick is Texas State Musician appointee. The 1971 Festival, a ten-day session with ten piano students, included two concerts. During its first five years, the Festival-Institute leased facilities, but a master plan of development was soon established for programs and the future of the permanent campus. The first major facility, the Mary Moody Northen Pavilion, was acquired in 1973. It was the largest transportable stage in the world and was used for open-air concerts until 1983. Later, it was housed in the 1,000-seat Festival Concert Hall , on which construction began in 1981, until the permanent stage was completed in the Concert Hall in 1993. An abandoned school building and six acres of land North of Round Top were acquired in 1973 for a future campus to be named Festival Hill.
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Extractions: ABOUT US / MISSION HISTORY CONTACTS Located in historic Round Top, Texas, The James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts and its sole project, The International Festival-Institute at Round Top, were founded in 1972 by world-renowned concert pianist James Dick . Begun with a handful of gifted young pianists in rented space on the town square, the project is now an internationally acclaimed European-styled music institute for aspiring young musicians and distinguished faculty. Over a thirty year period and with the help of its patrons and friends, The James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts has developed superb year round education and performance programs. It has created also an unique 200-acre campus - Festival Hill - containing major performance facilities, historic houses, extensive gardens, parks and nature preserves. Through its singular collection of rare books, manuscripts, archival material, music and historic recordings, photographs and objects, the Festival-Institute is also known as an important center for research and scholarly study. The James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts
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Extractions: Bob Brown June Marlow David Carey Fred Dachtler The S targazers were a very popular vocal group on BBC radio throughout the 1950s. They could be described as novelty choralists having a style not dissimilar to the US group 'The New Christie Minstrels' of a decade later. Although the group seem to have ceased recording in about 1960, they had by then spawned other outfits that would carry the genre into the future. They will be more familiar to those of us who remember listening to radio shows like 'Take It From Here' in the mid to late 1950s, rather than those with an eye to the record charts. The EP shown here was published during 1956, but contained numbers that had been on a chart hit from almost two years previous. This is fortunate because it is very much more difficult to find "I See The Moon" on its original 45rpm single than it is on this EP. However, none of the Stargazers early material is easy to find on original vinyl- nearly all of it was sold on the 78rpm format. The Stargazers created several very successful records during the early 1950s including two #1s. These were produced with a number of different orchestras, most notably with that of Cyril Stapleton who also had close associations with BBC radio. They became the resident singers with Cyril Stapleton's Show Band- a radio programme that ran for many years from January 1953. Besides their own hits, they were also regularly used as backing singers on the records of a number of UK artists. These included Roy Smith, Dennis Lotis, Dickie Valentine, and Lita Roza.
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Extractions: Dick Hyman - For almost fifty years it has been common knowledge in the entertainment business that the person to call for whatever kind of music you need is the pianist-arranger-composer-organist Dick Hyman. Computerized in Hyman's brain, instantly transferable to his fingers, is every popular piano and organ style that has ever been played in America, historically correct to the year when it was in vogue. He can also replicate note for note, the style of all the American giants of jazz piano in this century, from the intricate rags of Eubie and the galloping stride of James P. Johnson to the urgent bebop of Bud Powell and the introspective lyricism of Bill Evans. Dick Hyman - Catalog of Distinguished Releases: As Recommended by the Riverwalk Gang Plays Duke Ellington Dick Hyman You Save: Song List: 1. Jubilee Stomp 2. Drop Me Off At Harlem 3. Clothed Woman, The 4. Sophisticated Lady 5. Doin' The Voom Voom 6. On A Turquoise Cloud 7. All Too Soon 8. Tonk 9. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart 10. Echoes Of Harlem 11. Prelude To A Kiss 12. Gal From Joe's, The 13. Day Dream 14. Come Sunday Album Details : Stereophile (2/93, pp.101-103) - "...Mr. Hyman both strides through these gems of American popular music with a splendid combination of panache and respect, and is the beneficiary of the finest, most natural recorded solo piano sound that I have yet to hear..."
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Extractions: 90s Obits January 02 Una Merkel, US actress (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 82 January 03 Jens Bjerre, composer, dies at 82 January 04 January 04 Phil Lynott, rocker (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose at 34 January 06 Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, dies at 90 January 07 Juan Rulfo, writer, dies January 07 M Rooi, editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily), dies at 79 January 08 Yaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84 January 10 Joseph Kraft, US columnist, dies at 61 January 12 Marcel Arland, French author (L'ordre, Lumire du Soir), dies at 86 January 13 Abdel Fattah Ismail, president of South-Yemen (19-80), murdered January 14 Donna Reed, actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of cancer at 64 January 14 Walter Leblanc, Belgian painter, dies at 53 January 15 James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83 January 18 Claire James, actress (Jack Armstrong), dies January 23 Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64 January 24 Gordon MacRae, singer (Oklahoma, Carousel), dies at 64
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Extractions: (b 25 Nov. '27, Greenwich CT; d 24 July '87, Palo Alto CA) Name pron. 'Wellstead'; pianist in trad. style derived from James P. Johnson, etc. Also a good writer (e.g. of sleeve notes, and brilliantly funny letters for those lucky enough to receive them) and a qualified attorney. Came to fame playing in a band with Bob Wilber '46, played with Sidney Bechet in Chicago '47, played with Rex Stewart, Charlie Shavers etc at Nick's in NYC. Toured with World's Greatest Jazz Band; toured '80s in the Blue Three with Kenny Davern, drummer Bobby Rosengarden. Made many albums as sideman with Wilber, etc, as well as solo sets (CD on Solo Art), and still has many fans. Duo Never In A Million Years on Challenge with Kenny Davern was made live at the Vineyard Theatre; solo two-CD Live At The Sticky Wicket '86 on Arbors made a joyous memorial. This Is The One ... Dig! and Dick WellstoodAlone on Solo Art compiled '716 solo tracks.
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Extractions: Turner has performed for audiences in concerts and jazz festivals throughout the West from San Diego to the San Juan Islands in Washington, and in New York City. For 16 years, he was a soloist at the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Festival. For 27 consecutive years including the year 2001, he was featured at the always sold-out Old Town Music Hall Ragtime Festivals in El Segundo, California. Turner has appeared as a soloist at jazz and ragtime festivals in Los Angeles, Pismo Beach, San Diego, Reno, Boulder, Indianapolis, Kansas City and Friday Harbor, Washington. In 1997, he was a featured artist at the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, Missouri, for the third time. He has performed as a featured pianist on the famed riverboat The Delta Queen on the Mississippi River.
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Extractions: Albany Music has released the most important recordings of the music of Benjamin Lees in many years, the first integral recordings of the composer¹s masterful Symphonies No. 2, 3 and 5 ("Kalmar Nyckel"), performed by Staatsphilharmonic Rheinland-Pfalz, conducted by the composers longtime musical interpreter and close associate, Stephen Gunzenhauser. This joins the acclaimed Naxos recording of the Symphony No. 4 "Memorial Candles", performed by mezzo Kimball Wheeler, violinist James Buswell and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar conducting (Naxos 8.559002). The Albany Records new release catalog for February said the following about the 2-CD set, "Three symphonies and a work for piano and orchestra from one of the great American composers." It is especially appropriate that Stephen Gunzenhauser has recorded these three works, as he has been a strong advocate of Mr. Lees¹ symphonies, and it was the conductor¹s Delaware Symphony that commissioned
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Extractions: The Pierian Recording Society has released a new CD of the classic 1964 New York Premiere performance of Benjamin Lees' Piano Concerto No. 1, performed by pianist Joseph Bloch and the National Orchestral Association, John Barnett conducting. The disc also features Ernest Gold's Piano Concerto and is Pierian Recording Society catalog #0010. The Society is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation devoted to the preservation of historic performances and obscure repertoire. The recordings of the Society are distributed by Albany Music Distribution and are available at major stores and at http://www.amazon.com
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Extractions: "Bullmoose" , later on in his career. Jackson's parents convinced him to study the violin, but after awhile, he took up the alto sax and proved more accomplished with that instrument playing Jazz. In 1944, he became part of Lucky Millinder's band working as both a vocalist and saxist. While he was still in high school, Jackson and his friend Freddie Webster, formed a band - The Harlem Hotshots, who, in 1943, enjoyed a brief stint in a Buffalo (NY) club before returning to Cleveland. At that time, Jackson caught the eye of bandleader Lucky Millinder, whose sidemen gave him the unforgettable name "Bull Moose", and the colorful monicker stuck. One night while on tour in Texas, Wynonie Harris, the scheduled singer, didn't show up. Jackson was pulled out of the sax section to croon the song "Hurry, Hurry," and a new career was born. In 1949, he had hits with "Little Girl, Don't Cry" and "Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me" (a "cover" of Wayne Raney's hillbilly hit, a cross-fertilizing practice at King).
Extractions: At age seven, Cyril began studying the violin, and, at age 12, made his first broadcast from 5NG, the local radio station in Nottingham. He was often heard on broadcasts from the BBC Studios in Birmingham, but while still very young, he went to Czechoslovakia in order to study under Sevcik, the famous Czech violin teacher. While still a teenager, he found work playing in cinema 'pit orchestras' accompanying silent films. At age 17, he won a Trinity College of Music (London) scholarship. While still a student, he found work playing in the Henry Hall Dance Band, just formed for BBC broadcasts. He was with the band on their first ever broadcast, and can be heard playing on some of Hall's early Columbia 78s recorded in 1932. At some point, Cyril left Hall and he returned to Nottingham, and again found work in the local cinemas. He next joined the Jack Payne Orchestra, and was a member when the band toured to South Africa. And, again was heard on some of Payne's 1936 Rex label recordings (78rpm). When that job ended, Cyril formed his own band in London, where he found work at The Casino (Compton Street), and also at Fisher's Restaurant (New Bond Street). In 1939, he made his very first broadcast with his own band. He also played briefly with the Jack Hylton Orchestra, under Billy Ternent.
