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| Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within |
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Film Production NotesFinal Fantasy: The Spirits Within emerges from its successful interactive game roots to deliver an exciting new breed of motion picture adventure. A fresh, provocative take on the sci-fi genre, the film blends spiritual...
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| Gilles Apap |
Gilles Apap (born May 21, 1963) is a french violinist who plays Romani (gypsy) music, swing, Irish music, and bluegrass music, as well as the masterpieces of classical music.
Born in Bougie, he was raised in Nice, France. In 1985 he won the first...
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| The Clangers |
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Clangers is an iconic British stop motion animated children's television series of short stories about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and in, a small grey planet in dark space. They speak in whistles, and eat green soup harvested by...
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| Pablo Casals |
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Pau Casals |
Pau Casals i Defilló (December 29, 1876 – October 22, 1973), best known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and later conductor. He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and...
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| Artur Schnabel |
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Artur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 – August 15, 1951) was an Austrian-born Jewish classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. He is one of the 20th...
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| War Requiem |
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The War Requiem, Op. 66 is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem Mass composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed January 1962. Interspersed with the traditional Latin texts are pasted, collage-like, settings of Wilfred...
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| Alfred Brendel |
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Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia and a resident of the United Kingdom. He is also a poet and author of the surreal.
Brendel was born in Vízmberk, Czechoslovakia, now Loučná nad Desnou, Czech...
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| Adrian Boult |
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Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH (8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was an English conductor.
Boult was born in Chester and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. As a schoolboy, he attended Sir Henry Wood's Saturday afternoon and Sunday...
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| Boston Symphony Orchestra |
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BSO |
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays the majority of its concerts at Boston's...
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| San Francisco Symphony |
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San Francisco Symphony Orchestra |
The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) is a leading orchestra based in San Francisco, California. The current music director is Michael Tilson Thomas, who has held the position since September 1995.
The orchestra has long been an integral part of city...
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| BBC Symphony Orchestra |
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra |
The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in Britain.
The orchestra was founded as a full time organisation in 1930, with Adrian Boult as its first chief...
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| Dallas Symphony Orchestra |
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is an American orchestra. It performs its concerts in the Meyerson Symphony Center in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States.
The orchestra traces its origins to a concert given by a group of...
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| In C |
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In C is a semi-aleatoric musical piece composed by Terry Riley in 1964 for any number of people, although he suggests "a group of about 35 is desired if possible but smaller or larger groups will work". It is a response to the abstract academic...
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| Arturo Toscanini |
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Arturo Toscanini (Italian pronunciation: [ɑrˈturɔ tɔskɑˈnini]; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th Centuries, he was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his...
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| Seattle Symphony |
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Seattle Symphony Orchestra |
The Seattle Symphony is an American orchestra based in Seattle, Washington. Gerard Schwarz has served as its music director since 1983.
The orchestra's first performance was given on December 29, 1903, with Harry West conducting. Known from its...
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| Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra |
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The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra based in Liverpool, England, is Britain's oldest established orchestra and one of the oldest in the world. It is owned and administered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society (RLPS), a registered...
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| Hallé Orchestra |
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Halle Orchestra |
The Hallé is a symphony orchestra based in Manchester, England. It is the UK's oldest extant symphony orchestra (and the fourth oldest in the world), supports a choir and a youth orchestra, and releases its recordings on its own record label, though...
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| Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra |
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Gewandhausorchester Leipzig |
The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; sometimes simply referred to as Gewandhausorchester) is a famous German orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. It is named after the concert hall in which it is based, the Gewandhaus (...
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| Minnesota Orchestra |
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The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Emil Oberhoffer founded the orchestra in 1903 as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which gave its first performance on November 5 of that year. The name was changed...
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Le Sacre du printemps (Russian: Весна священная, Vesna svjaščennaja) |
The Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French title, Le Sacre du Printemps (Russian: Весна священная, Vesna svyashchennaya) is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky,...
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| Claudio Arrau |
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Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and...
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| Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra |
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Göteborgs Symfoniker |
The Göteborgs Symfoniker (Gothenburg Symphony, or Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra) is an orchestra based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Founded in 1905, it was granted the title of the "National Orchestra of Sweden" in 1997. The GSO is resident at the...
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| The Beginning |
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The Beginning is the twenty-eighth album by Jandek. It was released in 1999, and was given Corwood Industries release number 0766. It is considered the final album of Jandek's "second acoustic phase".
Considered the seventh and final album of the ...
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| Gareth Morris |
Gareth Charles Walter Morris (13 May 1920 - 14 February 2007) was a British flautist. He was the principal flautist of a number of London orchestras including the Boyd Neel Orchestra before joining the Philharmonia Orchestra. He was the principal...
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| The Man Who Wasn't There |
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The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 neo-noir film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Billy Bob Thornton stars in the title role. Also featured are James Gandolfini, Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, and Coen regulars Frances McDormand,...
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| Eugène Ysaÿe |
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Eugene Ysaye |
Eugène Ysaÿe (French pronunciation: [øʒɛn iza.i]; July 16, 1858 – May 12, 1931) was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor. His brother was pianist and composer Théo Ysaÿe (1865–1918). He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan...
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| Leif Ove Andsnes |
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Leif Ove Andsnes is a Norwegian pianist.
He studied with Jiří Hlinka at the Grieg Academy of Music in Bergen. He is an ardent champion of the works of Edvard Grieg.
Andsnes has been nominated for the Grammy Awards four times (as of December 2004)....
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| Dinu Lipatti |
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Dinu Lipatti (19 March 1917 – 2 December 1950) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33.
Lipatti was born in Bucharest into a musical family: his father was a violinist...
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| Karel Ančerl |
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Karel Ancerl |
Karel Ančerl (April 11, 1908 – July 3, 1973), born Karel Antscherl, was a Czech conductor, known for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers. His recordings with Czech Philharmonic acquired many...
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| Antal Doráti | Antal Dorati |
Antal Doráti KBE (April 9, 1906 – November 13, 1988) was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1947.
Doráti was born in Budapest in a Jewish family, where his father was a violinist with the Budapest...
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| Joachim Raff |
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Joseph Joachim Raff (May 27, 1822 - June 24 or June 25, 1882) was a Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.
Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. He was largely self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster in Schmerikon,...
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| Roberto Alagna |
Roberto Alagna (born June 7, 1963) is a French operatic tenor of Sicilian descent. He was born in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
Alagna was born outside of the city of Paris in 1963 to a family of Sicilian immigrants. As a teenager,...
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| Leonard Slatkin |
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Leonard Slatkin, conductor |
Leonard Edward Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor. Long associated with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, he is now music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
His father Felix Slatkin was the violinist, conductor and...
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| 20th century classical music |
20th-century classical music developed or reacted to the trends started in the previous century. At the turn of the century, music was characteristically late Romantic in style, while at the same time the Impressionist movement, spearheaded by...
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| Roger Norrington |
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Sir Roger Norrington |
Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington, CBE (born 16 March 1934) is a British conductor. He is the son of Sir Arthur Norrington and the brother of Humphrey Thomas Norrington.
Norrington studied at the Dragon School, Westminster School, Clare College,...
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| Carl Ruggles |
Charles "Carl" Sprague Ruggles (March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971) was an American composer of the American Five group. He wrote finely-crafted pieces using "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. His...
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| Edo de Waart |
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Edo de Waart (born 1 June 1941, Amsterdam) is a Dutch conductor, and the Music Director of both the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
De Waart studied oboe, piano and conducting at the Sweelinck Conservatory,...
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| Ambroise Thomas |
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(Charles Louis) Ambroise Thomas (Metz 5 August 1811 - Paris, 12 February 1896) was a French opera composer, best-known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871-1896....
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| Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra |
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The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (traditional Chinese: 香港管弦樂團; pinyin: Xiānggǎng Guǎnxián Yuètuán), commonly abbreviated HKPO (港樂), is the largest symphony orchestra in Hong Kong. First established in 1895 as an amateur orchestra named Sino...
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| Fritz Reiner |
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Frederick Martin “Fritz” Reiner (December 19, 1888 - November 15, 1963) was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.
Reiner was born in Budapest, Hungary to a secular Jewish family that resided in the Pest area of...
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| George Szell |
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George Szell (pronounced /ˈsɛl/) (June 7, 1897 – July 30, 1970), originally György Széll or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. He is remembered today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the...
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| Michael Tilson Thomas |
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Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944), is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is currently music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
Tilson Thomas was born in Los Angeles, California to Ted and Roberta Thomas, Broadway stage...
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| Jukka-Pekka Saraste |
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (born April 22, 1956, Lahti) is a Finnish conductor and violinist.
With the beginning of the 2010/2011 season, Jukka-Pekka Saraste will start his position as Chief Conductor of the WDR Radio Orchestra in Cologne.
Since August...
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| Domenico Dragonetti |
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Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti (April 7, 1763 – April 16, 1846) was an Italian double bass virtuoso. He stayed for thirty years in his hometown of Venice, Italy and worked at the Opera Buffa, at the Chapel of San Marco and at the Grand Opera in...
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| Music for 18 Musicians |
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Music for 18 Musicians is a seminal work of musical minimalism composed by Steve Reich during 1974-1976. Its world premiere was on April 24, 1976 at Town Hall, New York. Following this, a recording of the piece was released by ECM New Series. A...
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| Paavo Järvi | Paavo Jarvi |
Paavo Järvi (born December 30, 1962) is an Estonian-American conductor.
Järvi was born in Tallinn, Estonia, to conductor Neeme Järvi and Liilia Järvi. His siblings, Kristjan Järvi and Maarika Järvi, are also musicians. "A Maestro And His Plans For...
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| Immortal Memory |
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Immortal Memory is an album by ex-Dead Can Dance member Lisa Gerrard and Irish classical composer Patrick Cassidy, released in 2004. It was Gerrard's first studio release since 1998's Duality with Pieter Bourke.
Gerrard first met Cassidy in 2000 in...
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| Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli |
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (January 5, 1920 – June 12, 1995) was an Italian classical pianist.
Born in Brescia, Italy, he began music lessons at the age of three, initially with the violin, but quickly switched to the piano. At ten he entered the...
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| Alban Berg Quartet | Alban Berg Quartett |
The Alban Berg Quartett was a string quartet founded in Vienna, Austria in 1970, named after the famous composer Alban Berg. Its debut performance was in 1971. The widow of the composer attended one of their earliest concerts, and was moved by their...
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| Un Concert pour Mazarin |
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Un Concert pour Mazarin is the title of a music recording released on compact disc in early 2004 by Virgin Classics. It is a performance of 17th century Italian music determined by the conductor, Jean Tubéry (as cited in the Virgin Classics web page...
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| Gary Karr |
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Gary Karr (born November 20, 1941), is an American classical double bass virtuoso and teacher.
Although he comes from seven generations of bassists, he was not encouraged by them to go into music. In an interview with ActiveBass magazine he said...
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| Kamasutra |
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Kamasutra is an instrumental album by The NPG Orchestra released in 1998. The NPG Orchestra is a pseudonym of Prince.
It was included with the Crystal Ball 3-CD set, orderable from Prince's website. It was not included with the set available in...
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| Karl Davidov |
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Karl Juljewitsch Davydov (Russian: Карл Юльевич Давыдов), (15 March [O.S. 3 March] 1838 - 26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1889) was a Russian cellist of great renown during his time, and described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "tsar of cellists"...
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| Zoltán Kocsis |
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Zoltan Kocsis |
Zoltán Kocsis (born May 30, 1952) is a Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer.
Born in Budapest, he started his musical studies at the age of five and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in 1963, studying piano and composition. In...
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| Heavenly Handel |
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Heavenly Handel: Arias and Duets is the title of a music recording Virgin Classics released on two compact discs in early 2004. It is a performance of arias and duets from operas by Georg Friedrich Händel.
The Virgin Classics catalog number for ...
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| Albert Coates |
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Albert Coates (April 23, 1882 – December 11, 1953) was an Anglo-Russian conductor and composer.
Coates was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, the youngest of seven sons of an English father and a Russian mother.
He studied at the conservatory...
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| Niels Wilhelm Gade |
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Niels Wilhelm Gade (22 February 1817 – 21 December 1890) was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. He is considered the most important Danish musician of his day.
Gade was born in Copenhagen, the son of a joiner and...
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| Virgil Fox |
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Virgil Keel Fox (born Princeton, Illinois May 3, 1912– died Palm Beach, Florida October 25, 1980) was an American organist, known especially for his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the music of Bach. These events appealed to audiences in the...
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| L. Shankar |
Lakshminarayanan Shankar (born April 26, 1950), also known as L. Shankar, Shankar or Shenkar, is a violinist, vocalist and composer.
L. Shankar was born in Madras, Tamil Nadu. Growing up in Jaffna, Ceylon, where his father V. Lakshminarayan was a...
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| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra |
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The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra |
The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1880 by Joseph Otten as the St. Louis Choral Society, the SLSO is the second-oldest symphony orchestra in the United States as it is...
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