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Harmonica Concerto
Since the 1940s, a number of concertos have been written for the harmonica. Nearly all harmonica concertos are composed for the chromatic harmonica. One of the few exceptions is the 2001 concerto for the 10-hole harmonica by Howard Levy. Such works include: * Malcolm Arnold: Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra (Arnold), Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra, Op. 46 (1954, composed for Larry Adler) * Milton Barnes (composer), Milton Barnes - Concerto for Harmonica and Strings (for Tommy Reilly (harmonica player), Tommy Reilly) * Arthur Benjamin - Harmonica Concerto (1953, for Larry Adler) * Jean-François Marcoux - Harmonica Concerto Le sommeil des voeux (1990) et Harmonica concerto 'ôde à Siguer' et Le meilleur don de la conscience * Robert Russell Bennett - Concerto (1974) * Jean Berger - Caribbean Concerto (1940, for Larry Adler) * Henry Cowell Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra (1962, for John Sebastian (classical harmonica player), John Sebastian) * Norman Dello Joio - Co ...
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Chromonica
Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of musical instruments, founded in 1857 by Matthias Hohner (1833–1902). The roots of the Hohner firm are in Trossingen, Baden-Württemberg. Since its foundation, and though known for its harmonicas, Hohner has manufactured a wide range of instruments, such as kazoos, accordions, recorder flutes, melodicas, banjos, electric, acoustic, resonator and classical guitars, basses, mandolins and ukuleles (under the brand name ''Lanikai'') From the 1940s through 1990s, the company also manufactured various electric/electronic keyboards. Especially in the 1960s and 1990s, they manufactured a range of innovative and popular electromechanical keyboard instruments; the cembalet, pianet, basset, guitaret, and clavinet. In the 1980s, several Casio synthesizers (such as the Casio HT-3000/Hohner KS61midi and the VZ-1/HS-2) were sold under the Hohner brand. Nowadays, Hohner produces harmonicas, melodicas, accordions and ...
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John Sebastian (classical Harmonica Player)
John Sebastian (born John Sebastian Pulisi; April 25, 1914Sebastian, John, no. 165-12-7646 (official death record, also showing date of birth). U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935–2014, available online at Ancestry.com, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2015. Non-official sources such as books and articles have sometimes listed Sebastian's birth date as May 1, 1914, or his birth year as 1916. − August 18, 1980)"John Sebastian, 65, Who Helped Make Harmonica Classical, Dies," ''The New York Times'', August 20, 1980, p. B10. Although this obituary reports Sebastian's age at death as 65, he would have actually been 66 based on his birth date of April 25, 1914 as listed in the official U.S. Social Security Death Index record. was an American musician and composer known as a master of the classical chromatic harmonica. He was the first harmonicist to adopt an all-classical repertoire and, along with Larry Adler and Tommy Reilly, established the harmonica as a serious instrument for class ...
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Claude Garden
Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher traditionally called just "Claude" in English * Madame Claude, French brothel keeper Fernande Grudet (1923–2015) Places * Claude, Texas, a city * Claude, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Other uses * Allied reporting name of the Mitsubishi A5M Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft * Claude (alligator) Claude is an albino alligator ('' Alligator mississippiensis'') at the California Academy of Sciences. Claude lacks the pigment melanin, resulting in colorless skin, and he has poor eyesight associated with his albinism. Background Claude was ha ..., an albino alligator at the California Academy of Sciences See also * Claude's syndrome, a form of brainstem stroke syndrome {{disambig, geo ...
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Henri Sauguet
Henri-Pierre Sauguet-Poupard (18 May 1901 – 22 June 1989) was a French composer. Born in Bordeaux, he adopted his mother's maiden name as part of his professional pseudonym. His output includes operas, ballets, four symphonies (1945, 1949, 1955, 1971), concertos, chamber and choral music and numerous songs, as well as film music. Although he experimented with musique concrète and expanded tonality, he remained opposed to particular systems and his music evolved little: he developed tonal or modal ideas in smooth curves, producing an art of clarity, simplicity and restraint. Career Sauguet started learning the piano at home when he was five years old. Later he was taught by the organist of the church of Sainte-Eulalie de Bordeaux. On the mobilization of his father in 1914, he was required to earn a living at a very young age. Eventually employed by the Prefecture of Montauban in 1919–1920, he formed a friendship with Joseph Canteloube, a former pupil of Vincent d'Indy. ...
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Frank Lewin
Frank Lewin (March 27, 1925 – January 18, 2008) was an American composer and teacher. Biography Frank Lewin was born March 27, 1925, in Breslau, Germany. He and his family escaped from Germany in 1939, spent a year in Cuba, and came to the United States in 1940. Lewin studied composition with Felix Deyo at the Baldwin Conservatory (Long Island, New York); Jack Frederick Kilpatrick and Hans David at Southern Methodist University; Roy Harris in Logan, Utah; and Richard Donovan and Paul Hindemith at the Yale School of Music, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1951. Lewin composed and edited music for feature, documentary, and television films, including dozens of original scores for The Defenders and The Nurses. He wrote incidental music for plays from William Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams, and composed scores for historical outdoor dramas by Paul Green and others, in various parts of the country. He also wrote a number of concert compositions incl ...
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Alan Langford
Alan Langford was the pen name of Alan Owen (28 February 1928 – 9 February 2011) a British radio producer and composer of light music.Philip LaneAlan Langford biography ''Naxos Music'', accessed 16 November 2010 Born in London, he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Benjamin Frankel.Philip LaneVintage TV and Radio Classics CD note For many years he was a BBC music producer for programmes such as ''Matinée Musicale'' and '' Friday Night is Music Night'', and thus used his pseudonym to disguise his sideline in composition. He is no relation of fellow light composer Gordon Langford. He is known for works such as ''Diversion and Interludes'', the ''Three Amusements'', ''Little French Suite'', ''Riding High'', ''Petite Promenade'' (a staple of the BBC Test Card transmission music repertoire), the ''Waltz for String Orchestra'', the ''Concertante for Harmonica and Strings'' (written in 1981 for Tommy Reilly), the ''Two Worlds Overture'' and the ''Pastoral S ...
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Serge Lancen
Serge Jean Mathieu Lancen (5 November 1922 – 10 July 2005) was a French composer and classical pianist. Life Born in Paris, already in his earliest childhood Lancen developed an extraordinary interest in music. He completed the Conservatoire de Paris in piano with Marguerite Long and Lazare Lévy, harmony, counterpoint and musical composition with Tony Aubin and Noël Gallon. His exams were awarded a first prize. In 1950 he received the 2nd Prix de Rome for his cantata ''Bettina'', the French Radio Composition Prize and other prizes and awards. His oeuvre includes numerous compositions ranging from symphonic music to chamber music, concertos for piano, flute, double bass and harp, as well as two ballets and a chamber opera. Since 1960 he has devoted himself particularly to the creation of works for symphonic wind orchestra. His friend Désiré Dondeyne introduced him to this medium. Lancen died in Paris on 10 July 2005. Works Pieces for Orchestra * 1964 ''Charlot'' * ...
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Karl-Heinz Köper
Karl-Heinz is a German given name, composed of Karl and Heinz but with a hyphen dash. Notable people with that name include: * Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer, German Bishop * Karl-Heinz Feldkamp (born 1934), football coach and former player * Karl-Heinz Florenz (born 1947), German Member of the European Parliament * Karl-Heinz Granitza (born 1951), German football player * Karl-Heinz Grasser (born 1969), Austrian politician * Karl-Heinz Greisert (1908-1942), German World War II Luftwaffe Ace * Karl-Heinz Irmer (1903-1975), German field hockey player * Karl-Heinz Keitel (born 1914), Waffen-SS officer and son of Wilhelm Keitel * Karl-Heinz Kipp, German businessperson * Karl-Heinz Köpcke, (1922–1991), German journalist * Karl-Heinz "Charly" Körbel (born 1954), German former professional football defender * Karl-Heinz Krüger (born 1953), retired boxer * Karl-Heinz Kunde (born 1938), former German cyclist * Karl-Heinz Lambertz (born 1952), jurist and politician * Karl-Heinz Luc ...
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George Kleinsinger
George Kleinsinger (February 13, 1914, San Bernardino, California – July 28, 1982, New York City, New York) was an American composer. His works include his collaboration with Paul Tripp on the 1940s children's classical-music piece " Tubby the Tuba". He also wrote the music for the phonograph record ''Archy & Mehitabel'' and the Broadway musical ''Shinbone Alley ''Shinbone Alley'' (sometimes performed as ''archy & mehitabel'') is a musical with a book by Joe Darion and Mel Brooks, lyrics by Darion, and music by George Kleinsinger. Based on the album ''Archy and Mehitabel: A Back-Alley Opera'', which in ...'', based on the record. For the last 25 years of his life, he was a resident at New York's famous Chelsea Hotel. ReferencesHistory of "Tubby the Tuba"at official site. Retrieved April 9, 2007. External links * * * 1914 births 1982 deaths 20th-century classical composers American male composers Musicians from California 20th-century American composers 20th-c ...
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Alan Hovhaness
Alan Hovhaness (; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American- Armenian composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and 434 opus numbers. The true tally is well over 500 surviving works, since many opus numbers comprise two or more distinct works. '' The Boston Globe'' music critic Richard Buell wrote: "Although he has been stereotyped as a self-consciously Armenian composer (rather as Ernest Bloch is seen as a Jewish composer), his output assimilates the music of many cultures. What may be most American about all of it is the way it turns its materials into a kind of exoticism. The atmosphere is hushed, reverential, mystical, nostalgic." Early life He was born as Alan Vaness Chakmakjian ( hy, Ալան Յարութիւն Չաքմաքճեան)Julia Michaelyan"An Interview with Alan Hovhaness" ''Ararat'' 45, v. 12, no. 1 (Winter 1971), pp. 19–31. Repr ...
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Hugo Herrmann
Hugo or HUGO may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Hugo'' (film), a 2011 film directed by Martin Scorsese * Hugo Award, a science fiction and fantasy award named after Hugo Gernsback * Hugo (franchise), a children's media franchise based on a troll ** ''Hugo'' (game show), a television show that first ran from 1990 to 1995 ** ''Hugo'' (video game), several video games released between 1991 and 2000 * ''Hugo'' (stylised as ''hugo''), a 2022 album by British rapper Loyle Carner People and fictional characters * Victor Hugo, a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. * Hugo (name), including lists of people with Hugo as a given name or surname, as well as fictional characters * Hugo (musician), Thai-American actor and singer-songwriter Chulachak Chakrabongse (born 1981) Places in the United States * Hugo, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Hugo, Colorado, a Statutory Town * Hugo, Minnesota, a town * Hugo, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Hugo, ...
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Richard Hayman
Richard Hayman (March 27, 1920 – February 5, 2014) was an American musician who was the chief music arranger of the Boston Pops Orchestra for over 50 years, and served as a pops conductor for orchestras including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony and the Grand Rapids Symphony in Grand Rapids, Michigan."Richard Hayman, a Pops Concert Figure in St. Louis and Boston, Dies at 93,"
by Peter Keepnews (born 1950), '','' February 6, 2014
He toured and recorded as a harmonica player and made dozens of recordings for Mercury Records as "Richard Hayman ...
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