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Thomas Sleeper
Thomas M. Sleeper (February 16, 1956 – October 15, 2022) was an American composer and conductor. His music has been described as 'hauntingly mysterious' and 'richly lyrical'. He was the Director of Orchestral Activities and Conductor of the University of Miami Frost Symphony Orchestra until his retirement in 2018. He was also the director of the Florida Youth Orchestra from 1993 to 2020. History Sleeper was born in Wagoner, Oklahoma, and was a member of the Cherokee Nation. He received his Bachelor of Music at the University of Texas, and subsequently received his Master of Music at Southern Methodist University, where he studied under Daryl F. Rauscher of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and James Rives-Jones. From 1975 to 1978, while in Austin, Sleeper was active with an avant-garde group of composer/performers called "Fermata". As a member of "Fermata" he worked with composers such as Jerry Willingham, Jerry Hunt and Robert Xavier Rodriguez. At 22 years of age Sleeper was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagoner, Oklahoma
Wagoner is a city in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 8,323 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census,CensusViewer: Population of the City of Wagoner, Oklahoma. Retrieved March 16, 201/ref> compared to the figure of 7,669 recorded in 2000 United States Census, 2000. It is the county seat of Wagoner County. Wagoner became the first city incorporated in Indian Territory on January 4, 1896.Williams, Shirle Lamb. ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. "Wagoner" Retrieved February 26, 201/ref> History Wagoner is along the path of the Texas Road cattle trail, and the later Jefferson Highway of the early National Trail System, both roughly along the route of U.S. Route 69 in Oklahoma, U.S. Route 69 through Oklahoma today. The town began as a small community at the intersection of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) Railway and the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway (later the Missouri Pacific Railway), when William McAnally, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Brant
Henry Dreyfuss Brant (September 15, 1913 – April 26, 2008) was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization techniques. Biography Brant was born in Montreal, to American parents (his father was a violinist), in 1913. Something of a child prodigy, he began composing at the age of eight, and studied first at the McGill Conservatorium (1926–29) and then in New York City (1929–34). He played violin, flute, tin whistle, piano, organ, and percussion at a professional level and was fluent with the playing techniques for all of the standard orchestral instruments. As a 19-year-old, Brant was the youngest composer included in Henry Cowell's landmark book from 1933, ''American Composers on American Music''; and Cowell realized that Brant had already demonstrated an early identification with the American experimental musical tradition. He was represented in Cowell's anthology by an essa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Duykers
John Duykers (born September 30, 1944, in Butte, Montana) is a prominent American operatic tenor, especially known for his work in modern and contemporary opera. He made his formal debut with the Seattle Opera in 1966. Career Since then, Duykers has appeared with the New York City Opera (Don José to Susanne Marsee's Carmen), and the opera companies in Chicago (title part of ''Tannhäuser''), San Francisco (The Hunchback in ''Die Frau ohne Schatten'', with Dame Gwyneth Jones and Anja Silja), Houston (Aegisthus in '' Elektra''), Santa Fe, Los Angeles (Iro in '' Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria''), San Diego (the villainous Enoch Pratt in Carlisle Floyd's '' The Passion of Jonathan Wade''), and Philadelphia (Prince Chouïsky in '' Boris Godunov'', and Herodes in '' Salome''). Abroad, he has been seen at the Royal Opera House, the Netherlands Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève (title role in '' Benvenuto Cellini''), Frankfurt Opera, Opéra de Marseille (Mime in ''Siegfried'') and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Alison
Jane Alison (born 1961) is an Australian author. Early life and education Born in Canberra in 1961, Alison spent two years in Australia as a small child, growing up mainly in the United States as a child of diplomatic parents. She attended public schools in Washington, D.C., and then earned a B.A. in classics from Princeton University in 1983. Before writing fiction, she worked as an administrator for the National Endowment for the Humanities, as a production artist for the Washington City Paper, as an editor for the Miami New Times, and as a proposal and speech writer for Tulane University. She also worked as a freelance editor and illustrator before attending Columbia University to study creative writing. Literary career Alison's first novel, ''The Love-Artist'', was published in 2001 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and has been translated into seven languages. It was followed by ''The Marriage of the Sea'', a New York Times Notable Book of 2003. Her latest novel, ''Natives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Ticciati
Hugo Ticciati (born April 12, 1980) is a British-born violinist, living in Sweden. He has performed in several worldwide events such as the Gotland Chamber Music Festival (Sweden), the St. Denis-Festival (Paris), and the Festival Internacional Cervantino. He has also begun his own Festival called the O/MODƏRNT, in Sweden. Career At the age of twelve he entered the world of fame in the Edinburgh Festival and at Queen Elizabeth Hall. Since then, Ticciati has performed with several orchestras from England, Romania, Sweden, the Far East, Estonia, and the USA. He has performed in the Baltic Sea Festival in Sweden, at Carnegie Hall, and the Hermitage Music Festival held in St Petersburg. Ticciati currently gives regular concerts in important halls in Europe and in the Far East. He plays accompanied by pianists such as Staffan Scheja, Svetlana Navarssadian, Sophia Rahman, Michael Tsalka and Henrik Måwe. Hugo gives masterclasses and seminars on violin teaching and lectures on musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dania Beach, Florida
Dania Beach (Dania until 1998) is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 31,723. It is part of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010 census. Dania Beach is the location of one of the largest jai alai frontons in the United States, The Casino at Dania Beach. It was formerly the location for two amusement centers; one named Boomers! (formerly Grand Prix Race-O-Rama), which housed the Dania Beach Hurricane roller coaster, and the other being Pirates World amusement park, which was featured in Barry Mahon's ''Thumbelina''. It is also home to the International Game Fish Association Hall of Fame and Museum. History The area was started as a neighborhood called Modello in the late 19th century."Voters go for a New Identity, Change Name to Dania Beach". '' Sun-Sentinel''. November 4, 1998. In November 1904, the area was incorporated as the town of Dania, because most of the 35 res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Zeniodi
Zoe Zeniodi (Greek: Ζωή Ζενιώδη, born 13 February 1976) is a conductor from Greece. She is currently the Artistic Director of El Sistema Greece. She is the first woman conductor to ever perform with Opera Southwest. She has been selected by the Dallas Opera for the residency of the Institute of Women Conductors, 2016. and a Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship Mentee. Zoe Zeniodi, hailed by the press as “Ms Dynamite”, has an international career which has led her to collaborations with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Queensland, New Zealand Opera, Opera Southwest, Florida Grand Opera, Gürzenich-Orchester, Orchestre National Avignon-Provence, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, among others. She has conducted in venues such as the Paris Philharmonie, Teatro Colón and Carnegie Hall and has conducted orchestras such as the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra Wellington, Christchur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James William Hipp
J. William “Bill” Hipp (b. May 2, 1934) is an American music educator and administrator. He served as the fourth dean of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami from 1983 to 2007.Hipp Named Dean of School of Music: Miami Hurricane, April 19, 1983, University of Miami He served as the president of the National Association of Schools of Music from 1998 to 2000 and was inducted into the Florida Music Education Association Hall of Fame in 2002.fmea.org/programs/awards/ Early years Hipp was born in Guntersville, Alabama. A trumpet player, he earned a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree in music education from University of Texas at Austin, where he later became a teaching assistant and administrative assistant to the dean of the College of Fine Arts. Career Hipp taught for four years as a junior high and high school band director in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 1964 he joined the music faculty of Del Mar College where he taught brass instruments for nine yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Navy Band
The United States Navy Band, based at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., has served as the official musical organization of the U.S. Navy since 1925. The U.S. Navy Band serves the ceremonial needs at the seat of government, performing at presidential inaugurations, state arrival ceremonies, state funerals, state dinners, and other significant events. The band performs all styles of music – from ceremonial pieces such as "ruffles and flourishes" to classical, rock, jazz and country hits. Organization and personnel Since its official designation in 1925, the United States Navy Band has grown into a diverse organization of multiple performing units. The organization features six performing ensembles: the Concert Band, the Ceremonial Band, the Commodores jazz ensemble, Country Current country-bluegrass ensemble, the Cruisers contemporary entertainment ensemble, and the Sea Chanters chorus. There are also several chamber music groups. The multiple ensembles help mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Rodriguez (pianist)
Santiago Rodriguez (born February 16, 1952) is a Cuban-American pianist. Rodriguez is an exclusive recording artist for Élan Recordings.Mangan (March 8, 1991) His Rachmaninov recordings received the Rosette award in ''The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music'' and he is a silver medalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Background Rodriguez was born in Cárdenas, Cuba, and began piano studies at age four with Nelson DeBerge. When Rodriguez was eight years old, he and his brother became part of Project Peter Pan, a project sponsored by Catholic Charities which brought Cuban children to America during Fidel Castro’s regime. Although his parents originally thought that they would be quickly reunited, it took six years for the parents to immigrate to America. He continued his piano lessons while living in the orphanage in New Orleans supported by money that his mother had sewn in his coat. When he was ten years old, Rodriguez debuted with the New Orleans Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Green (conductor)
Gary Green is an American conductor, specializing in the wind band. Green is a champion of new music for the wind band, and has commissioned works by such composers as Eric Whitacre, Michael Colgrass, Kenneth Fuchs, David Maslanka, Mark Camphouse, and Christopher Rouse. On 29 March 2007, he premiered Rouse's '' Wolf Rounds'' at Carnegie Hall in New York with the University of Miami-Frost Wind Ensemble. In February 2006, he conducted the East Coast Premiere of David Maslanka's ''Mass'' after the composer's 2005 revision, which was performed by the University of Miami School of Music's Frost Wind Ensemble, Choral Union, and Miami Children's Chorus, featuring soloists Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano and Jeffrey Morrissey, baritone. He was most recently professor and chair, Department of Instrumental Performance, and director of bands at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, where he taught wind band conducting and literature and served as the conductor of the Wind En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fibonacci Number
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted , form a sequence, the Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. The sequence commonly starts from 0 and 1, although some authors start the sequence from 1 and 1 or sometimes (as did Fibonacci) from 1 and 2. Starting from 0 and 1, the first few values in the sequence are: :0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144. The Fibonacci numbers were first described in Indian mathematics, as early as 200 BC in work by Pingala on enumerating possible patterns of Sanskrit poetry formed from syllables of two lengths. They are named after the Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, later known as Fibonacci, who introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics in his 1202 book ''Liber Abaci''. Fibonacci numbers appear unexpectedly often in mathematics, so much so that there is an entire journal dedicated to their study, the ''Fibonacci Quarterly''. Applications of Fibonacci numbers include co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
