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Tolga Kashif
Tolga Kashif (Tolga Kaşif) (born 1962) is a British born musical conductor, composer, orchestrator, producer and arranger of Turkish Cypriot descent. Early life Turkish-Cypriot Tolga Kashif was born in London. Before going on to further education, Kashif went to Forest School. His compositional and conducting studies at the Royal College of Music led him subsequently to Bristol University with Derek Bourgeois. He had his professional début with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, resulting in further collaborations with the City of London Sinfonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Northern Sinfonia and the Wren Orchestra. He has been the Music Director of the London Amadeus Choir, which is thought to have influenced the choral elements of ''Queen Symphony''. In 1992 he became the Associate Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has enjoyed many successful orchestral concerts, particularly at the Barbican Arts Centre (formerly Barbican Hall). Kashif's work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Cypriot
Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( tr, Kıbrıs Türkleri or ''Kıbrıslı Türkler''; el, Τουρκοκύπριοι, Tourkokýprioi) are ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,000 Turkish settlers were given land once they arrived in Cyprus.. Additionally, many of the island's local Christians converted to Islam during the early years of Ottoman rule.. Nonetheless, the influx of mainly Muslim settlers to Cyprus continued intermittently until the end of the Ottoman period.. Today, while Northern Cyprus is home to a significant part of the Turkish Cypriot population, the majority of Turkish Cypriots live abroad, forming the Turkish Cypriot diaspora. This diaspora came into existence after the Ottoman Empire transferred the control of the island to the British Empire, as many Turkish Cypriots emigrated primarily to Turkey and the United Kingdom for political and economic reasons. Standard Turkish is the official l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfect Day (Lou Reed Song)
"Perfect Day" is a song written by American musician Lou Reed in 1972. It was originally featured on ''Transformer'', Reed's second post–Velvet Underground solo album, and as a double A-side with his major hit, " Walk on the Wild Side". Its fame was given a boost in the 1990s when it was featured in the 1996 film '' Trainspotting'' and after a star-studded version was released as a BBC charity single in 1997, reaching number one in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Norway. Reed re-recorded the song for his 2003 album ''The Raven''. Recording and composition The original recording, as with the rest of the ''Transformer'' album, was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson (who also wrote the string arrangement and played piano on the track). The song has a sombre vocal delivery and a slow, piano-based instrumental backing. The song was written after Reed and his then fiancée (later his first wife), Bettye Kronstad, spent a day in Central Park. The lyric is often considered to sug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flutes
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist or flutist. Flutes are the earliest known identifiable musical instruments, as paleolithic examples with hand-bored holes have been found. A number of flutes dating to about 53,000 to 45,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Jura region of present-day Germany. These flutes demonstrate that a developed musical tradition existed from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe.. Citation on p. 248. * While the oldest flutes currently known were found in Europe, Asia, too, has a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strings (music)
A string is the vibrating element that produces sound in string instruments such as the guitar, harp, piano (piano wire), and members of the violin family. Strings are lengths of a flexible material that a musical instrument holds under tension so that they can vibrate freely, but controllably. Strings may be "plain", consisting only of a single material, like steel, nylon, or gut, or wound, having a "core" of one material and an overwinding of another. This is to make the string vibrate at the desired pitch, while maintaining a low profile and sufficient flexibility for playability. The invention of wound strings, such as nylon covered in wound metal, was a crucial step in string instrument technology, because a metal-wound string can produce a lower pitch than a catgut string of similar thickness. This enabled stringed instruments to be made with less thick bass strings. On string instruments that the player plucks or bows directly (e.g., double bass), this enabled inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMI Classics
EMI Classics was a record label founded by Thorn EMI in 1990 to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogues for internationally distributed classical music releases. After Thorn EMI demerged in 1996, its recorded music division became the EMI Group. Following the European Commission's approval of the takeover of EMI Group by Universal Music in September 2012, EMI Classics was listed for divestment. The label was sold to Warner Music Group, which absorbed EMI Classics into Warner Classics in 2013. Classical recordings were formerly simultaneously released under combinations of Angel, Seraphim, Odeon, Columbia, His Master's Voice, and other labels, in part because competitors own these names in various countries. These were moved under the EMI Classics umbrella to avoid the trademark problems. Prior to this, compact discs distributed globally bore the Angel Records recording angel logo that EMI owned globally. Releases created for distribution in spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Nuttall
Amy Abigail Nuttall (born 7 June 1982) is an English actress and singer known for playing Chloe Atkinson in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'' from 2000 until 2005, and housemaid Ethel Parks in ITV period drama ''Downton Abbey''. Early life Nuttall was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. She was educated at Bury Grammar School for Girls and trained at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. She performed with the National Youth Music Theatre, notably playing the lead role of Princess Ismene in ''Aurelius'' at the Tyne Opera House, Newcastle and the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh in August 1997. Career Nuttall is credited as the youngest actress to ever understudy and play the lead role of Christine in ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (at age 17) (National tour), has sung at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Old Trafford and won an edition of ''Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes'' as Sarah Brightman. Shortly before leaving ''Emmerdale'', Nuttall appeared in ''Notes from New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Metropolitan Orchestra
The culture of London concerns the music, museums, festivals and lifestyle within London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. London has frequently been described as a global cultural capital and is one of the world's leading business centres, renowned for its technological readiness and economic clout, as well as attracting the most foreign investment of any global city. As such, London has often been ranked as the world's capital city. The city is particularly renowned for its theatre quarter, and its West End theatre district has given the name to "West End theatre", the strand of mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in London. London is also home to notable cultural attractions such as the British Museum, the Tate Galleries, the National Gallery, the Notting Hill Carnival and The O2. Through music, comedy and theatre, London has a lively nightlife with approximately 25.6 events per thousand people, 44.1% of those events being theatre based. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variations Part I&II
''Variations Part I&II'' is Croatian pianist Maksim Mrvica's third album, including his first (non-international) album, "Gestures". Track listing #Kolibre (Tonči Huljić) - 3:45 # Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) - 4:05 #Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Ryuichi Sakamoto) - 3:50 #Totentanz ( Franz Liszt) - 4:41 #Olympic Dream (David Essex) - 3:48 #Amazonic (Tonči Huljić) - 3:20 #LeeLoo's Tune (Tonči Huljić) - 3:52 #Procession of The Sardar (from Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1) (Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov) - 4:10 #Bohemian Rhapsody ( Freddie Mercury) - 6:41 #Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Mussorgsky) - 12:28 #Etude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 12 ( Alexander Scriabin) - 4:12 #Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 in E-flat Major ( Frédéric Chopin) - 5:00 #Aria From Goldberg Variations (Johann Sebastian Bach) - 3:58 #Pagrag (Niccolò Paganini Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maksim Mrvica
Maksim Mrvica (; born 3 May 1975) is a Croatian pianist. He plays classical crossover Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audience. This can be seen, for example, (especially in the United States) when a song appears on two or more of the record charts which track differ ... music. Biography Mrvica was born in Šibenik, Croatia. He took piano lessons at the age of nine.Mrvica to dazzle on the ivories ''Taipei Times'', April 16, 2004. Retrieved 2011-04-11. Three years later he gave his first concert performance of Joseph Haydn, Haydn's Piano Concerto in C major. When Serbian aggression started in 1991, both Mrvica and his professor were determined that this would not disrupt his music studies. In spite of the war and surrounding turbulen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Classical Records
Sony Classical is an American record label founded in 1924 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records. In 1980, the Columbia Masterworks label was renamed as CBS Masterworks Records. The CBS Records Group was acquired by Sony in 1988, and in 1990 it was renamed Sony Classical Records. Artists Sony Classical represents artists including: *Alexis Ffrench *James Horner *Yo-Yo Ma *Igor Levit *Jonas Kaufmann *Glenn Gould *Wiener Philharmoniker *Joshua Bell *Hans Zimmer * John Williams *Khatia Buniatishvili * Arthur Rubinstein *Eugene Ormandy *Leonard Bernstein *Teodor Currentzis * Arcadi Volodos *Christian Gerhaher *Vladimir Horowitz *Dirk Maassen *Christoph Koncz *Pasquale Grasso *Ivo Pogorelich *Martin Fröst *Leif Ove Andsnes *Lavinia Meije Presidents * 1997: Peter Gelb (NY) * 2009–2019: Bogdan Roscic * 2019: Per Hauber See also * List of record labels File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choreography (Vanessa-Mae Album)
''Choreography'' is the eighth and most recent album by Vanessa-Mae featuring work by Vangelis, Bill Whelan, A. R. Rahman, Tolga Kashif, and Walter Taieb. She performs with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. "Emerald Tiger" is a composition by ''Riverdances Whelan, an Irish/Asian fusion. "Raga's Dance", by Indian Composer A. R. Rahman, is a piece that mixes Carnatic instruments and vocals to a large symphonic orchestration. "Bolero for Violin and Orchestra" is a tribute to Ravel's '' Boléro'', and features a darbuka. "Tribal Gathering" is a minimalist composition in the vein of John Adams but with a live Afro percussion rhythm beneath. "Bolero", "Tango de los Exilados", and "Tribal Gathering" were composed by the European composer Walter Taieb (''The Alchemist's Symphony''). The track "Handel's Minuet" was produced by Vanessa-Mae, and is the first, and currently only, track she has ever produced for one of her own albums. Track listing # "Sabre Dance" (Aram Khachaturian) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marmite
Marmite ( ) is a British savoury food spread based on yeast extract, invented by the German scientist Justus von Liebig. It is made from by-products of beer brewing ( lees) and is produced by the British company Unilever. Marmite is a vegan source of B vitamins, including supplemental vitamin B12. A traditional method of use is to spread it very thinly on buttered toast. Marmite is a sticky, dark brown paste with a distinctive, salty, powerful flavour and heady aroma. This distinctive taste is represented in the marketing slogan: "Love it or hate it." Such is its prominence in British popular culture that Marmite is often used as a metaphor for something that is an acquired taste or polarises opinion. Marmite is commonly used as a flavouring, as it is particularly rich in umami due to its very high levels of glutamate (1960 mg/100g). The image on the jar shows a ''marmite'' (), a French term for a large, covered earthenware or metal cooking pot. Marmite was original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
