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Melinda O'Neal
Melinda O'Neal is a conductor of choral and choral-orchestral music, professor emerita of music, and author. O'Neal was music director and conductor of the Handel Society of Dartmouth College (oratorio society of 100 student and community voices) 1979–2004, and founder and conductor of Dartmouth College Chamber Singers (30-voices) 1979-1996. She was professor of music at Dartmouth College 1979–2018, leading ensembles and teaching courses in conducting, vocal literature, Berlioz and Brahms, and music theory. In 2016 and 2017 O'Neal taught choral literature courses for conducting graduate students at Indiana University. She was visiting professor at Towson University (MD) 2005, Indiana University 1999, and University of Georgia 1996-97. As an independent conductor, O'Neal was artistic director and conductor of Handel Choir of Baltimore 2004-2013, inaugurating both the Handel Period Instrument Orchestra and Chandos Singers. She co-founded and led the Boston Vocal Artists' Sonique ...
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Choral
A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words is the music performed by the ensemble. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which spans from the Medieval music, medieval era to the present, or popular music repertoire. Most choirs are led by a conducting, conductor, who leads the performances with arm, hand, and facial gestures. The term ''choir'' is very often applied to groups affiliated with a church (whether or not they actually occupy the Choir (architecture), quire), whereas a ''chorus'' performs in theatres or concert halls, but this distinction is not rigid. Choirs may sing without instruments, or accompanied by a piano, accordion, pipe organ, a small ensemble, or an orchestra. A choir can be a subset of an ensemble; thus one speaks of the "woodwind c ...
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Florida State University College Of Music
The Florida State University College of Music, located in Tallahassee, Florida, is one of sixteen colleges comprising Florida State University. The college houses two Grammy winners, a former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, a former leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, and the world's leading scholar in music therapy. As the third-largest music program in higher education, the college's comprehensive curricula embrace all traditional areas of music and world music study from the baccalaureate to the doctoral level. Notable people Alumni * David Cordle, current Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Emporia State University. Faculty * Leon Anderson * Scotty Barnhart *Yvonne Ciannella * Ernst von Dohnányi *Carlisle Floyd * Janice Harsanyi * Edward Kilenyi *Ladislav Kubík * Stanford Olsen *Marcus Roberts Marthaniel "Marcus" Roberts (born August 7, 1963) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, ...
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons a ...
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Dartmouth College Faculty
Dartmouth may refer to: Places * Dartmouth, Devon, England ** Dartmouth Harbour ** Dartmouth (UK Parliament constituency) * Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States * Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada * Dartmouth, Victoria, Australia Institutions * Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States ** Dartmouth Big Green, athletic teams representing the college ** '' The Dartmouth'', a newspaper of Dartmouth College * Dartmouth University, a defunct university (1817–1819) in New Hampshire * University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, a university in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States * Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, a research hospital in Lebanon, New Hampshire * Britannia Royal Naval College or Dartmouth, a college in Dartmouth, Devon, England Ships * ''Dartmouth'' (1655), a 22-gun ship * HMS ''Dartmouth'' (1693), a 48-gun fourth rate * HMS ''Dartmouth'' (1698), a 50-gun fourth rate * HMS ''Dartmouth'' (1910), a Town-class c ...
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Joseph Flummerfelt
Joseph Flummerfelt (February 24, 1937 – March 1, 2019) was an American conductor. He taught at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey for three decades. He was a co-founder of the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the List of municipalities in South Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atla ... in 1977, and its director of choral activities from 1977 to 2013. He was also the chorus master of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Italy from 1971 to 1993. According to ''The New York Times'', he "played an outsize, if not always highly visible, role in American classical music." References {{DEFAULTSORT:Flummerfelt, Joseph 1937 births 2019 deaths People from Vincennes, Indiana DePauw University alumni American male conductors (music) 20th-century American conductors (music) 21st-c ...
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Thomas Dunn (musician)
Thomas Burt Dunn (December 21, 1925 – October 26, 2008) was an American musician, conductor and music editor known for his performances of Baroque music. He is considered an important figure in the development of the 20th-century early music revival and adoption of historically informed performance practices in the United States. Early years Dunn was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, on December 21, 1925, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of educator Wendell E. Dunn and younger brother of chemical engineer-inventor Wendell E. Dunn, Jr. He was also the nephew of civil engineer Everett Dunn. He loved music as a child and at about age 11 he was named assistant organist of a Baltimore church. At 16 he became the organist of another local church and was named director of its professional choir not long afterward. He studied at Johns Hopkins University and in 1946 received his bachelor's degree from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied organ with Virgil Fox and E. P ...
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John Nelson (conductor)
John Wilton Nelson (December 6, 1941 – March 31, 2025) was an American conductor known for his productions of the music of Hector Berlioz. Life and career Nelson's parents were American Protestant missionaries. He studied at Wheaton College (Illinois), Wheaton College and later at the Juilliard School of Music with Jean Paul Morel, Jean Morel. Nelson was music director of the Greenwich Philharmonia in Connecticut and the New Jersey Pro Arte Chorale, and also served on the conducting staff of the Metropolitan Opera. In 1972, he conducted his New York City opera debut at Carnegie Hall in an uncut performance of Berlioz's ''Les Troyens''. With the Metropolitan Opera, his professional opera conducting debut was also with ''Les Troyens'', on one day's notice as an emergency substitute for Rafael Kubelík. Nelson was music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra from 1976 to 1987, making commercial recordings there of music by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Charles Martin Loeffle ...
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Marcel Couraud
Marcel Just Théodore Marie Couraud (20 October 1912 in Limoges – 14 September 1986 in Loches) was a French orchestral and choral conductor and organist. Biography Couraud studied organ with André Marchal in Paris where he attended the Ecole Normale de Musique. He also took courses in composition with Nadia Boulanger and conducting with Charles Munch.Alain Pâris. ''Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interpretation musicale au XX siècle.'' Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1995 (p323-324). In 1944 he founded the ''Ensemble Vocal Marcel-Couraud'', with whom he performed chansons and madrigals of the Renaissance period (including Orlando di Lasso and Claudio Monteverdi) as well as works by contemporary composers such as ''Trois Petites Liturgies de la présence divine'' by Olivier Messiaen. He led the ensemble and also served as the choral director of the Maîtrise de Radio France until 1954 and then conducted the Bach Choir and Bach Orchestra Stuttgart. He also commiss ...
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Helmuth Rilling
Helmuth Rilling (born 29 May 1933) is a German choral conductor and an academic teacher. He is the founder of the Gächinger Kantorei (1954), the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (1965), the Oregon Bach Festival (1970), the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart (1981) and other Bach Academies worldwide, as well as the "Festival Ensemble Stuttgart" (2001) and the "Junges Stuttgarter Bach Ensemble" (2011). He taught choral conducting at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule from 1965 to 1989 and led the Frankfurter Kantorei from 1969 to 1982. Education Rilling was born into a musical family. He received his early training at the Protestant Seminaries in Württemberg. From 1952 to 1955 he studied organ, composition, and choral conducting at the Stuttgart College of Music. He completed his studies with Fernando Germani in Rome and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. While still a student in 1954, he founded his first choir, the Gächinger Kantorei. Starting in 1957, he was organi ...
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Fiora Contino
Fiora Corradetti Contino (June 17, 1925 – March 5, 2017) was an American opera conductor and teacher.image She was particularly known for her interpretations of Italian ''verismo'' works of the late 19th century, and was described as one of the most important figures in opera of the 20th century. Anne Midgette of ''The New York Times'' once suggested that she "might have had a far bigger career had she been a man". Early life and education Fiora d'Itala Rosa Corradetti was born in 1925 on Long Island in Lynbrook to Italian immigrant parents. Her mother was Anna Corradetti (née Lisarelli), a seamstress; her father, , had been a noted baritone singer at La Scala and other European venues. Fiora Corradetti had no strong singing voice, and said later that she "had no voice but learned as a conductor to sing vicariously". She studied piano and later conducting. She had an older half sister, Iris, who was an opera singer and vocal coach. At the age of 12, she was appointed as t ...
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Jan Harrington
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * ''Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * ''Journal of Advanced Nursing'' Personal name * Jan (name), male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name * Ran (surname), romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles * Ján, Slovak name Other uses * January, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Jan (cards), a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring a m ...
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Julius Herford
Julius may refer to: People * Julius (name), a masculine given name and surname (includes a list of people with the name) * Julius (nomen), the name of a Roman family (includes a list of Ancient Romans with the name) ** Julius Caesar (100–44 BC), Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men of classical antiquity * Julius (judge royal) (fl. before 1135), noble in the Kingdom of Hungary * Julius, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1812–1884), German noble * Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528–1589), German noble Arts and entertainment * Julius (''Everybody Hates Chris''), a character from the American sitcom * "Julius" (song), by Phish, 1994 Other uses * Julius (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee at Kristiansand Zoo and Amusement Park in Norway * Julius (month), the month of the ancient Roman calendar originally called ''Quintilis'' and renamed for Julius Caesar * Julius (restaurant), a tavern in Greenwich Village, New York City * Julius (software), a ...
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