Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States was formed in 1984. Wingate is an award-winning composer & musicologist who Assistant Professor of Composition and director of the new center for electroacoustic music.
The expression _to grease someone's palm_ has its roots in ancient Rome, when Pliny the Younger referred to unguentarium, which translates as “ointment money.” Related phrases are greases someone's palm, greased someone's palm, greasing someone's palm. - internet machine
"The band, according to wiki was a Canadian-British hard rock power trio that was active in the early 1970s. Bass, Vocals - Reid Hudson Drums, Vibraphone, Percussion - Tony Newman Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar, Vocals - James Black This is their first of three studio releases. "
aka Wilfred Gerald Edwards (1938 – 15 August 1992) known as Jackie Edwards, was a Jamaican musician, songwriter and record producer. Strongly influenced by Nat King Cole, he began performing at the age of 14. It was introduced in Howard Hughes' last film One Minute to Zero as the instrumental titled "Theme from One Minute to Zero". Jeri Southern sang on the first vocal recording released in April 1952. The first hit recording by Doris Day came out later that same year. I remember being struck by the song as it wafted out of a practice room at the Crane School of Music. John Rohde was in there playing it on his tenor. He and I were both in heartbreak zone. In that spirit, I picked out another song of similar sentiment (and equally beautiful) to include on the program for my senior recital -- If I Love Again, from Funny Lady. Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice sang it. See link. Larry Ham played the piano with me.
"Counter tenor Scholl with Tamar Halperin, piano. Lyrics: Wheels turn, clatter, noise Steel tracks getting warm Turn and run to the East Hide, but pray to the beast All my hearts are alive All my hope, deep inside Hats in front, knives behind West is lost White and black turns the earth I hope to know and feel safe One day"
Jacobs appears to be the name of someone who offers on-line vocal training via a website and YouTube videos. This is excerpted from a standard warm-up exercise for singers.
"aka Clara Ann Fowler was born into a large and poor family of 11 children (3 boys and 8 girls).[3][4] Her father, B.A. Fowler, worked on the MKT railroad, while her mother, Margaret, and older sisters picked cotton. As she recalled on television many years later, the family lived without electricity, so she could not read after dark...her break came in 1951, with a cover of +Would I Love You (Love You, Love You)+, which had been a hit for Doris Day.
"_Old Lisbon_ became a hit in the United States when recorded by the Nelson Riddle orchestra in 1956. It was brought to Riddle's attention by Nat King Cole's manager who had heard a version played by an orchestra in Mexico. The recording topped the Billboard magazine chart on February 25, 1956 and remained there for four weeks. -- wiki"
"Luie is a Southern California screenwriter, painter, and musician who has spent the past 30 years working in almost complete obscurity. He's also written and starred in a feature film and has shaken hands with Elvis Presley. Luie has been playing live at various restaurants, lounges, and country clubs for three decades and is still going strong. He has released a handful of 45s during the '70s and one full-length LP, +Touchy+ in 1974. -- discogs"
"This is the 12th studio album for Cohen, becoming his most popular in the US. Cohen's international concert tours of the late 2000s were prompted by the fact that his former manager made off with his life's savings. The manager, Kelley Lynch (Cohen's next door neighbor in Montreal and briefly his lover) was sentenced to 18 months in prison). When he concluded his tour in 2009, Cohen decided to keep working and began making his twelfth studio album. Sharon Robinson joins him on vocals. - wiki"
From Guelph, Ontario (same town as Jane Siberry), Petric is an innovative performer with a career defined by championing a wide reaching repertoire for the instrument. He is also celebrated for his technique. From wiki- Petric’s approach creates a unique sound that has subtle coloristic and expressive devices like vibrato, which is an innovation in accordion performance, This holistic approach is foundational for his delivery of diverse musical languages and accordion repertoire in the contemporary concert hall.
This is the band's 3rd studio release. The group formed in Nottingham in 1991. They released six albums before singer Stuart A. Staples embarked on a solo career. See link for his bio - wiki
Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (29 April 1936 – 25 September 1972) was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered +one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature+,and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on +the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death (by suicide at age 36) - wiki from an article in the Paris Review, 2018 "Pain, late night perambulations, and poverty—Pizarnik believed these were the roots of lasting art. She gambled her health and well-being against her poetry and the mysteries of language." See link for full article
In his youth, the Hungarian-born Solti studied piano with Béla Bartók. He had a particular care for the music of Wagner. He served as music director of the Chicago Symphony between 1969 and 1991 and remained the orchestra’s “Music Director Laureate” until his death in 1997. See link to watch his fantastic & precise conducting technique in rehearsal with the Vienna Phil. It's Wagner's Funeral Music to Siegfried. Notes the Wagnerian brass, expansive french horn section. Exactly one woman, playing harp.
The album compiles the soundtrack music scored by the band to six films by French filmmaker Claire Denis (b: 1946) See link to 2018 New Yorker article on Denis. This creative partnership began in 1996 when Denis approached the band about using the song +My Sister+ from the second Tindersticks album in the film she was scripting, Nénette et Boni. Singer Stuart A. Staples liked the idea, but suggested Tindersticks write something original for the film instead. - wiki
