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  Virginia Music Educators Association
His influence on the professional growth of music teachers, the inclusion of music in the school curriculum, and the organization of music clinics and festivals led to the organization of VMEA.
In 1935, the Music Section, VEA initiated a newsletter entitled "The Offbeat," which was immediately applauded by the newly appointed supervisor for its value in communicating with teachers throughout the state.
Further research has shown that the Virginia Music Educators Association was officially established by music educators with their election of officers and new name during 1944-1945 and became an affiliated state unit of MENC in January, 1946.
www.vmea.com /history.htm   (2976 words)

  
 West Hills Music Club
he objective of The West Hills Music Club is to create a broader appreciation of music, to encourage and develop musical talent, and to foster and promote musical activities in the community.
The West Hills Music Club was organized in 1924 and has been affiliated with the National and Ohio Federations of Music Clubs since 1925.
Musical programs are scheduled from October through June on the first Monday of the month, with the exception of January.
www.westhillsmusicclub.com   (118 words)

  
 Pomona College Department of Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Since 1995, Alfred Cramer has taught courses are in music theory (harmony, basic composition, music analysis, and aural skills) as well as courses on topics such as Emotion in Music, History of Reading, The Idea of American Music 1925-1950, and Music Perception and Cognition.
His research focuses on the ways in which melodic practices in 19th- and early 20th-century art music from Schubert to Schoenberg rest on the literate habits, cognitive assumptions, and theoretical mindset of the nineteenth century.
He received his B.A. in music from Yale University in 1987 and his Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.
www.music.pomona.edu /faculty/cramer.shtml   (298 words)

  
 Town of Winchester
He was interested in the musical life of Winchester and sponsored a number of local club concerts.
Phippen studied music with B. Lang and played piano and organ professionally for 64 years, from age 14 to 78, continuing to play unprofessionally until age 97.
Phippen also served as curator of music at the Essex Institute and at time of his death was honorary curator.
www.winchester.us /ArchivalCenter/Music.html   (1439 words)

  
 The Beautiful Music Company ~ 1991 compilation
Music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu
Music by Ernie Burnett with lyrics by George A. Norton and Maybelle E. Watson, 1912
Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Moon River
kokomo.ca /album_44_beautiful_music.htm   (827 words)

  
 Quotations: Music and the Arts 1
"Music may achieve the highest of all missions: she may be a bond between nations, races and states, who are strangers to one another in many ways; she may unite what is disunited, and bring peace to what is hostile."
"Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection."
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine.
www.janeellen.com /quotes/musicquotes1.html   (1698 words)

  
 Essentials of Music - Composers
In 1919 he founded a society for performance of new music, and in 1925 returned to Berlin to teach.
Schoenberg's early music was clearly marked by the style of the late nineteenth century, and influences of Brahms, Mahler and others can be seen in pieces such as his Verklärte Nacht.
The music of this period is also marked by a style that is referred to as expressionist, and Schoenberg had contact with, and a great deal of admiration for, the expressionist painters and writers (Schoenberg himself painted in an expressionist style).
www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/schoenberg.html   (676 words)

  
 American music collections
The Carter's were quite a musical family - - Benny's father played guitar, his mother played piano, and a cousin, Theodore ("Cuban") Bennett, played the trumpet professionally - - so it was no surprise that Benny also became a musician, beginning his musical training at the age of ten.
Donated to the Smithsonian Institution in December, 2000, the bulk of the collection is comprised of original music manuscripts (full scores and parts), band books, and published sheet music from Benny Carter's prolific career as a jazz composer and musician.
Original music scores and parts and published music either created or used by Benny Carter during his career as a jazz musician, composer, arranger and band leader.
americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d5757.htm   (1712 words)

  
 Essentials of Music - Composers
Both used the rich harmonies and new scales that are usually associated with musical impressionism, and both had an interest in the exotic.
While he showed some interest in musical Orientalism (his Sheherazade being a fine example), his real love was the music of Spain, and he created a number of works (Rapsodie espagnole and Boléro being the best known) that have a distinctly Spanish flavor.
In the 1910s and 1920s, Ravel was influenced by the presence in Paris of the Russian Igor Stravinsky and the activities of the Ballets Russes.
www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/ravel.html   (550 words)

  
 Maine Music Festival Note
So it is with joy that we ring up the curtain for another Musical Feast, realizing the uplift that music, good music can give, and that it is only by the educating influence of good music that we can hope to stem the tide of evil and demoralizing rhythms, that are today called music.
If we look to the morale of our young people, we must see that good music is given them, for only by this means can we hope to reach their musical souls, and help them to help themselves.
Through his extensive musical connections from his years in New York and elsewhere, he was able to bring some of the finest talent to his Maine Music Festival and often to Bethel for choral group picnics in the countryside.
www.bethelhistorical.org /Maine_Music_Festival_Note.html   (782 words)

  
 FIU Libraries -- Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1898-1925
This volume, published in 1994, and its selected chronology reflected a period from the beginning of acoustical commercial recordings, that is, without any kind of "electrical" intervention, to the last recordings done under this system in the fall of 1925, when electrical recordings began.
Since many performers were conversant with more than one genre, especially after 1925, it was no longer practical to continue separating the music by genre, and in the current work we will abandon this approach.
Equally, it covers Cuban music or music performed by Cuban musicians recorded in Cuba or elsewhere.
gislab.fiu.edu /smc/about.html   (738 words)

  
 NewMusicBox
She taught music history and composition at New York University from 1926 to 1951, becoming an associate professor in 1930.
An influential music critic, she was a regular contributor to Modern Music and The Musical Quarterly, associate editor of the International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, the editor of Etude and the New York editor for the Musical Leader.
Although few of her compositions are currently available on recordings and all of her writings are currently out of print, interest has grown in Bauer in recent years and historic recordings by the Vienna Orchestra of two of her works were re-issued by CRI in 1996.
www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=07fp12   (400 words)

  
 Wisconsin Conservatory of Music
The scholarship was established by her family and friends to celebrate the love, kindness and great spirit that she expressed through her music and in so many other ways.
This fund was established in 1999 by the Maihaugen Foundation to honor the career of Bonnie Dent Grass, a Wisconsin Conservatory of Music alumnus.
Famous for music instrument rentals, the Beihoff family has had a part in the music education of thousands of Milwaukee area children.
www.wcmusic.org /scholarships.htm   (499 words)

  
 Halvorson Music Library | Music Library Information
Music videos and all sound recordings are available at the circulation desk.
Henry Halvorson (Class of 1925) taught music, history, and literature in Minnesota schools before joining the publishing firm of Ginn and Company in Boston.
Halvorson, along with their keen interest in music and in St. Olaf College, made possible this music library building, to the great and lasting benefit of the St. Olaf community.
www.stolaf.edu /library/music/libinfo.html   (581 words)

  
 Istanbul 1925 - CD / cdRoots
This compilation presents some choice examples, digitally remastered from the original metal parts, allowing the quality of the music to be heard for the first time without the additional distortion and surface noise of early 78 discs.
Istanbul 1925 presents a collection of legendary performers from one of the most exciting periods in Middle Eastern music.
Belly dancing, folk music and classical styles were merged together creating a sound which became the rage of Istanbul - a city situated literally at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.
www.cdroots.com /tc-4266.html   (465 words)

  
 Cuban Music
A page dedicated to the history of the clave, with sections on both son, and rhumba clave and music sheets.
An explanation of the essential role of clave in Afro-Cuban music.
With strong roots in West African Yoruba religious music, Cuba's highly syncopated, potent, percussion-rich music has spawned much of what is today's salsa and Latin jazz and greatly influenced musics all over the world.
www.afrocubaweb.com /music.html   (848 words)

  
 1925   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
1925 is a common year starting on Thursday.
1922 1923 1924 - 1925 - 1926 1927 1928
December 1 - World War I aftermath: Locarno Treaties - The final Locarno Pact is in London establshing post-war territorial settlements in return normalizing relations with defeated Germany.
www.freeglossary.com /1925   (1444 words)

  
 Ballet Mecanique: The Pleyel music roll score
While conventional ARTCRAFT Music Rolls are edited and processed in "groups of eight" in the Maine Studio, only 2 Sets of BALLET MECANIQUE are handled at one time.
Henderson, so be so incensed whenever somebody revives this music under the cloak of "first time ever"...
Experimental music, which this was, has no single "end all" version for a definitive performance.
home.nnei.net /~artcraft/score.htm   (417 words)

  
 1925 in music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
February 25 - Art Gillham - The Whispering Pianist records the first electrical recordings to be released for Columbia using the Western Electric system (Master 140125-7 issued on Columbia 328-D).
Introduced by Marilyn Miller in the musical Sunny
Jean Gilbert from the musical theater production 'Katja The Dancer'
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1925_in_music   (819 words)

  
 Dave Tarras / Yiddish-American Music, 1925 - 1956
Freed of the snap, crackle, and pop of unedited 78s, what emerges is soul music with swing.
This is the music without which Emma Goldmann would have forsaken revolution.
This is my favorite of the compilations of older music, hands down.
www.klezmershack.com /bands/tarras/music/tarras.music.html   (229 words)

  
 Istanbul 1925, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic
In 1920s Turkey, the faint influence of the Ottoman Empire still lingered in the air, mixed with the shock of the new, the sounds of the Middle East, Europe and North Africa all meeting.
These classic tracks show a melange emerging, a souk of musical spices that's entrancing and full of Eastern promise.
Ouds and saxophones, voices and Gypsy bands fill the air in a glorious riot of music that fills the senses.
www.emusic.com /album/10596/10596266.html   (240 words)

  
 Music for children, teens, and adults since 1925 - Turtle Bay Music School
Music for children, teens, and adults since 1925
Turtle Bay Music School will be closed for Holiday Recess from Wednesday, December 20 through Tuesday, January 2nd.
Each student will work individually with the instructor on the vocal repertoire of his or her choosing, including classical, jazz, musical theatre, or pop.
www.tbms.org   (225 words)

  
 Djangos - Used Music & Movies! Thousands of used and new CDs, DVDs, VHS, collectibles and more!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Born in Eugene, OR, singer/songwriter Mat Kearney began his musical career at California State University, Chico, where he studied literature and played on the soccer team.
After completing his junior year, Kearney went to Nashville with friend and producer Robert Marvin, with the intention of only staying the summer to lay down a few songs.
His interesting blend of hip-hop and folk intrigued Inpop Records, which offered Kearney the deal he was looking for and released his debut album, Bullet, in 2004.
djangomusic.com   (231 words)

  
 Peermusic | Music Publishers since 1925
Bob is signed to EMI Music Canada and distributed by Artisan Music, a new specialty label owned by EMI.
Bob’s start came in 1986, busking on the street corners of Toronto just happy to have an audience for his wry and often sardonic folk songs.
Since that time Bob has crossed the country several times, has become a folk festival mainstay and has appeared on national television and radio programs including Much Music’s “The New Music” and the CBC’s “Ear To The Ground”.
www.peermusic.com /artistbio.cfm?artist_id=63   (230 words)

  
 Amazon.com: 1925-1927: Music: Red Heads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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www.amazon.com /1925-1927-Red-Heads/dp/B00007BKAP   (325 words)

  
 Erik Satie (1866-1925) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Author and music, Colleen C. Kahnert; graphic art, Charles Casey.
Teaches form and analysis of music by presenting an orchestra, piano, brass quintet, and rock group as they play arrangements of Erik Satie's Premiaere gymnopbedie.
Series: Da Capo Press music reprint series LC Call No.: ML410.S196 T43 1980 Dewey No.: 780/.92/4 B ISBN: 0306760398 : $18.50 Notes: Reprint of the ed.
www.mala.bc.ca /~MCNEIL/cit/citlcsatie.htm   (2493 words)

  
 Erik Satie (1866-1925) - famous Erik Satie (1866-1925) Classics hit collection and Erik Satie (1866-1925) Music Reviews.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A French composer as eccentric in his way of life as in his music, Satie exercised considerable influence over some of his more distinguished contemporaries, including Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc, particularly through his tendency to extreme simplicity.
A number of his compositions have become very familiar to many, largely through their use in other contexts.
MUSICAL JOURNEY (A) - PARIS: A Musical Tour of Paris, Chantilly, Versailles and Chartres (NTSC)
www.naxos.com /composerinfo/912.htm   (243 words)

  
 FIU Libraries -- Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960
FIU Libraries -- Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960
The contributions that musicians have made to our culture, is evaluated by and from the records they make.
For further information on the discography, please contact Fundacion Musicalia or Ms.
gislab.fiu.edu /smc/discography.htm   (139 words)

  
 MMD Archives Subject Index for: 1925
Music Rack for 1925 Marshall and Wendell, from Alan Whytock
Seek Music Rack for 1925 Marshall and Wendell, from Rob Buckingham
Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are those of the individual authors and may not represent those of the editors.
mmd.foxtail.com /Archives/KWIC/Numbers/1925.html   (318 words)

  
 Music Atlas of Cuba: History
Desi Arnaz popularizes conga dance music in the United States during a series of concerts in Miami
Israel "Cachao" López popularizes the big band mambo, creating a Cuban music craze in the United States
U.S. Supreme Court legalizes animal sacrifices as practiced in santería, creating a surge in Afro-Cuban religious practice -- and in santería music -- in New York City and Miami
www.pbs.org /buenavista/music/timeline_1900.html   (300 words)

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