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  New trends revamp classics
Among the major composers who incorporate Romantic elements in their work are Joan Tower and John Crigliano, each of whom has won the prestigious Grawmeyer Prize awarded by a foundation at the University of Louisville.
Ran is a professor at the University of Chicago and the composer in residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Cole also said that music is not generalized now as it was in the past.
www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1991/05/05-03-91tdc/05-03-91darts-06.asp   (602 words)

  
  Shawnee Press - Composer Profiles
Bob later received degrees in music education from the University of the Arts, and conducting at the College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State).
Bob was a member of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Josef Kripps, conductor, and is presently Principal Bass for the Delaware Valley Philharmonic and Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestras.
Bob conducts orchestra performances and reading sessions for regional festivals, and is a clinician at professional conferences across the United States.
www.shawneepress.com /composerprof.asp?id=6   (5411 words)

  
 Bob Cole (composer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert "Bob" Cole (July 11, 1861–August 2, 1911), American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director.
Their vaudeville act featured classical piano pieces and their musicals featured sophisticated lyrics without the usual stereotypes such "hot-mama's" and watermellons.
Success enabled Cole and Rosamond to tour America and Europe with their act.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Cole_(composer)   (195 words)

  
 Bob Cole (composer) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Robert "Bob" Cole (July 11, 1861–August 2, 1911) was an African American lyricist, composer and vaudeville performer.
He was one of the first fls to become part of "white" musical entertainment (in "flface").
This article on a composer is a stub.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Bob_Cole_%28composer%29   (106 words)

  
 bob chilcott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bob Chilcott, tenor, recalled his first encounter with The King's Singers while he was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge.
Being in the group has focused many things for him: his love of choral music and of performing, the opportunity to write and arrange, but perhaps most of all, the pleasure of being in an ensemble where individuality and teamwork go hand in hand.
Bob is married to Polly, a cellist, and they live in Oxfordshire with their four children, along with two dogs and other assorted wildlife.
www.kingssingers.com /bob_chilcott.htm   (880 words)

  
 Cécile Chaminade -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Her first experiments in composition took place in very early days, and in her eighth year she played some of her sacred music to (French composer best known for his operas (1838-1875)) Georges Bizet, the composer of (Click link for more info and facts about Carmen) Carmen, who was much impressed with her talents.
Her compositions were tremendous favorites with the American public, and such pieces as the Scarf dance or the Ballet No. 1 are to be found in the music libraries of all cultured lovers of (The sound of music produced by a piano) piano music.
She composed a concertstück for piano and orchestra, the (A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers) ballet music to (Small genus of North American herbs having usually red or purple flowers) Callirhoé and other orchestral works.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/C/C%E9cile_Chaminade.htm   (444 words)

  
 Bob DeVos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bob’s initial jazz experience was as a student of Harry Leahy and the legendary Dennis Sandole.
Bob is one of the few guitarists of this generation who has developed his own style.
Bob DeVos is active in the New York scene and his debut CD, Breaking the Ice, has nine tracks of first-rate straight-ahead guitar and organ based tunes.
www.trumpetsjazz.com /pages/calendar/bob_devos.htm   (1323 words)

  
 Harlem Renaissance - MSN Encarta
In the performing arts, fl musical theater featured such accomplished artists as songwriter Bob Cole and composer J. Rosamond Johnson, brother of writer James Weldon Johnson.
Jazz and blues music moved with fl populations from the South and Midwest into the bars and cabarets of Harlem.
Jazz ranged from the marriage of blues and ragtime by pianist Jelly Roll Morton to the instrumentation of bandleader Louis Armstrong and the orchestration of composer Duke Ellington.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761566483   (1734 words)

  
 Bob Ralston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Musically, Bob "wears many hats." In addition to his ATOS concerts, (which are the mainstay of his career), Bob continues to work as a pianist, show producer, arranger/conductor, composer, teacher, and recording artist.
Bob is the former conductor of the Hayward Symphony Orchestra and has guest conducted several other symphonies.
Bob's sacred cantata, "The Rising of the Sun," was premiered at Founder's Church in 1989.
www.home.earthlink.net /~gdaniels6lki/plummer/ralstonb.html   (1180 words)

  
 Artistopia Music - Cole Porter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Cole was one of the first people who experienced a new treatment for depression, electric shock therapy, which at that time was particularly barbaric.
Cole and Linda did separate in the early 1930s when Porter's sexuality became more and more open during their time living in Hollywood.
Cole Porter died of kidney failure at the age of 73 in Santa Monica, California and is interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in his native Peru, Indiana.
www.artistopia.com /cole-porter   (1246 words)

  
 1890-1900: Farces and Early Black Musicals
Bob Cole (seated) and J.R. Johnson, two of the earliest African American songwriters to succeed on Broadway.
Black composer/lyricist Bob Cole wrote one-act musicals for the troupe, including "At Jolly Coon-ey Island." When Cole found it impossible to work with the company's white managers, he established his own all fl production company.
Cole composed and produced the first full-length New York musical comedy written, directed and performed exclusively by fls, A Trip to Coontown (1898).
www.musicals101.com /1890-1900.htm   (913 words)

  
 Composers Official Site of Negro Spirituals, antique Gospel Music
He wrote several songs and he was the first composer to copyright church songs.
Together with his brother and Bob Cole, he sang secular songs.
He was called the “Dean of African-American Choral composers, for he arranged many Negro spirituals for choirs.
www.negrospirituals.com /composers.htm   (982 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Bob Cole (composer)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining.
1933 photograph of J. Rosamond Johnson by Carl Van Vechten John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954), most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was a composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance.
Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bob-Cole-(composer)   (364 words)

  
 USIA - Portrait of the USA, Ch. 11
Black composers such as Scott Joplin (1868-1917) and Eubie Blake (1883-1983) drew on their own heritage to compose songs, ragtime pieces for piano, and, in Joplin's case, an opera.
Blessed with composers and performers of genius -- Jelly Roll Morton (1885-1941) and Duke Ellington (1899-1974), Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman (1909-1986) and Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), Billie Holiday (1915-1959), and Ella Fitzgerald (1918-1996) -- jazz was the reigning popular American music from the 1920s through the 1940s.
Bob Dylan (1941-) extended the reach of folk music by writing striking new songs that addressed contemporary social problems, especially the denial of civil rights to fl Americans.
usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/factover/ch11.htm   (3548 words)

  
 Bob DeVos
Bob DeVos was born Robert Wayne DeVos in Paterson, New Jersey.
Bob picked up the guitar at age twelve, within weeks was memorizing guitar solos off of these records, and was performing professionally at thirteen.
Bob’s initial jazz experience began while he was a student of Harry Leahy and the legendary Dennis Sandole.
www.trumpetsjazz.com /artists/BDeVos.htm   (1308 words)

  
 Black Broadway! Vance's Fantastic Classic PLAYBILL for the MAIN STAGE
Cole believed that fls should strive for excellence in artistic creation and must compete on an equal basis with whites.
His musicals therefore had to rival those of white composers and lyricists, and thus demonstrate that the Negro was capable of matching whites in all realms of cultural production.
It was only a year ago that the entire cast of a farce at Madison Square struck because a single gentleman of color was engaged to play the part of a Negro porter, and held out until the gentleman was entirely cast out.
www.theatredance.com /mainstage.html   (908 words)

  
 African American Art Song Alliance ||
Founded in 1997, this is the home of interchange between performers and scholars interested in art song by African-American composers.
John Rosamond Johnson (1873—1954), most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was a composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance.
Johnson, from the United States, is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem".
www.darryltaylor.com /alliance/displayArtist.php?artistId=96&from=composers   (374 words)

  
 Trombonist Bob McChesney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Trombonist Bob McChesney was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1956, and began studying the trombone at the age of nine.
BOB McCHESNEY: I was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1956 and raised in a suburb there called Lutherville.
His supporting role in that band must have appealed to me. Also, everyone at the school was saying that you needed long arms to play the trombone, and I was tall with long arms so that worked in favor of the trombone as well.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=795   (2517 words)

  
 African American Registry: Composer extraordinaire, John R. Johnson.
He was taught to play piano by his mother at the age of four, also studying music at the New England Conservatory.
Johnson and Cole produced several musical comedies including The Shoo-Fly Regiment 1906 and The Red Moon 1908, which were performed by all-fl cast.
A year later after Cole’s death, he performed in the London revue Come Over Here and became the musical director of the Hammerstein Opera House.
www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1068/Composer_extraordinaire_John_R_Johnson   (282 words)

  
 Bob Cryer Supersite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bob is invited back to Sun Hill to help the police with this clandestine mob..
The Bill Synopses: - Sgt Bob Cryer takes over from Sgt Alec Peters and briefs his Sun Hill 'A' Relief PCs to be on the lookout for a firm of 'dippers', pickpockets and car break-in merchants operating on their ground.
Like his fellow Committee member, Labour MP Bob Cryer, throughout his time as an MP he was a vociferous opponent of professional parliamentary lobbyists and a manic pursuer.
www.ownerscloset.com /listings/bob-cryer.htm   (454 words)

  
 Cole Porter News
Cole Porter, arguably America's premiere 20th-century songwriter, was born this day in 1891.
Those with an appetite for the music of Cole Porter, Count Basie and Benny Goodman are in for a treat this week as the San Francisco band Swing Fever brings its sound to town.
The movie of Cole Porter's musical built around The Taming of the Shrew is made by the late Ann Miller as Bianca and her dances with Tommy Rall, Bobby Van and Bob Fosse (whose...
www.topix.net /who/cole-porter   (1065 words)

  
 Bob Cole (composer) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 About The Collection
Ragtime originally derived from the cakewalk, a strutting dance of Afro-American plantation workers that became a popular theatrical and ballroom dance.
The most famous composer of rags was Scott Joplin who's "Maple Leaf Rag" (1899) in particular was phenomenally successful.
The ragtime song reached its peak in the dialect songs of the great fl songwriting teams of Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson ("Under the Bamboo Tree" 1902), and Will Marion Cook.
digital.nypl.org /lpa/nypl/about/about_music_ragtime.cfm   (171 words)

  
 Bob Cole (composer) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bob Cole (composer) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Robert "Bob" Cole (July 11, 1861–August 2, 1911) was an (Click link for more info and facts about African American) African American (A person who writes the words for songs) lyricist, (Someone who composes music as a profession) composer and (A variety show with songs and comic acts etc.) vaudeville performer.
He was one of the first fls to become part of "white" musical entertainment (in " (The makeup (usually burnt cork) used by a performer in order to imitate a Negro) flface").
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Bo/Bob_Cole_(composer).htm   (131 words)

  
 Bob Dylan - Revisited
Artie is perhaps best known in the industry as the guy who signed Bob Dylan to his first publishing contract and then, of course, proceeded to convince an unprecedented number of artists to cover - and have hits with - his songs.
After a thorough review of Bob Dylan's catalogue and our target list of potential guest artists, we agreed that our project would most likely need to be a double CD set with about 20 songs.
Granted, the Scorsese film would be about Bob Dylan whereas our film would be about the processes and personalities involved in the making of a CD tribute to Bob Dylan but the Dylan connection was probably still strong enough to create some marketing synergies.
www.netunes.com /bob-dylan-revisited.htm   (14207 words)

  
 Jazz composer bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Although better known to audiences world-wide as a vocalist, master of the romantic ballad with an impeccable sense of pitch and swinging time feel, he was in fact, one of the finest jazz piano players of the '40's.
The Nat King Cole Trio was formed in 1940, with Oscar Moore on guitar and Wesley Prince on Bass.
As a composer he contributed numerous pieces that are still standards in the jazz repertoire.
musicnet.chandra.ac.th /eng/j_bio.htm   (16866 words)

  
 The Big Band Arrangers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He was actively working as conductor, arranger and composer for several radio shows, and appearing in various venues.
In those days, his idol was Stan Kenton, and on his own initiative, he composed a number of charts for the Kenton band and sent them to the band leader.
(Composer Arthur Freed had the other musical group.) Among the films to which he contributed arrangements are "The Strip," "Jack The Ripper," "Where The Boys Are," and "Kiss Me Kate." He composed the scores for a number of television shows including The Fugitive, Richard Diamond, Fantasy Island, I Love Lucy, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
www.nfo.net /usa/arranger.html   (11501 words)

  
 MAJOR BOB Play List
Usually you will find a midi file of the arrangment, possibly the scores for various instruments in jpeg format, and the Noteworthy Composer file (.nwc) of the song.
Noteworthy Composer is a cool software program that allows you to write music.
At first glance it might be a bit cryptic, but it is a working chart for the band.
larsen-family.us /MajorBOB/playlist.html   (211 words)

  
 Great Gatsby Web Site - 1999
Working together with his brother J. Rosamond Johnson, James Weldon Johnson composed songs and shows for both the concert and Broadway stage.
With musician and composer Bob Cole, the Cole and Johnson Brothers were among the pioneers of modern American musical theater.
Also in the field of music, James Weldon Johnson was the founding member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the largest organization of songwriters in the world.
www.fcps.k12.va.us /westspringfieldhs/academic/english/1project/99gg/99gg6/hrlitjj.htm   (551 words)

  
 Trakwerx Composer Biographies
He was composing on some of the biggest ad and TV projects in the state, all while continuing in the name of “rock stardom” of course.
London based composing duo o2 fuse their eclectic mix of contemporary styles to create a unique sound developed from scoring music and sound to picture.
As a commercial composer, arranger and songwriter, Brian has kept busy with music libraries, trailers, DVDs and theme and underscore music for the interactive sci-fi magazine entitled "Visionary."As a film composer and songwriter Brian has written cues for HBO and Showtime.
www.trakwerx.com /composers.htm   (4406 words)

  
 Voices from the Field
After graduating from Monterey Institute, Jeff Mattison, Bob Cole, and Akihiko Sasaki have found CALL to be a valuable asset to their language teaching.
As Bob Cole points out in his interview, technology should not be the primary focus of the course; rather it should compliment and support sound pedagogy such as that outlined in the Conditions for Optimal Language Learning.
As we have learned in our Intro to CALL class, CALL doesn’t need to be fancy, nor does it need to be complicated; what it should be is yet another useful tool that teachers can use to create interactive, meaningful, and engaging learning environments.
faculty.miis.edu /~bcole/CALLme/page2/page6/page6.html   (1776 words)

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