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  Who is Hector Rasgado-Flores? - Elementary School
Hector became ill with very bad asthma (an illness that makes it hard to breathe) when he was a very young boy.
Hector was able to deal with the limits to his life by learning how to play the piano and write music and by learning how the human body works.
Hector knew that he had to become a physiologist in order to learn how people listen to music, play music with their muscles, and breathe deeply with happiness.
www.the-aps.org /careers/careers1/Elementary/Biosketches/erasgado.htm   (587 words)

  
 Hector (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To the public he's better known as Hector, which name he has used since 1965 and the release of his debut single "Palkkasoturi", a Finnish translation of Buffy Sainte-Marie's "The Universal Soldier".
Hector was at the height of his popularity in the first half of the 1970s, but his steady string of recordings provided occasional hits well into the 1990s.
Hector's songs comprise several classics of Finnish popular music, such as "Lumi teki enkelin eteiseen", "Mandoliinimies" and "Olen hautausmaa", and he can be considered a primary contributor to the Finnish popular song of the 1970s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hector_(musician)   (163 words)

  
 Hector Berlioz - Masters Of Music
Hector was a most romantic, impressionable child, who peopled nature with fairies and elves, as he lay under great trees and dreamed fantastic day dreams.
When the boy Hector saw her for the first time, he was twelve, a shy, retiring little fellow.
The hostility of Hector's family to music as a profession, died down a bit, owing to the success of the mass, but started up with renewed vigor when the son and brother failed to pass the entrance examinations at the Conservatoire.
www.oldandsold.com /articles18/music-masters-13.shtml   (3892 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Hector Berlioz
In “A Ball,” the second movement, the musician is haunted by images of his beloved.
In the final movement, “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath,” the musician has visions of his beloved participating in a wild dance.
Forced to train orchestras to meet the demands of this music, he educated a generation of musicians and became the first virtuoso conductor.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578315/Hector_Berlioz.html   (1437 words)

  
 PCRM Gala: The Art of Compassion > Hector Elizondo
Hector is especially proud of his involvement in the prestigious LA Theatre Works, a group of 40 top actors who are devoting their time and talent to reinstating classic radio drama as a contemporary art form for National Public Radio (N.P.R.).
Hector is often asked to be a guest speaker and serve as a role model for children.
Hector is an accomplished musician and singer, performing on the conga and guitar.
www.pcrm.org /gala/speakers/elizondo.html   (514 words)

  
 Who is Hector Rasgado-Flores? - General Public
Hector accommodated to these limitations by learning to play the piano and write music and by developing a very keen interest in understanding how the human body works.
Hector realized that there was no alternative but to become a physiologist in order to understand how we listen to music, play music with our muscles, and breathe with deep satisfaction.
After all, being a physiologist and a musician are just two approaches to a common quest: To live life to the fullest and to try to give back a bit of pleasure and knowledge to our fellow men.
www.the-aps.org /careers/careers1/GenlPublic/Biosketches/glrasgado.htm   (643 words)

  
 Hector Lavoe
Hector Lavoe was born on September 30th, 1946 to Pachita and Luis Perez in the city of Ponce in Puerto Rico.
Hector comes from a musical family that he also said were a bit wacky.
Hector was shocked and greatly disappointed as the reality of garbage strewn streets and six story weather-beaten brick tenement buildings quickly wiped away the preconceived vision she had of fancy Cadillacs, tall marble skyscrapers and tree lined streets.
www.solosabor.com /hectorlavoe.html   (2485 words)

  
 Hector Jordan Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
They know Hector Jordan as a street cop, an agent, a man whose fulfillment was in righting the countless wrongs which were the daily bread of his chosen work.
Hector had an easy charm and a sense of humor which would render many of his antics and outrageous practical jokes legendary.
Hector lost his life to a gang of savage thugs on a rampage.
www.hislea.org /htm/hectorjordanbiography.htm   (947 words)

  
 Ambient Life Photography: Hector Qirko-Biography
Hector also has a longstanding professional relationship with local guitar legend Terry Hill & they are currently collaborating on the mysterious "UWP" project.
Hector Nako Qirko was born in New York City, but his formative years were spent in various exotic South American locales.
In his solicited opinion, Hector intimated that his band's ultimate, or at least apparent direction, is one of experimentation, and exploration of different musical avenues, while staying true to their base of Blues and R&B styles.
ambientlife.com /htm/qirko.htm   (874 words)

  
 Hector Berlioz @ Soundbug
"Hector Berlioz seems to me to form with Hugo and Delacroix, the Trinity of Romantic Art" Berlioz is said to have been innately romantic; experiencing emotions deeply from early childhood.
Hector Berlioz is buried in the Cimetiere de Montmartre with his two wives, Harriet Smithson (died 1854) and Marie Recio (died 1862).
In 2003, the bicentennary of his birth, a proposal was made to remove his remains to the Panthéon but it was blocked by President Jacques Chirac in a political dispute over Berlioz's worthiness as a symbol of the glory of France in comparison as such figures as Andre Malraux, Jean Jaures and Alexandre Dumas.
www.soundbug.com /artist/492   (774 words)

  
 Héctor Campos Parsi, Puerto Rican Music in the XXth Century
Hector Miguel Ramón Campos Parsi was born on October 1, 1922.
Young Hector, four or five years old, learned the song by ear without any instruction, and surprised the family and guests with a performance.
Hector first began high school at the Colegio de Varones, a private boarding school for boys in Ponce.
www.josemontalvo.net /diss/ch2.htm   (3596 words)

  
 Morbid Outlook - Famous and Infamous Couple of the Romantic Era
He fell madly in love with her; the obsession was such that, were he to indulge in the same activities today he would likely be arrested for stalking, or at least served with a court restraining order.
Hector had given up on Harriet Smithson as a love not meant to be and was engaged to one Camille Moke, who had actually gained his affections on something like a bet with a friend.
Harriet died in 1854, the mistress in 1862, and Hector in 1869.
www.morbidoutlook.com /nonfiction/articles/2001_07_couples.html   (3876 words)

  
 Hector Bustos Naif Artist and Musician
Hector Bustos, internationally recognized for his work, has had 21 exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Canada.
Although Hector's work follows traditional guidelines for the genre of Naïf art, his work is highly individual and frequently contains spiritual and metaphysical messages woven subtly into charming images of jungle animals and simple village events.
Hector's art takes us into a world of childlike joy, communion with nature and the gentle rythmn of a country village.
www.medicinebird.net /adasti/hector.html   (124 words)

  
 Who is Hector Rasgado-Flores? - Graduate
Hector is the second child of seven brothers born in Mexico City into a family of composers and musicians.
Hector became ill with severe asthma when he was very young.
Soon Hector realized that there was no alternative but to become a physiologist in order to understand how we listen to music, play music with our muscles, and breathe with deep satisfaction.
www.the-aps.org /careers/careers1/GradProf/Biosketches/grasgado.htm   (1115 words)

  
 biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hector J. Rodriguez was born on April 12, 1978 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
Hector has been one of the few accepted and considered for scholarship by the faculty and committee of the Roosevelt University, which consist of most of the principal players of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
In May 1999, Hector was the winner of the honorable 1998 Presser Scholarship at the University of Southern Mississippi, which awarded for his academic excellence and for being the most outstanding senior of 1998.
orca.st.usm.edu /~crodrigu/biography.html   (856 words)

  
 Hector Berlioz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hector Berlioz was a famous musical composer of the romantic period.
Hector first saw her in a play which was a remake of Romeo and Juliet.
Hector Berlioz was born in December 11, 1803.
www.d118.s-cook.k12.il.us /South/palosbday/HectorB   (588 words)

  
 Hector Olivera
Hector entered the University of Buenos Aires when he was 12, where he studied with Hector Zeoli and Juan Francisco Giacobbe.
Hector has also performed as guest soloist with many orchestras throughout the world, including the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Fort Wayne Symphony, the Dover-New Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Amsterdam Baroque Ensemble, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Pasadena Symphony.
Hector was invited again to perform for the American Guild of Organists National Convention in 2002, where his transcription of Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" spontaneously brought the large audience of peers to their feet.
www.hectorolivera.com /biolong.html   (785 words)

  
 BERLIOZ - David Cairns - Penguin UK
He must assure the future of his son Hector, aged eleven, who would one day, perhaps even quite soon, succeed him, and whose education he had lately taken charge of; and there were three small daughters and their interests to safeguard.
But another letter of Hector's from the same period bears a revealing annotation in the doctor's hand: "Monument to folly and blind, unbridled passion." The letter, though very strongly expressed, argues Hector's case with clarity and cogency; Dr Berlioz, however, was beyond recognizing it.
They are loud with complaints about her eternal "gastritis", her husband's deafness and inaccessibility, Hector's mad ideas, the political situation, the silkworm crop, the washing and the general unsatifactoriness of the world.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140287264,00.html   (12142 words)

  
 classical music - andante - preview - hector berlioz
He stands as the leading musician of his age in a country, France, whose principal artistic endeavour was then literary, in an art, music, whose principal pioneers were then German.
The family had belonged to the region for many generations, and the countryside, especially the grandeur of the Isère plain against its distant background of the Alps, cast a lasting spell on the young composer.
His father was a man of liberal outlook and broad intellectual range, an inspiring mentor for his son, and though the dispute over Hector’s career and marriage damaged their relationship for some years, there was a profound bond between them.
www.andante.com /profiles/Berlioz/berliozgrove.cfm   (10043 words)

  
 Welcome Hector Berlioz museum Isere 38 Cultural Directory tourinfos
Installed(settled) in the native house of the composer, in the heart of Côte-Saint-André, the Hector-Berlioz museum evokes the life and the work of this big romantic musician, whose life was dedicated, according to its own terms, in " more requiring(demanding) Arts ".
Classified ancient memorial, Hector Berlioz's native house presents to the street a rather austere facade, which protects a vast house of the XVII-th century full of charm.
Furniture of time, original partitions, correpondance and musical instruments having belonged to Hector Berlioz, tables(pictures), carvings decorate the details(rooms) of the house, which kept(preserved) for the greater part their decoration of origin.
www.tourinfos.com /gb/r0022/d0038/m0001/j0007/p001823.htm   (208 words)

  
 Sommaruga
Hector Sommaruga, inventor of the acrylic Grafton Saxophone.
The saxophone was still the mainstay of the dance band so that, when Hector turned his inventive talents towards the making of saxophones in plastic, he sensed a ready sale by bringing a firstclass instrument at a modest cost within the reach of almost anyone.
Musicians are perhaps more prone than most to an innate conservatism and, on the whole, tend to shy away from things which appear to offend tradition.
www.xs4all.nl /~lexlub/chroma-tic/grafton/sommaruga.htm   (4349 words)

  
 Blues Latino, Costa Rica
She then decides in 1989, to study at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California in the voice department at the Vocal Institute of Technology.
She returns in 1991 and establishes along with Carlos Pardo and Carlos Sanders, (recognized musicians of Costa Rica,) the Academia de Música Moderna, an institution devoted to the teaching of singing techniques and musical instruments.
Musician of ample experience and recognized versatility thanks to his diverse musical background.
www.blueslatino.com /contenido_eng.htm   (557 words)

  
 CUARTOSCURO / Articulos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
To evoke Nacho Lopez is also to remember Hector Garcia´s life, both of which at 18 sealed their friendship through photography.
In Hector Garcia´s words, they were educated to make movies, but nobody made it, except for those who had relatives or friends in the field — maybe one or two were already predestined...
In that regard, Hector Garcia says that their conversations would start at noon in a cantina over a beer until late at night, when they were kicked out.
www.cuartoscuro.com.mx /44/eng1.html   (1429 words)

  
 Richland Community Concerts Schedule1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
She also acts as mentor to music majors drawn not only from the ranks of classical musicians but from jazz studies majors as well, treating a whole range of topics relating to the realities of the life of a professional musician, a subject often untouched by conservatories and music schools.
Hector has performed as guest soloist with orchestras throughout the world, including the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Fort Wayne Symphony, the Dover-New Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Amsterdam Baroque Ensemble, the Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by Jahja Ling and the Pasadena Symphony, conducted by Jorge Mester.
Hector Olivera is a passionate, gifted and unique musician whose very personal interpretations of both classical and popular music literature continue to leave his worldwide audiences in awe.
home.att.net /~rconcert/schedule1.htm   (6317 words)

  
 Osmar Maderna
He was the eighth son of Juan Maderna, a local musician who played the accordion and the harmonium.
Though interacting with some other young talented musicians who were already or would become part of that orchestra, such as the violinist Enrique Mario Francini and the bandoneon players Eduardo Rovira, Armando Pontier and Domingo Federico, all of whom would then succeed on their own, Maderna actually changed the history of the group.
That orchestra would leave us eighty recordings such as the instrumental versions of "Sans Souci" by Enrique Delfino or "Inspiración" by Peregrino Paulos, among others, in which it can be appreciated not only Maderna´s orchestral concept but also his great solos.
www.todotango.com /english/creadores/maderna.html   (767 words)

  
 Cantaloupe Music Productions, Inc. / Hector del Curto
Hector Del Curto is also available as guest soloist for symphony orchestra or chamber ensemble performances.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, bandoneón player Hector Del Curto has traveled the world both as soloist and chamber musician, sharing the stage with the world-renowned tango composers Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Pugliese, ballet dancer Julio Bocca, and the ensembles Orquesta Sinfónica de Buenos Aires and the Teatro Colón Ballet.
Hector Del Curto's recordings include performances with the Luis Borda Cuarteto on the album "Linea de Tango" (Jazz and Fusion Records), Osvaldo Pugliese and his orchestra and Astor Piazzolla and the New Tango Sextet on "Finally Together" (Lucho Records), and Pablo Ziegler on the albums "Asphalt" and "Quintet for the New Tango" (both BMG-USA).
www.cantaloupeproductions.com /HectordelCurto   (516 words)

  
 :: Metro Pulse Online ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Qirko became well known in the local musicians’ community during the period, both as an ace guitarist and as an all-around amiable fellow.
Among the other musicians of his acquaintance was guitarist Terry Hill, a quixotically gifted player whose influences were as broad and divergent as Qirko’s.
Instead, musicians constantly switch up their playing partners as the night progresses, with newcomers jumping in when their names are called or just when they feel the urge.
www.metropulse.com /articles/2005/15_29/cover_story.shtml   (5643 words)

  
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Charlie Palmieri and Louie Ramirez always had time for young upcoming musicians like me. When I was in a jam, trying to put my group together I could always count on Louie to help me locate players, even though he studied at Julliard, Louie would come and sit in to cover the chair if necessary.
Hector Juan Perez was the bridge between our past and future Latino culture.
Hector Juan Perez transformed himself into a persona called Hector LaVoe to accomplish a mission that slowly changed from a pleasure cruise to a battle of life and death.
www.williecolon.com /scribes.htm   (1240 words)

  
 O'Connor Piano, MIDI Keyboard and Organ Studio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hector Berlioz (1803 until 1869), along with Felix Mendelssohn was one of the first conductors of a large orchestra.
Louis Hector Berlioz's father, a property owner and a doctor, wanted him to study medicine, but it was clear that the boy was destined for music.
The son of an Italian musician father and a German pianist mother, he represented a remarkable synthesis of two differing attitudes to music, while winning an outstanding reputation as a piano virtuoso.
www.oconnormusic.org /composers-b.htm   (7962 words)

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