The Santa Barbara film festival Virtuosos 2018: The Class Photo.
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We need to be the virtuosos of the new instruments.
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That's not typically something you hear from people tagged as virtuosos.
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Virtuosos are among the best at what they do in their profession.
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Type 2 rich individuals were virtuosos in their career, industry or profession.
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Well, if they are right, the executives running corporate America are absolute virtuosos.
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Well, if they are right, the executives running corporate America are absolute virtuosos.
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Skill-based Virtuosos devote themselves to many years of Deliberate Practice and Analytical Practice.
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Virtuosos of European absurdism collide in the summer season from the Potomac Theater Project.
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Virtuosos can effectively accompany themselves, mimicking the sound of an entire band's worth of instruments.
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Populated by geniuses and virtuosos, the stories are zanily cerebral and proceed with fractal precision.
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The two are virtuosos in their respective forms, but also in the shared art of listening.
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There's a lot of virtuosos out there that can play everything, but nothing really comes of it.
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Audiences in many cities remain enthusiastic, virtuosos continue to multiply, and conservatories and concert halls keep mushrooming.
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" Jeff Brock says that Iyer looks less for virtuosos than for musicians whose playing is "intensely personal.
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"Ladies and gentlemen: on stage tonight is the musical virtuosos," Chappelle said with Glasper and Thundercat behind him.
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The woodwind players, budding virtuosos in their own right, could have used some taming, especially in the Beethoven.
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The daunting piano parts presented no difficulties for Vicky Chow and Saskia Lankhoorn, two virtuosos of contemporary music.
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It took the Virtuosos in my study about 20 years to reach an average net worth of $4 million.
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Now, all that is left of Music Row are the signs and awnings that beckoned to virtuosos and neophytes alike.
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But these bedroom virtuosos are always coming up with something new to delight their fans, so they'll keep Instagram fresh.
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How many virtuosos will we lose in the years ahead if device use among young people continues to grow apace?
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Liszt's 12 aptly titled études, works of visionary imagination, are so technically daunting that even many virtuosos take a pass.
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While cultural criticism isn't limited to essay form (just ask the 280-character virtuosos of Twitter) placement and payment still matter.
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Reviews of all three concerts praised his technique but faulted his lack of musical depth, a common failing of young virtuosos.
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With both Mr. Hamelin and Daniil Trifonov, hyper-virtuosos both, on the schedule, it's a tough week for the Stern Auditorium's Steinways.
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Mr. Smythe, a pianist, and Mr. Evans, a trumpeter, are jaw-dropping virtuosos interested in both jazz improvising and new-classical exploration.
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Meanwhile, Kimmy's supporting band of narcissists — virtuosos Jane Krakowski, Tituss Burgess and Carol Kane — continue to shine as they strive for self-improvement.
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If the Viotti duet was an example of music for domestic consumption, this one came out of the commercial stunt mill of touring virtuosos.
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A known man of mystery, Mr. Murray this week gave a performance of dramatic readings accompanied by classical virtuosos at Symphony Center in Chicago.
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Step inside the mind of one of America's great virtuosos, thanks to a vast archive of his personal writings, home recordings and artistic collages.
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Several of DeWitt's characters are virtuosos or geniuses, including Peter, a statistician by hobby who has written an unexpectedly popular kids' book about robots.
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The Hollywood establishment, excoriated for its longtime exclusion of women and minorities, recognized African-American production design and costume virtuosos for the first time.
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The musicians presented themselves as virtuosos, which made it easy for fans to feel like connoisseurs; this was avant-garde music that anyone could appreciate.
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"He has supported Virtuosos since conception and has been a true inspiration to the talented young people we have discovered," Peller said in the statement.
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This daily habit helped them maintain and improve their skills and their knowledge, making them virtuosos in whatever it is they did to make money.
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From Congress's own prognosticators to Wall Street's virtuosos, scarcely any independent analyses project anything like the rosy forecasts offered by the president's top economic advisers.
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Everyone there is waiting for the sandwiches, bread and pastries at the much-acclaimed Tartine Bakery, owned by the baking virtuosos Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson.
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The four virtuosos of Genghis Barbie, which calls itself "the leading post post-feminist feminist all-female horn experience," give that heritage an irreverent post-classical twist.
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Deadline acquisitions Jonathan Lucroy and Carlos Beltran are virtuosos; if Texas reaches the World Series, the trades that brought them in will be heavily cited as reasons why.
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Donald J. Trump may call himself a genius for his tax avoidance strategies, but in comparison, corporate America is being run by absolute virtuosos, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes.
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AT 15 SECONDS I don't think I've ever seen an audience disappointed by the rollicking finale of Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, a go-to encore for many virtuosos.
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Delivered by two clownish virtuosos from the troupe the Grand Falloons, this entertainment combines juggling, slapstick, magic, bubble sculpture and live music ranging from Brahms to Irving Berlin.
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Basically, it's not surprising that new-school virtuosos like the violinist Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and the trumpeter Igmar Thomas would be spending chunks of time reimagining Dilla's compositions.
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Overlooked is an editorial project from The Times Obituaries desk to tell those stories and recognize women who were visionaries, virtuosos and trailblazers in art, politics, business and more.
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Ms. Fairchild and Ms. Peck, both virtuosos, have thrived in this home territory — Ms. Fairchild distinguished by her comedic gift, Ms. Peck by her astonishing command of musical timing.
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And between Phil's harsh reality and Vinnie's idealized Metal Heaven was Darrell, Vinnie's brother and unhinged guitar virtuosos, who became a perfect amalgamation of those two aesthetics (Rex played bass).
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One of the leading ensembles in our era is this collective, made up of three virtuosos: the guitarist Romero Lubambo, the bassist Nilson Matta and the drummer Duduka Da Fonseca.
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" And, while Perahia "emerged from his ordeal exhausted, hardly able to walk offstage" (in spite of his flat-heeled shoes), Wang "in the manner of the greatest virtuosos of yore . . .
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We've been a fan of Roli's futuristic keyboard for a few years now, as we watched virtuosos like Hans Zimmer and Jordan Rudess push the Seaboard Grand to some pretty impressive extremes.
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He's sustained the tradition of Miles Davis as well as any of his peers, constantly integrating precious virtuosos into his backing band, ensuring a sustained vitality and ensuring the lineage lives on.
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He appears at Nublu 22000 in an intriguing, atypical quartet featuring three fellow virtuosos: the cellist Tomeka Reid, the violist Mat Maneri and the electronic musician and multidisciplinary artist Daniel Givens. nublu.
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And they were still growing as artists when their lives were cut short: Unlike instrumental virtuosos, who typically find fame in their teens and 20s, most composers don't blossom until middle age.
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But then, even in this boom time for early music in New York, where could you hope to find the four virtuosos on Baroque trumpet that Bach requires in that blessed cantata?
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As the world's oldest surviving piano, it is a singular object, yet one that the museum was able to restore and invite virtuosos to sound out some of the first known piano compositions.
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The Grammy Award-winning Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov — who is yet to turn 30 — performs works by Beethoven, Schumann and Prokofiev at Carnegie Hall, as part of the venue's Keyboard Virtuosos II series.
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"Ipsa Dixit," which was directed by Ashley Tata, is instrumental as well as vocal theatre, and the members of the trio—Erin Lesser, flute; Josh Modney, violin; and Ian Antonio, percussion—are multitasking virtuosos.
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"I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find anywhere more asses and virtuosos," he wrote in a letter that makes his views on the matter clear.
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Featuring a small team of virtuosos, including the soprano Alice Teyssier and the cellist Seth Parker Woods, the work draws together Latham's own research into the history of psychoanalysis with experimental improvisation and uncanny vocal writing.
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In 1986, one of the greatest a cappella virtuosos in American history was between a breakout solo album ("The Voice") and an impending commercial smash ("Simple Pleasures," featuring the No. 1 hit "Don't Worry Be Happy").
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Rivers of Sound brings together virtuosos from Middle Eastern, South Asian and Western jazz traditions, and its music has a liquid quality: It's full of momentum, but not in the way of a single moving thing.
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One of the early virtuosos of the electric bass, Mr. Clarke is often associated with Chick Corea and Return to Forever, the seminal jazz-rock band that was partly defined by his exacting and expansive bass playing.
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LONDON — The British cellist Jacqueline du Pré was in her teens when she was sent to the Swiss mountain resort of Zermatt for a master class with Pablo Casals, one of the 21973th century's great cello virtuosos.
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Piano competitions have of late largely failed to mint intriguing winners, but the Gilmore has favored complete artists — young but mature — like Rafal Blechacz, Kirill Gerstein, Ingrid Fliter, Piotr Anderszewski and Leif Ove Andsnes, more than flashy virtuosos.
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In Burton's doom narrative, society isn't saved by heroic figures like brave Captain Hiller or geniuses like David Levinson, but by society's rejects—familial outcasts, forgetful grandmothers, B-movie actors, Vegas lounge acts like Tom Jones, and teenage video game virtuosos.
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Cynics might point to the usefulness of employing a former professional 'keeper on the backroom staff, but kit men the world over will recognise the episode as demonstration of the sudden, chameleon-like demands that are placed on football's unappreciated virtuosos.
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The Spanish-born tenor has become a shareholder in UK-based company, Virtuosos Holding Ltd, which has the international rights of the show and its spin-offs, its founder and chief executive Mariann Peller said in New York on Friday.
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" Other times, the effect falls somewhere between cute and clever, as when he tries to account for why virtuosos are so often religious: "Perhaps they can't contain their own pride and gratitude, or they can't house the gigantic battery needed to power it.
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The peak event of this year's run will honor Pat Metheny, a jazz-fusion guitarist who has won 20 Grammys and, in a career that began in the 1970s, has worked with virtuosos like Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette and Joni Mitchell.
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He remained active even after he was found to have heart disease in 2012, working on a series of Bartok recordings and conducting virtuosos like the pianist Yuja Wang, who described him as "my idol" at a performance in Budapest in June and mourned him on Facebook.
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The band included Mr. Lopatin and another electronics-oriented musician, Aaron David Ross, along with two conservatory-trained virtuosos, the keyboardist Kelly Moran and the drummer Eli Keszler, who was playing a drum kit, assorted percussion instruments and digitally triggered samples mapped to areas of a drumhead via a sensor.
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It marked a new beginning for Albarn and Coxon as a songwriting partnership: the former's gift for writing razor-sharp pop hooks was finally realized, while the latter, no longer held to copying others, unleashed his flare for inventive guitar leads that would go on to make him one of music's great virtuosos.
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That's because Prince came of age in the 1970s as a musician on the heels of 60s self-contained virtuosos like Brian Wilson, Stevie Wonder, and Joni Mitchell, and the now-deceased icon developed his particular skills at a historical musical moment in the 1970s that privileged sophisticated musicianship, guitar rock wizardry, and recording studio experimentation.
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From the roster of international virtuosos who play Carnegie Hall each year to the thousands of bands (not to mention fans) who converge in Austin, Texas, every March for SXSW, from the overseas tours of experimental American theater companies to the careful shipping of blockbuster exhibition objects from museum to museum, the arts and culture ecology relies on airplanes in incalculably enormous numbers.
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It blurred the eras of Louis XIV (the central idea of the king as an exemplary ballet stylist, with designs based on his era), Louis XV (the music is by Jean-Philippe Rameau, written long after ballet had become an art of professional virtuosos) and the 20th century of George Balanchine (backward lunges on one heel into off-balance position).
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In Thursday's program at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater, the crack team of new-music virtuosos tackles two avant-garde classics that date back to the 1980s: John Adams's "Grand Pianola Music," an ostentatiously tongue-in-cheek riff on minimalism and 19th-century Romanticism; and George Lewis's ongoing project "Voyager," which facilitates ingeniously improvised dialogues between computer-controlled piano and live musicians.
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The rest of the mixtape truly runs the genre gamut, from piano virtuosos Regina Spektor and Ben Folds taking on ballad "Dear Theodosia" to Minnesotan spoken-word singer Dessa performing a searing Angelica Schuyler outtake to Kelly Clarkson reporting for heartbreak duty on "It's Quiet Uptown" (which you can also buy now on iTunes, or listen to for free on Spotify).
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Here's a snapshot of that data, as it relates to how the rich get so rich:22% were salesmen/saleswomen23% had some professional designation; some worked for big companies, others in a small business24% took a personal financial risk in search of wealth25% were "B" students33% were "C" students23% had a college degree2200% had a postgraduate degree25% worked more than 50 hours a weekIf you were to boil it down, the rich became rich by pursuing wealth in at least one of four ways — though I found there to be overlap between all four paths: 49% were Saver-Investors, or average people with modest incomes who consistently saved 20% or more of their income and prudently invested their savings over a period of 32 years18% were Big Company Senior Executives7% were Virtuosos, or top experts, in their field2003% were Dreamer-Entrepreneurs (Twenty-seven percent of these Dreamer-Entrepreneurs failed at least once in business)Path 1: Saver-InvestorThe Saver-Investor Path is one almost any person can take.
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Virtuosos discovered dozens of brilliant talents in every season. The main goal is to keep these young talents in the music industry, give them further opportunity of professional development and performing. So the Young Virtuosos Foundation created and supports a small chamber orchestra formed by some of the greatest talents discovered in Virtuosos. The Virtuosos Ensemble essentially expresses what the Virtuosos movement is about: the love of music and each other, the gesture of that improving the whole community by playing music together and, of course, the flourishing talent that makes the Virtuosos Ensemble concerts so stunning.
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Today, Japan is considered a second home for Hawaiian musicians and ukulele virtuosos.
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Theodor Kullak in his 1882 edition added the comment: "most virtuosos execute this scale in octaves".
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She trained a very large number of students, many of whom will become virtuosos, composers or teachers.
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The virtuosos could write their own methods, but for those that didn't, methods like Laurentiis' were already available.
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Oxford University Press, 2003. .Sharot, Stephen. A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: virtuosos, priests, and popular religion. Pg 78.
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Visiting virtuosos to Ireland also extemporised on Irish melodies and the results were often enthusiastically received by their audiences.
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It is one of the most difficult concerti in the bassoon's repertoire, and has been called a "delight for virtuosos"..
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He also taught Yuri Yankelevich.Roth, Henry (1997). Violin Virtuosos: from Paganini to the 21st century. Los Angeles: California Classics Books.
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I-frescoA Simple Art competition with MS Paint. PiczardPhotography and Editing competition. DigillustratorDTP event. Rythmator & Virtuosos Sound creation and Remixing event.
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Virtuosos Gerard McChrystal (saxophone) and Craig Ogden (guitar) play an arrangement of Farrell's three movement work, 'The Shannon Suite' on this release.
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Sharot, Stephen. A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: virtuosos, priests, and popular religion. Pp 77–78, 88. New York: NYU Press, 2001. .
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Although his popularity is obscured by the more famous composers and virtuosos, his influence on those composers' most prominent compositions is evident.
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As a bandleader, he bullyragged a shifting lineup of modern jazz virtuosos into performances which combined precision execution with emotionally-charged improvisation.
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The Sculpture gallery of composers and virtuosos consists of busts and monuments located in the interiors and surroundings of the Pomeranian Philharmonic building.
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In May 2018 it was announced that Placido Domingo has become a shareholder in Virtuosos Holding Ltd., which owns the international rights to the program. New shareholders in October 2018: Contessa Maria Bardossy de Weisz Hungarian-born Venezuelan philanthropist is taking the talent show to South America. Peter Draper, former marketing director of Umbro, Manchester United and Valencia CF joins Virtuosos Holding Ltd.
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"Ambush from Ten Sides" is considered a masterpiece in Chinese classical music. The difficulty of the piece ensures that it is normally played by virtuosos.
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In the American tradition, the technique was used by early mandolin virtuosos Samuel Siegel, Valentine Abt and Seth Weeks in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
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Frank Schneider counts him among the leading oboe virtuosos in the world.Frank Schneider: A small miracle. The Gruppe Neue Musik "Hanns Eisler" Leipzig. In MusikTexte 33/34 (1990), , here .
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He is considered to be one of the best lute virtuosos of his time and one of the first great masters of the 11-course baroque lute in Germany.
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"Four of the famous Jew's Harp virtuosos of the world,""Munnharpas Verden", DanMoi.com. today are Svein Westad,. Leo Tadagawa,. Trần Quang Hải, and the late John Wright (1948-2013)..Wright, Michael (2013).
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Yuri Yankelevich (Russian: Юрий Исаевич Янкелевич) (7 March 1909 – 22 September 1973) was an eminent Soviet violin pedagogue who taught many internationally known virtuosos during his long tenure at the Moscow Conservatory.
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His leading students are amongst some of the leading virtuosos of the younger generation of tabla players such as Gouri Shankar Karmakar, Subhojyoti Guha, Amit Chatterjee, Mihir Kundu, Friedemann Zintel and Federico Sanesi.
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A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: virtuosos, priests, and popular religion. Pp 46, 85. New York: NYU Press, 2001. . Confucian thought is notable as the framework upon which the syncretic Neo-Confucianism was built.
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Virtuosos frequently play the komuz in a variety of different positions; over the shoulder, between the knees and upside down. An illustration of a komuz is featured on the reverse of the one-som note.
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Wehrkamp notes that his personal music influences are Pink Floyd, Rush, Yes, Kansas, Van Halen, and Queen. He also draws inspiration from guitar virtuosos such as Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Van Halen, Chris Alia and Steve Vai.
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He was one of the greatest makers ever; many feel his instruments are better than Stradivari's. Del Gesù violins are renowned for their rich, powerful tone, and have been favoured by virtuosos from Paganini to Pinchas Zukerman.
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Topp und Möller, Detmold 1997, , ; See Einschätzung von Julius Fridrich: Berlin als Musikstadt. In Die Musik 28 (1936) 2, , here . The historian Gert Kerschbaumer counted the virtuosos Kulenkampff and Strub among the "beneficiaries" of their time.Gert Kerschbaumer: Mozart schweigt.
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The fiddle is a very common instrument, played by virtuosos like Jean Carignan, Jos Bouchard, and Joseph Allard. Other instruments include the German diatonic accordion, played by the likes of Philippe Bruneau and Alfred Montmarquette, spoons, bones, and jaw harps.
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The word division basically means variation and describes the ornamentation of the melody. In the 17th century, "divisions" became bravura pieces for violinists in England. The virtuosos simply took a common folk song and improvised about it according to their abilities.
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"Saxophone Virtuosos of Whisper and Howl". The New York Times. p. C19. This interest had expanded by June 1953, when Hope recorded in New York as part of a quintet led by trumpeter Clifford Brown and alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson.
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In 1986 Villazon joined with accordion player Raul Martinez to record two albums, Los Virtuosos and Vamo' Amanece, under the CBS record label (now Columbia Records). The award-winning song El amor es un cultivo recorded in this album became a major hit, along with Sed de alma and Matica de toronjil. In 1987 they recorded their third album named Los Virtuosos Volumen II, producing two major hits; Recuérdame written by singer and composer Gustavo Gutiérrez Cabello and Yo tenia un amigo written by composer Rafael Manjarrez. Personal differences arose between Villazon and Martinez and they decided to separate.
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Unlike their first album, the three virtuosos spent several months on the compositions and arrangements, from July 19 to September 10, 1999. The album reached No. 1 on Billboard's Classical Albums chart and won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album.
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Queen Consort Marie Sophie of Denmark, 1792 Johann Friedrich Struensee, 1770 Cornelius Høyer (1741 - 2 June 1804) was a Danish painter, mainly known for his work in miniatures. Within his special trade, he was among the virtuosos of his day and won an international reputation.
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For unknown reasons, Kalkbrenner left his position as Kapellmeister to Prince Henry of Prussia and went first to Naples and later on to Paris. He was the father of Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner, one of the great piano virtuosos of the first half of the 19th century.
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He already used the relatively long sequence shots and displacements that would come to be associated with camera virtuosos. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan called Bauer "The greatest director you've never heard of." Georges Sadoul called him "the first true artist in the history of cinema".Georges Sadoul.
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At a very tender age, he got the opportunity to perform and tour with the troupe of Ghashiram Kotwal (Marathi: घाशीराम कोतवाल) along with eminent personalities like Dr. Mohan Agashe nd Dr. Jabbar Patel. Rahul has been privileged to learn from virtuosos like Sai Paranjpye, Rajdutt, Srinivas Khale and Ketan Mehta.
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John Henry Kreitler, also credited as John Henry, is an Emmy-winning American composer of contemporary classical, film, television and theatre music. He is a songwriter, producer and publisher, and co-founder of contemporary chamber music ensemble Virtuosos de Cámara and founder and Creative Director of Clear Choice Entertainment, LLC.
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After Spooky Tooth's break-up, Wright returned to New Jersey and began compiling songs for his third solo album. Under the guidance of new manager Dee Anthony, he chose to sign with Warner Bros. Records, mainly because the company had no keyboard virtuosos among its other acts.Charlesworth, Chris (June 5, 1976).
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Johann Baptist Wendling (baptised 17 June 1723 – 27 November 1797) was a flute player and composer of the Mannheim School. He held the position of principal flute in the Mannheim and Munich court orchestras under directors Johann Stamitz and Christian Cannabich, and was acknowledged as one of the finest virtuosos of his time.
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CandyRat Guitar Night Tour features CandyRat Records' guitar virtuosos traveling the U.S. and the world. For 2017, Antoine Dufour and Ian Ethan Case toured. CandyRat is also a festival partner for the Wilson Center Guitar Competition & Festival, with Rob Poland and the CandyRat headliners as some of the judges for the fingerstyle competition.
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M.D. Calvocoressi in "Music in the Foreign Press," The Musical Times 80, July 1939, p. 511. A review of Litaize's Douze pièces in The Musical Times was generally negative, however, finding the music dry and calling Litaize a "virtuoso writing for virtuosos"."New Music," The Musical Times 80, Aug. 1939, p. 602-3.
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Marcel Moyse (pron. moh-EEZ; May 17, 1889 in St. Amour, France – November 1, 1984 in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States) was a French flautist. Moyse studied at the Paris Conservatory and was a student of Philippe Gaubert, Adolphe Hennebains, and Paul Taffanel; all of whom were flute virtuosos in their time.McCutchan, pg.
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Sophie Menter (29 July 1846 – 23 February 1918) was a German pianist and composer who became the favorite female student of Franz Liszt.Schonberg, 262. She was called l'incarnation de Liszt in Paris because of her robust, electrifying playing styleSchonberg, 262. and was considered one of the greatest piano virtuosos of her time.
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Some younger jazz virtuosos such as Wynton Marsalis and Nicholas Payton experiment with the avant garde while refusing to disregard the traditions of early jazz. Continuing development of the traditional New Orleans jazz style, Tom McDermott, Evan Christopher, New Orleans Nightcrawlers. Harry Connick Jr. was raised in New Orleans and attended Loyola University New Orleans.
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2 is a version of the dance scored for violin and piano. The piece is replete with harmonics, double stops, left hand pizzicatos, and is often performed by young virtuosos. In flamenco, zapateado also refers to a style of dancing which accents the percussive effect of the footwork (zapatear is a Spanish verb, and zapato means "shoe").
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There are local festivals of which Ortigueira's Festival del Mundo Celta is especially important. Drum and bagpipe couples range among the most beloved kinds of Galician music, that also includes popular bands like Milladoiro. Pandereteiras are traditional groups of women that play tambourines and sing. The bagpipe virtuosos Carlos Núñez and Susana Seivane are especially popular performers.
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Yablonsky is also a conductor of the Ukrainian-based 'Kyiv Virtuosos' orchestra.'I believe in Ukraine, that's why I am here' - Russian-born conductor and cellist Grammy nominated conductor, cellist and conductor Dmitry Yablonsky, Ukraine Today (25 April 2016) Dmitry Yablonsky is Online Master Teacher at iClassical Academy with whom he has recorded several online Masterclasses.
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Not only the performance of the team led by Szüts Apor is impressive, but also their creativity. A new musical brand is being born here: this unique chamber ensemble type had not previously exist in classical music, because here everyone is a soloist and also a team player. The proceeds of their concerts often benefit the Young Virtuosos Foundation.
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He was an important personality in the French school of violin virtuosos in the eighteenth century, a composer and, most memorably, author of a highly influential violin method, "the first substantial French violin method,"Neumann, Frederick (1983). Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-baroque Music, p.xv. Princeton. . of that time: Principes du Violon (1761). He studied with Jean-Marie Leclair.
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The place of Taoic religions among major religious groups is comparable to the Abrahamic religions found in Europe and the Western World as well as across the Middle East and the Muslim World and Dharmic religions across South Asia.Sharot, Stephen. A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: virtuosos, priests, and popular religion. Pp 71–72, 75–76.
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There is not, however, a true dichotomy between adaptive and classic expertise. Expertise can be thought of as a continuum of adaptive ability. On one end, practitioners can be classified as "routinely skilled" versus "innovatively competent"; as "artisans" versus "virtuosos";Miller, R.B. (1978) "The Information System Designer" In Singleton, W.T. (Ed.) The Analysis of Practical Skills. Baltimore, MD: University Park Press.
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The Piano Festival was founded in 1998 and took place every November over a nine-day period. It showcased keyboard virtuosos and emerging stars in a mixture of recitals, orchestral concerts, and chamber music. The ancillary "Piano Off-Stage!" program presented a series of jazz events in a range of Lucerne's bars and restaurants. The Piano Festival was ended after the 2019 edition.
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Eiko Maria Yoshimura at the 19th IOF Prague International Organ Festival is a festival for organ lovers, held annually in Prague, presenting a series of concerts by well-known organ virtuosos from all over the world. The inaugural edition was in 1996. The venue where the concerts are held is the stunning baroque St. James Basilica right beside Prague's Old Town square.
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One of the most eminent virtuosos of his time and an important influence on Niccolò Paganini, he was known for his extraordinary technique, especially in trilling, bowing and passage-work. Among his compositions, the Concerto in A major op.8 and airs variés for violin and orchestra are noteworthy.Encyklopedya Powszechna Kieszonkowa, zeszyt X, Nakład druk i własność Noskowskiego, Warszawa 1888Answers.
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The guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega (November 29, 1852 – December 15, 1909) was one of the great guitar virtuosos and teachers and is considered the father of modern classical guitar playing. As professor of guitar at the conservatories of Madrid and Barcelona, he defined many elements of the modern classical technique and elevated the importance of the guitar in the classical music tradition.
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He left the group in 1998 but would participate in the recording of two more albums, Sacred Pathways (2002) and New Discovery (2003). He also recorded albums with guitar virtuosos Tony MacAlpine (Violent Machine, 1996), Jeff Kollman (Into The Unknown, 1996), and George Bellas (Turn of the Millenium, 1997), and contributed bass to two releases by progressive metal band Magnitude 9.
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Over the years and especially during the early 20th century, great maestros of mridangam also arose, inevitably defining "schools" of mridangam with distinct playing styles. Examples include the Puddukottai school and the Thanjavur school. The virtuosos Palani Subramaniam Pillai, Palghat Mani Iyer and C.S. Murugabhupathy contributed so much to the art that they are often referred to as the Mridangam Trinity.
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" Gallagher has commented on his musical ability: Comparing himself to other guitarists, Gallagher stated, "I can barely play like Peter Green, let alone fucking Jeff Beck." He also said, "I'm unfortunate enough that two of my best mates are Johnny Marr and Paul Weller. Those two are virtuosos to me although neither of them would admit it. On the electric guitar they're it.
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Other important contemporary musicians from the Highlands include Justin Vali and Sylvestre Randafison, both virtuosos; Rakoto Frah, who could play two simultaneously; Solo Miral, featuring guitar played in the style of a ; Tarika, a Malagasy fusion band based in England; Olombelona Ricky, a highly accomplished solo vocalist, and Samoëla, a roots artist whose blunt social and political critiques propelled his group to popularity.
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In 2010 Manuel lived a lifelong dream of playing and recording with guitar hero Frank Gambale, with the collaboration of the two virtuosos playing together on a composition written by Manuel entitled "When Two Become One". The song was recorded in Sydney Australia and Los Angeles. Manuel is also the author of an instructional guitar book called Guitar Insights focusing on the development of the aspiring guitarist.
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The latter two may be compared to that of a level for virtuosos. Despite their similar namings, the similarity when comparing Turkmen mukam and the Arabic classical tradition of maqam, together with Uzbek shashmakom and Azerbaijani mugam, is quite small. There are no intrinsic musical similarities. However, there are certain links, in terms of modality and technique, between the Turkmen and Kazak dutar and dombra repertoire.
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Lal established himself as a staff artist for All India Radio. He worked with the company until 1987. Among his works as a performer and recording artist in India, he played with sitar virtuosos Ravi Shankar and Debu Chaudhuri. In 1974, Shankar chose Lal to join his Music Festival from India revue, which was the largest Indian orchestra to perform in Europe up to that time.
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Prior to the Golden Age of Mandolins, France had a history with the mandolin, with mandolinists playing in Paris until the Napoleonic Wars. The players, teachers and composers included Giovanni Fouchetti, Eduardo Mezzacapo, Gabriele Leone, and Giovanni Battista Gervasio. From the mid 1750s until the Napoleanic War, virtuosos traveled Europe, performing, teaching and composing, many settling in France. Leone settled in Paris, Gervasio in Grenoble.
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Virtuosos is a Hungarian classical music-based reality competition television program for children and young adults, contested by players of classical instruments and classical singers drawn from nationwide auditions. The show is broadcast on Hungarian's MTVA network, airing a total of 5 seasons . Mariann Peller producer is responsible for developing the format of the show. The show's patron is the wife of the President of Hungary, Mrs.
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The first season of the show began in October 2014 and ended in December 2014. The second season aired from 15 April to 8 June 2016. The third season aired from 7 April to 2 June 2017. A fourth season debuted in April 2018 and the 5th one, a spin-off called "Chamber Virtuosos" was broadcast from 3 May 2019 to 7 June 2019.
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In 1746 the first public concert took place in Russia. This soon became a tradition. Concert life was dominated by foreign musicians before Russian virtuosos appeared in the 1780–1790s; these included the violinist Ivan Khandoshkin and singer Elizaveta Sandunova. The senator Grigory Teplov was also an amateur musician who printed in 1751 the collection of his songs entitled Idle Hours Away from Work.
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Budgie was hired, but Siouxsie and Severin had no success auditioning guitarists. Robert Smith of the Cure offered his services in case they could not find a guitarist (his group were already the support band on the tour), so the band held him to it after seeing too many "rock virtuosos". The tour resumed in September and after the last concert, Smith returned to the Cure.
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He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to music. In 2019, he published a workbook, The Violin in 5ths - Developing Intonation and Sound, in which he detailed a teaching method regarding intonation and sound that he has developed and perfected over decades of experience working with many virtuosos including Jascha Heifetz and David Oistrakh.
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113 & 114, (Concert Pieces) to great acclaim. Carl Baermann's compositions, 88 opus numbers, were popular with clarinet virtuosos. Baermann developed the Baermann-Ottensteiner key system for the clarinet, which was based on the Müller system. The system was very popular during the late 19th century, partly because of Baermann's Vollständige Clarinett-Schule (Complete School for the Clarinet), one of the leading methods for teaching the clarinet, written between 1864 and 1875.
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Dusík ( 1984), p. xxiii Dussek was one of the first piano virtuosos to travel widely throughout Europe. He performed at courts and concert venues from London to Saint Petersburg to Milan, and was celebrated for his technical prowess. During a nearly ten-year stay in London, he was instrumental in extending the size of the pianoforte, and was the recipient of one of John Broadwood's first 6-octave pianos, CC-c4.
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A day in the life of - Bryn & Sally Haworth Haworth has his own website and is featured in the current Crossrythms artists catalogue. A sample of Haworth's music, together with a list of forthcoming concert dates, may be found on his MySpace Music page. A 2003 review of The Gap album concluded: "He's largely unknown, but those who follow virtuosos know about this guy". John Ingham, for Sounds music paper, wrote: > . . .
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Doubble Troubble is the comedy-juggling team of identical twins Nick and Alex Karvounis. Since the age of 12, Nick and Alex have been performing their two- man comedy show worldwide. In international competition, they have won more than a dozen medals and set the world record for juggling 12 rings between two people in 1995. They are featured in the juggling historical reference book Virtuosos of Juggling.
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Laurentiis wrote his 1874 mandolin method, Metodo per Mandolino. for an instrument that was labeled "entirely out of fashion." Six years later, the Golden Age of the Mandolin sprang seemingly out of nowhere, with performances at world exhibitions, new Italian virtuosos touring across Europe (especially Paris and Prague) and settling in the United States. Young women were buying up mandolins; music teachers needed methods to use in teaching the instruments.
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Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (; ) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein who founded the Moscow Conservatory. As a pianist, Rubinstein ranks among the great 19th-century keyboard virtuosos. He became most famous for his series of historical recitals—seven enormous, consecutive concerts covering the history of piano music.
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He is also a music educator for Jamtrackcentral. In 2018 he was mentioned in the article "10 Contemporary Guitar Virtuosos You Need To Hear" by the British magazine Guitarist. He has performed in major international guitar festivals including Malibu Guitar Festival (USA, 2017), Guitare En Scene (France, 2016), Ziua Chitarelor (Romania, 2016), Jason Becker Not Dead Yet Festival (Holland, 2013), Eddie Lang Jazz Festival (Italy, 2010, 2013, 2015).
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Peter Philips (also Phillipps, Phillips, Pierre Philippe, Pietro Philippi, Petrus Philippus; c.1560–1628) was an eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest exiled to Flanders. He was one of the greatest keyboard virtuosos of his time, and transcribed or arranged several Italian motets and madrigals by such composers as Lassus, Palestrina, and Giulio Caccini for his instruments. Some of his keyboard works are found in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.
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200px Christian Ferdinand Abel (July or August 1682, Hanover, Germany - buried 3 April 1761 (or 1737?), Köthen, Germany) was one of the most famous German Baroque violinists, cellists and especially viol virtuosos. His father was the composer, violinist and organist Clamor Heinrich Abel. For some time Christian served in the Swedish army of Charles XII during the occupation of northern Germany. There he married the Swede Anna Christina Holm.
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The creators of the show support young musicians even after the end of the series. For this, the "Young Virtuosos Foundation" was set up to help these young artists with professional and financial support, scholarships and by organizing concerts at the most prestigious venues in the world, from the United States through Europe to Asia. Some of the young musicians discovered by Virtuosos perform every year on the New Year’s Eve concert at the Hungarian Academy of Music or at Müpa (Palace of Arts Budapest), which is occasionally broadcast on national TV. Other memorable performances include the Hungarian week in Shanghai, the grand opening event of Hungary's Visegrad Four Presidency, at the Strasbourg Human Right Convention at the Palace of Europe, the opening ceremony of Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix, for the delegates of the Budapest NATO summit, at the Kossuth Award gala, at the Olympics’ honouring ceremony near the Hungarian Parliament, and also at Asia Music Festival in Shenzhen for an audience of 40.000.
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Hooke himself actually attended a performance of the original production and, humiliated, identified himself as the specific target of Shadwell's satire.Chico, Tita. “Gimcrack’s Legacy: Sex, Wealth, and the Theater of Experimental Philosophy.” Comparative Drama 42.1 (Spring 2008): 29–49. While many critics interpret the play as a direct attack on the Royal Society, others argue that, far from satirising the Royal Society, Shadwell was actually focusing on specific follies that the Royal Society expressly rejected,Gilde, Joseph M. “Shadwell and the Royal Society: Satire in the Virtuoso.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 10.3 (Summer 1970): 469–490. or that, as members of the Royal Society at that time included both serious scientists and amateur virtuosos, Shadwell was striking a deathblow against the virtuosos specifically, but that the serious scientists were above attack and thus unharmed by Shadwell's satire.Houghton, Walter R. Jr. “The English Virtuoso in the Seventeenth Century: Part I.” Journal of the History of Ideas 3.1 (Jan.
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He accompanied the prince on his many travels, to France (Paris), Bohemia (Prague) and Austria (Vienna), where his two first comic operas were performed in Schönbrunn: Le Déguisement pastoral (1756) en Les Amours champêtres (1758). Van Maldere also played for the empress Maria Theresia in Vienna. His works were known to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn. Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf notes him as one of the most important virtuosos of his time.
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Ramón Orlando Valoy was born on July 29, 1960 in Manoguayabo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is the son of Cuco Valoy'.' Ramón Orlando started his music career at age 14, as a singer, piano player, arranger, composer and songwriter in his father's merengue band called La Tribu. He formed his own merengue music band in 1984 called "Los Virtuosos", later renamed “Cuco Valoy y Orquesta” with Peter Cruz y Henry García as lead singers.
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" Letter January 1971, Paris. Joonas Kokkonen, member of the Academy of Finland, professor, composer: "On account of what I have heard I can say that the Laiho Brothers represent a high professional standard as virtuosos of their instrument. Their technical skill is extremely reliable, their ensemble playing accurate and well balanced and their rhythm treatment clear-cut and vivacious. The performances give evidence of a natural sense of music which avoids all unnecessary exaggerations.
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Turetzky is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego. His former students include bass virtuosos Mark Dresser and Karl E. H. Seigfried; Dresser now holds Turetzky's former UCSD faculty position, while Seigfried is working with Turetzky on the latter's autobiography. He is married to flutist Nancy Turetzky, and they have two sons and a daughter, and live in Del Mar, California. He also plays the guitar, piano, and banjo.
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After the death of the Duke of Parma, Rolla was offered a position as leader and orchestra director of the La Scala Orchestra in Milan in 1802. Here the new governors, the French and later the Austrians, wanted to create the most important orchestra of Italy and therefore hired the best virtuosos of the time. Among his students during this period were Cesare Pugni, the prolific composer of ballet music, whom he taught the violin.
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Daniel Gioffre of AllMusic awarded Metal Fatigue 4.5 stars out of 5, calling it "One of the most important fusion records of the '80s" and "Holdsworth's best work. [...] Absolutely essential for those who like their rock with a healthy dose of jazz". The title track was listed as one of the highlights, as well as the contributions of drummer Chad Wackerman and bassist Jimmy Johnson, whom he described as "virtuosos in their own right".
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His first few guitars were nylon-stringed instruments for classical players. He soon found himself drawn to the construction of steel- string guitars, a descendant of the classical guitar, but used by a wide range of artists in folk and rock, and finger-picking virtuosos such as Alex De Grassi and Leo Kottke. The steel-string crowd — players and builders — was "more easy-going than the classical people. Not as uptight," Somogyi said.
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Otto Olsson was one of the most renowned organ virtuosos of his time. He studied organ with August Lagergren (1848−1908) and composition with Joseph Dente (1838−1905), both teachers having been employed at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Later Olsson himself joined the faculty there, becoming teacher of harmony (1908–24) and then organ (1924–45).(Astrand, Grove Music Online) Meanwhile he was also the organist at the Gustaf Vasa Church in Stockholm.
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For the next few years, Michael's musical influences were expanding. Virtuosos like Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins, Albert Lee and Danny Gatton were among the list of new favorites. As Michael continued to enhance his chops, he recorded a five-song demo [recorded at rainbow recording Studios Omaha ] of instrumental guitar tunes that showcased his guitar playing. The demo was sent to Shrapnel Records, resulting in a record contract and subsequent release of his first album.
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She was one of the first professional piano virtuosos in 19th-century Europe and one of the first pianists to perform memorized repertoire in public, a decade ahead of Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann. After years of touring, she returned to Warsaw for some time before relocating in early 1828, first to Moscow and then to St. Petersburg, where she served as the court pianist to the Empress of Russia Alexandra Feodorovna.
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Francisco Estévez (Paco) is a Spanish composer who gained recognition for his avant-garde and electronic work during the 1970s when he trained in classical composition techniques, and performed with Florian Schneider and Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk. He holds degrees and has received awards in Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands. He currently (as of 2016) lives in Collado Villalba near Madrid. Paco was the original organizer of the youth orchestra Orquestra de Jovenes Virtuosos.
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Carl Fischer Music is a major sheet music publisher, based in New York City's East Village since 1872. The company has since moved to the Wall Street area in 2013. After 140 years, the company remains a family-owned business, publishing both performance and educational music for students, teachers, and virtuosos. Carl Fischer's composers and editors give clinics and sessions all over the country, and the company claims to serve more than 1400 retailers around the world.
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Silver Dust was formed in 2013 by singer and guitarist Lord Campbell. After having led many personal musical projects covering the songs of guitar- virtuosos such as Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, he decided to create a project that combines music and theatrical show. For that, he engaged the services of his faithful bassist and longstanding friend, Kurghan, who has been present since the beginning. On May 25, 2013, Silver Dust released their first album, Lost In Time.
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His performance is clear and beautiful, and his tone equally full and incisive in the low and high registers. He is more proud of bringing out the beautiful and the pleasing than the difficult, rapid or rushed."Schubart, pp. 143–144. Another contemporary, the Bavarian lexicographer Felix Joseph Lipowsky, wrote: :"Wendling was one of the foremost flute players of his time, and was universally treasured and renowned as one of the greatest virtuosos of this instrument.
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The L5S was a unique high-end solid body, and once Gibson adorned it with super humbuckers, famous guitarists took notice, especially jazz and fusion virtuosos like Pat Martino and John McLaughlin. Additionally other players picked up the L5S such as Paul Simon and others including possibly Keith Richards at one time. Ronnie Wood has been seen playing a new incarnation of the Gibson L5S which is currently a signature model in production, the 'Ronnie Wood L-5S'.
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The association brings together luthiers, donors and young virtuosos: it supports both the creation of cellos from the great tradition of French lutherie and the young musicians too often deprived of good instruments. This initiative has been welcomed by the music press. L'article de Victor Tribot Laspière sur L'association Talents & Violoncelles, France Musique.] In 2010, he created the Biennale "VioloncellEnSeine", VioloncellEnSeine website of which he is the artistic director, organized by the "Association française du Violoncelle".
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Other teaching appointments, in parallel with those at Juilliard and Stony Brook, included the City University of New York and New York University.Martin Canin biography. Aloha International Piano Festival. Retrieved June 13, 2020. As the inheritor of a tradition representing the golden age of Romantic piano virtuosos, Canin extolled the image of the solo pianist, saying in a 1981 interview, “Of course I love chamber music—I love to play it; I love to hear it.
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Prominent musicians affiliated with St. John's include organist and choirmaster Clarence E. Watters (at St. John's 1929–1932 and 1952–1976) who was one of Marcel Dupré's "first and most enduring disciples-exponents- friends", and with whom Watters studied in Paris.Baglivi, Anthony. "Editor's Notes: Clarence Watters", American Organist, May, 1986, p.1 "One of [the 20th] century’s greatest organ virtuosos", Watters counted Charles-Marie Widor and other prominent organist/composers in his circle of friends and close associates.
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He was one of the best-known Italian piano virtuosos of his generation and together with Arturo Bonucci (cello) and Alberto Poltronieri (violin) he formed the Trio Italiano in 1930. This group played to great acclaim in Europe and America. His stature as a pianist and his work with the trio gave rise to some of his best-known compositions, including A Notte Alta, the Sonatina, Nove Pezzi, and the Six Studies, Op. 70, for piano.
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Sloman was a child prodigy, distinguishing herself on piano from an early age under the tutelage of Louise Dulcken, Queen Victoria’s piano teacher. She made multiple appearances at the British royal court and played informally with the violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini and the gifted pianist Sigismond Thalberg. In 1839, she moved to the United States as one of the only female piano virtuosos in the country. Sloman gave piano lessons to a few students before she made her American concert debut.
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They had a great influence on each other musically and linguistically (the extensive klezmer argot in Yiddish includes some Romani borrowings). Josef Gusikov Klezmorim were respected for their musical abilities and diverse repertoire, but they were by no means restricted to playing klezmer. They sometimes played for Christian churches and local aristocracy, and taught some Italian classical violin virtuosos. Like other professional musicians, klezmorim were often limited by authorities. In Ukraine they were banned from playing loud instruments, until the 19th century.
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Cuco Valoy (born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 5 January 1937) is a singer, songwriter , percussionist, Guitarist, who is versatile in salsa, son montuno, Guaracha and merengue musician. He began performing Cuban son with his brother Martín, under the name Los Ahijados. Cuco is the father of Ramón Orlando with whom he formed the band Los Virtuosos, changed to La Tribu. He is widely known for the song Juliana, which was covered by the group DLG; a cover that featured Valoy's vocals.
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Gordon gave her New York recital debut on May 27, 1990 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the museum’s Introductions series. Bernard Holland, reviewing for The New York Times, wrote, "… Ms. Gordon does not have the dominating technique associated with major virtuosos, but she has character and she thinks." In 1996, Gordon was named the Boston Globe Musician of the Year. The Celebrity Series of Boston has presented Gordon frequently and she has performed regularly with Emmanuel Music.
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Ms. Lippincott joined the Lilian Murtagh Concert Management roster in 1967. Karen McFarlane Holtkamp took over the management following Lilian’s death in 1976 and was President from 1976–2000; John McElliott succeeded her. Ms. Lippincott has performed over 600 concerts in over 40 years as one of the Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc. organists. Ms. Lippincott has been acclaimed as one of America’s outstanding organ virtuosos and she performs extensively in the United States and has toured throughout Europe and Canada.
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They have appeared in several editions and been used up to the present time in piano teaching. The renowned writer of Technical ' exercises. The strong endorsement which the Pischna exercises have received from virtuosos and the wide use which has come to Der Kleine Pischna,: 'The Little Pischna,” (a set of remarkably fine easy technical exercises written by Wolff, a pupil of Pischna) have led to innumerable inquiries regarding the identity of Pischna. Josef Pischna was born at Iang Lhot Bohemia in 1826.
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In Spain today, the bandurria is a "national instrument." However, the mandolin can be learned there as well, especially by those pursuing a career as a classical musician. Although professional Spanish mandolinists may be rare, but they do exist: Hector Marin developed his skill with the mandolin sufficiently to complete in the Yasuo Kuwahara International Mandolin Competition in Germany in 2015. The competition that year had 11 other "virtuosos of the mandolin" competing, six from Germany and five from Russia.
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And, oilcaner was > crouching and twisting when he began to follow movement of the connecting > rod, and at the right time he injected the right portion of the oil using > big oilcan with a large down-curved nose (outlet pipe). One wrong move, - > the oilcan could be striked by the connecting rod and the entire portion of > the lubricant will be on your head. So motormen and engineers were > unsurpassed dancers in this sense. They were virtuosos of the deal.
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Despite the effort it took Mendelssohn to write the concerto, it has been seen as a somewhat slight contribution to the repertoire. The composer Robert Schumann, writing in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, offered a frank assessment of the piece, observing: > This concerto, to be sure, will offer virtuosos little in which to show off > their monstrous dexterity. Mendelssohn gives them almost nothing to do that > they have not already done a hundred times before. We have often heard them > complain about it.
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In 2008, along with his brothers Gennaro and Gaetano, he established another group, which mixes baroque and tango music. In the same year, he performed at the "Virtuosos of Guitar" festival in Moscow. In 2009, he made a series of concerts and tours, and performed with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra in Canada and toured Europe. In 2010, Desiderio recited at the Concerto Madrigal of J. Rodrigo, with Angel Romero, and gave masterclasses during the Summer International Academy for the Mozarteum of Salzburg.
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One of his internationally best-known compositions is the Concerto for flute and orchestra, written in 1954. Jean-Pierre Rampal commissioned this concerto and performed it in multiple concerts, and recorded it. The Sonata for flute (1957) is a standard piece in the repertoire of all virtuosos. Rampal ordered the very elaborate and the virtuoso Fantasy Concertante for flute, string quartet and percussion instruments, which was first performed in Paris in 1980 (required work for his First International Flute Competition).
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This style influenced the works of France's bass viola da gamba virtuosos of the late Baroque period. The solo lyra viol music during the 17th century was identified as lessons. Generally, these works are either dance music, patriotic music (mainly loyalists), purely instrumental (preludium and symphony), or vocal music of a secular nature, often being transcriptions of popular songs of the day. Musicians were free to improvise upon a piece, often using ornaments, divisions, polyphonic textures, or adding their own music.
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Taylor currently gigs with the Robert Jospe Trio around Virginia and can be seen weekly performing on Thursday nights at Millers on the Downtown Mall of Charlottesville (The place where the Dave Matthews Band began) with other virtuosos such as John D'earth, , and Devonne Harris. He also plays with the trio the last Saturday of the month at Fellini's, also on the downtown mall. He recently finished production on Will Thomas Reed's debut album entitled To Whom It May Concern.
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The Pomeranian Philharmonic is a cultural institution which bodies are under the authority of leading Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Kuyavian- Pomeranian Voivodeship. Performances include symphonic concerts, chamber music, and recitals by virtuosos from all over the world. On stage Philharmonic concerts are accompanied by Polish or foreign groups, to play at the occasion of jubilees, commemorations and congresses organized by universities and private companies. The repertoire includes music of all periods, from medieval to contemporary works.
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An Indian subgenre of rock exists that focuses on blending traditional Indian styles of music with rock music. The term for non-Indian bands using Indian instrumentals and vocal in rock is raga rock. However, Indian fusion also encompasses attempts by Indian pop musicians and film composers to incorporate rock music into their work, starting in the 1970s with film scores like those of the Amitabh Bachchan classics. The Brown Indian Band features accomplished Indian classical musicians in concert with jazz virtuosos.
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Some notable istrumentalists include clarinet virtuosos like Petroloukas Chalkias, Giorgos Gevgelis and Yiannis Vassilopoulos, as well as laouto and fiddle players like Nikos Saragoudas, Vasilis Kostas and Giorgos Koros. Greek folk music is found all throughout Greece Cyprus and several regions of Turkey, as well as among communities in countries like the United States, Canada and Australia. The island of Cyprus and several regions of Turkey are home to long-standing communities of Greeks in Turkey with their own unique styles of music.
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In 1844 he started his extended tours which established his reputation as one of the greatest of virtuosos. From 1848 to 1867 he held the position of principal professor of violin playing at the Brussels Conservatoire, having succeeded the celebrated Charles de Bériot. Owing to ill health, he resigned and settled in Paris, where he spent the rest of his life, and where he gave lessons. Among his notable students were Alfred De Sève, Martin Pierre Marsick, Henri Marteau, Henry Schradieck, and César Thomson.
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The festival took place annually over 12 days in late May, and staged a range of events featuring orchestral and classical virtuosos, jazz, folk, roots and world musicians, with collaborations and commissioned works. The musicians included established and emerging artists, students from a wide range of conservatoires, universities and colleges, and local musicians, both professional and amateur. The programme was supported with films, talks, multi media events, music theatre, exhibitions, dance and site specific projects. In 2013, the Bath International Music Festival celebrated its 65th anniversary.
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Vejvanovsky must have been one of the greatest trumpet virtuosos of the age and his numerous compositions attest to his virtuosity. One of his more remarkable talents was the ability to play certain chromatic passages on the trumpet, which is not normally possible on the largely diatonic natural trumpet. Under Vejvanovsky's direction the Bishop's ensemble saw its heyday. Other musicians at court included Philipp Jakob Rittler, Heinrich Biber, and Gottfried Finger, the latter two employing certain characteristics of Vejvanovsky's trumpet writing in their own compositions.
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Hassan was the subject of a 2007 documentary film, Mariem Hassan, la voz del Sáhara.Mariem Hassan: the Voice of the Sahara Melbourne Filmoteca. In 2010, Link TV produced a short documentary on Hassan's music and activism, as part of the series "Rappers, Divas and Virtuosos: New Music from the Muslim World." In October 2014, Calamar Edicion y Diseño published Hassan's official biography in the form of a graphic novel, Mariem Hassan – Soy Saharaui, written and illustrated by Italian authors Gianluca Diana, Andromalis, and Federica Marzioni.
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He made triumphal tours in Spain, Germany, Italy, England, Switzerland, Belgium. His merits have made him the sought-after and appreciated collaborator of such masters as Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, Vincent D'Indy and Claude Debussy; virtuosos such as Sarasate, Ysaye, Kreisler, Cortot, Marguerite Long, Enesco, Casals, Capet, Thibaud, Diemer, Sauer; Quartetists such as Marsick, Parent, Touche, Sechiari. Maurice Vieux was decorated with the legion of honor in 1930. In 1931, His Majesty the King of the Belgians named him Knight of the order of Leopold.
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Since 2010, he has studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Eliso Virsaladze. In that same year, he played Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in front of the public and the state authorities on Red Square, with the ‘Virtuosos of Gnessin’ Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Khokhlov. Currently he is studying with Epifanio Comis at Bellini Conservatory and at Rachmaninov Academy. He has won many prizes, including in the 59th Ferruccio Busoni Competition (2013, Third Prize) and in competitions in Russia, China, Germany, Bulgaria, and Poland.
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Wanda Wilkomirska The Polish world renown virtuosos of classical music of all time include composers Karol Lipiński, Artur Rubinstein, Ignacy Paderewski, Mieczysław Horszowski, Grażyna Bacewicz, Wanda Wilkomirska and Krystian Zimerman. Jazz musician Krzysztof Komeda was known after WWII especially for his movie soundtracks, including movies directed by Roman Polański, but also for his 1966 album Astigmatic. Poland has one of the strongest and best- respected electronic dance music (EDM) scenes in Europe. One of the biggest record labels of EDM in Poland is Empire Records.
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He is considered to be one of the earliest violin virtuosos and he made many contributions to violin technique. For example, in his work Capriccio Stravagante (1627) he used the violin to imitate animal sounds like dogs barking or cats fighting. According to Cecil Forsyth's Orchestration, he "is generally credited" with "the invention of the double-stop"Cecil Forsyth, William Bolcom (1982). Orchestration, p.315. . (although nearly a century earlier Ganassi’s Regola rubertina (1542–3) describes the technique, suggesting it was common among contemporary viol players.
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Joseph Beer (18 May 1744, , Bohemia – 28 October 1812, Berlin) was one of the first internationally famous clarinet virtuosos, with connections to many major composers of the era. Beer served as trumpeter first in the Austrian and then in the French army during the Seven Years' War. In 1771 he went to Paris, and there took up the clarinet, on which he rapidly became the first major performer of his time. In 1782 he left Paris, and traveled through Holland, Italy, Russia, and Hungary.
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The Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70, by Anton Rubinstein is a Romantic concerto that was once highly esteemed and was in the repertoire of the Russian and Polish piano virtuosos Sergei Rachmaninoff and Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Anton Rubinstein, himself a renowned pianist, left five numbered piano concertos. (He wrote three earlier piano concertos; two were lost and the third was transformed into Octet, Op. 9.) Rubinstein composed the Fourth Concerto in 1864. He published two revisions of it and then a final revision in 1872.
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In her early career, before her marriage, she played the customary bravura pieces designed to showcase the artist's technique, often in the form of arrangements or variations on popular themes from operas, written by virtuosos such as Thalberg, Herz, or Henselt. As it was customary to play one's own compositions, she included at least one of her own works in every program, such as Variations on a Theme by Bellini (Op. 8) and the popular Scherzo (Op. 10). However, as she became a more independent artist, her repertoire contained mainly music by leading composers.
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V. Selvaganesh, who plays alongside McLaughlin in the group Remember Shakti, and Ranjit Barot, who plays with McLaughlin in the group 4th Dimension, are other noted konnakol virtuosos. Danish musician Henrik Andersen wrote the book Shortcut To Nirvana (2005) and the DVD Learn Konnakol (2014). Andersen was a student of Trilok Gurtu (India) and Pete Lockett (U.K.). Subash Chandran's disciple Dr Joel, who teaches konnakol in the U.K., is noted for incorporating it into rock and Western classical music, notably in a concerto commissioned in 2007 by the viola soloist Rivka Golani.
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Marie – nicknamed "Mimi" – was born in Rome as daughter of Baron Ludwig August von Buch, Prussian ambassador to the Holy See. Her father died in 1845, and her mother, Marie, married Prince Hermann Anton von Hatzfeldt zu Trachenberg (1808–1874) in 1847. By this marriage, the economic situation of mother and daughter, which until then had not been comfortable, was improved due to the wealth of Hatzfeldt. von Schleinitz was trained as a pianist from her early youth; taught by such virtuosos as Carl Tausig, she developed a remarkable musical talent.
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With these instructors, the Art Institute of Guangzhou turned to be the cradle of talented Lingnan style Chinese painters. Among talented students, Pang has been a name that was mentioned around instructors for his skills and talent. He spent his apprenticeship flourishing his painting skills with the virtuosos, and often he visited Master Gao Jianfu to learn about the precious tips of drawing iconic creatures in Chinese paintings, i.e. birds, fish, insects and flowers. Chao, who favoured and later became good friends with Pang, had often offered his calligraphy as a present for Pang’s exhibitions.
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Louis Marchand Louis Marchand (2 February 1669 – 17 February 1732) was a French Baroque organist, harpsichordist, and composer. Born into an organist's family, Marchand was a child prodigy and quickly established himself as one of the best known French virtuosos of his time. He worked as organist of numerous churches and, for a few years, as one of the four organistes du roy. Marchand had a violent temperament and an arrogant personality, and his life was filled with scandals, publicized and widely discussed both during his lifetime and after his death.
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Kreutzer was born in Versailles, and was initially taught by his German father, who was a musician in the royal chapel, with later lessons from Anton Stamitz. He became one of the foremost violin virtuosos of his day, appearing as a soloist until 1810. He was a violin professor at the Conservatoire de Paris from its foundation in 1795 until 1826. He was co-author of the Conservatoire's violin method with Pierre Rode and Pierre Baillot, and the three are considered the founding trinity of the French school of violin playing.
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He also regularly performs as guest soloist and conductor (Play & Conduct) with ensembles such as the Queen Sofia Royal Chamber Orchestra, the Virtuosos of Venezuela Symphony and the Vienna Symphony (Wiener Symphoniker). In addition to his soloist activities, Alexandre Da Costa regularly gives masterclasses at various universities and conservatories around the world. Institutions he visited include the Sydney Conservatorium, the University of Toronto and the Superior Conservatories of Montreal, Madrid and Shanghai. He also served as benchmarking consultant for the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and guest speaker for TEDx.
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From that meeting, Almeida began to mentor her and encourage her to sing Hawaiian songs. Her first recorded song for 49th State Records was Almeida's composition Maile Swing, which became an immediate hit for her. Almeida was also instrumental in launching the careers of falsetto virtuosos Joe Keawe and Bill Ali'iloa Lincoln, known as "Hawaii's Falsetto Poet", as well as Hawaii steel guitar legends Billy Hew Len and David Keli'i. On December 13, 1971, these protégés and other performers honored Almeida with a testimonial at the Coral Ballroom of the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel.
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Well, the Swedish public at least did not stay at home that night. The hall was packed an hour before the time when it was scheduled to start, and hundreds clamored for admittance in vain. A man, who can attract crowds like that in these days, must be a phenomenon. Of course he does not do all the performing himself; he is ably assisted by his lovely wife, Olga, and by some very clever dancers, and a bunch of virtuosos, who make up the Olle i Skratthult orchestra.
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She is frequently invited to perform at international music festivals and has recorded and collaborated with many international artists. During the 1990s, she recorded with Pól Brennan, Bill Laswell, James Blood Ulmer, Jerome Brailey, Henry Threadgill, Umar Bin Hassan, Amina Claudine Myers, Fernando Saunders and, Pheeroan akLaff. In 2003, she founded the Liu Sola & Friends Ensemble, teaming up with Chinese instrumental virtuosos such as Li Zhengui, Zhang Yangsheng, and Yang Jing, together with other young award-winning soloists. In 2012, Chinese guitar virtuoso Liu Yijun (lao wu) joined the ensemble.
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The theme song of the film Do zirok (To the Stars) was performed by Vremya i Steklo band. On February 14, a music video for the song was presented. The author of the Ukrainian lyrics is Oleksandra Ruban, the arrangement to the song was made by Milos Jelic, keyboard player in Okean Elzy band, and the instrumental part was performed by the musicians of Kyiv Virtuosos orchestra. The final song in the end credits to the feature film, Ty Lyubov Moya (You’re My Love), was performed by Jamala.
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194, web version Nevertheless, in the muddy environment of trench warfare the mechanically complex St-Étienne Mle 1907 suffered from frequent stoppages and was difficult to maintain by front-line soldiers. A quote from a French post- war military evaluation says it all: "admirable weapon, patented clockwork, but very delicate and sparing its whims only for machine-gun virtuosos."Revue d'Infanterie No 487, p. 486, April 1933 In July 1917 the Mle 1907 St-Étienne was gradually withdrawn from front line service and replaced by the distinctly simpler and more reliable Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun.
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With the arrival of Danes, new instruments and forms of European-derived music became popular like the fiddle, accordion and Christian hymns, while Moravian missionaries introduced violins, brass instruments and a tradition of purely instrumental music. The most influential Moravian importation, however, was the polyphonic choir, which has produced popular modern vocal groups like Mik. Kalattuut (dansemik) is a long-stanting form of Inuit polka, which produced popular songs and virtuosos like accordion player Louis Andreasen. There is also a modern style called vaigat, which is similar to country music.
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Gertrude's Church is almost a rotunda. In front of the altar, there are five balconies which balustrades are decorated with paintings funded by the shoemakers of Darłowo in the 17th and 18th centuries. There is a starry vault inside the church, neo-baroque organ prospect from 1912, the organs from 1860, which to this day not only serve the worshipers but also the Polish and international virtuosos during the annual summer organ festivals organised by Koszalin Philharmonic. The patroness of the church is Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, the guardian of sailors and travellers.
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There may now be several fire-eating piano virtuosos who can execute the original notes, but few can liberate the prophetic music they contain as masterfully as Janice Weber does here.” Her eclectic recordings include Rachmaninoff’s complete transcriptions (IMP); with the Lydian Quartet, Leo Ornstein’s vast Piano Quintet (New World Records); flute and piano works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert; and waltz transcriptions of Godowsky, Rosenthal, and Friedman (IMP). For VAI, Weber recorded Liszt’s last Hungarian Rhapsody, one of only two living pianists to be included in a compendium of historic performances by nineteen artists.
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Important musical virtuosos are Leena Joutsenlahti, Teppo Repo and Virpi Forsberg. More traditional Finnish instruments include the kantele, which is a chordophone, and was used in the Kalevala by the hero Väinämöinen. More primitive instruments like the jouhikko (a bowed lyre) and the säkkipilli (Finnish bagpipe) had fallen into disuse, but are now finding new popularity in a folk revival. In the 20th century, influences from modern music and dances such as jazz and foxtrot led to distinctively Finnish forms of dance music, such as humppa and jenkka.
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During its composition, Weber designated the work as a sonata, but abandoned that title upon its completion. This decision reflected the work's character as more of a showcase for two virtuosos than a conventionally structured and integrated work. The first movement is in sonata form, the second movement is an Andante in C minor, and the finale is a lilting rondo in E-flat major. The British music critic John Warrack suggests the work could be referred to as a "double concerto without orchestra", reflecting the highly virtuosic roles for both performers.
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A versatile musician, Pickett earned his doctorate from Peabody Conservatory and his conducting activities range from symphony to opera, musical theater and choral work. In Juneau, he led the orchestra in classical favorites including Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler, Holst’s The Planets, and Stravinsky's Firebird. He invited soloists including Alexander Tutanov, Mateusz Wolski, Michal Palzewicz, Annaliesa Place, Ricardo Gallardo and local violin virtuosos Linda and Paul Rosenthal, to perform concertos by Beethoven, Bruch, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius and others. He also programmed concertos for flute, horn, euphonium, trombone, maracas and djembe.
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CDZA, short for Collective Cadenza, creates musical video experiments featuring highly trained musical virtuosos, particularly from music schools in the New York City area. Following the success of "The History Of Lyrics That Aren't Lyrics", the official cdza YouTube channel was launched May 1, 2012. Releasing a new musical video experiment every other Tuesday cdza has been featured by CNN, ADWEEK, Fast Company, Perez Hilton, Boing Boing, Entertainment Weekly,Photo from Entertainment Weekly posted on Facebook and various other news outlets. It was founded by Joe Sabia, Matt McCorkle, and Michael Thurber.
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The term "hammer-ons from nowhere" is commonly employed when crossing strings and relying solely on fretting hand strength to produce a note but on a plucked string. Many guitar virtuosos are well-versed in the legato technique, as it allows for rapid and "clean" runs. Multiple hammer-ons and pull-offs together are sometimes also referred to colloquially as "rolls," a reference to the fluid sound of the technique. A rapid series of hammer-ons and pull-offs between a single pair of notes is called a trill.
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The "Perspectives" series is recorded and released on the Avie label; recent discs include the second installment of the series, as well as a recital disc of Prokofiev, Wagner, and Franck with Marina Piccinini, his wife. The Chicago Tribune wrote, "Unlike many virtuosos, Haefliger is a musician first and pianist second... Andreas Haefliger is a pianist to watch. More importantly, he is a pianist to listen to." He played with major US orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra among them.
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Myatt now hosts his own series – Virgin Virtuosos on Sky Arts, where he takes celebrities and recreates a famous painting. Myatt has said of his forgeries, > When I paint in the style of one of the greats… Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh… I > am not simply creating a copy or pale imitation of the original. Just as an > actor immerses himself into a character, I climb into the minds and lives of > each artist. I adopt their techniques and search for the inspiration behind > each great artist’s view of the world. Then, and only then, do I start to > paint a ‘Legitimate Fake’.
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One Little Indian To do this, she recorded noises around her house to make beats out of them. Once the songs were almost finished, Björk contacted the duo Matmos, who she considered "virtuosos" in the field, and sent them various songs to work with. They added beats made from the noise of crushing ice and shuffling cards, among others. In her documentary Minuscule, Björk explained that this process consisted of "taking something very tiny and magnifying it up to big", intending to convey the "sensation that you've been told a secret", that is also present in micrographs.
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He did, however, contribute to the legitimacy of the double bass as a melodic instrument, "open[ing] the door for virtuosos like [Duke Ellington Orchestra bassist] Jimmy Blanton to garner more respect for the instrument", through improvisation. "Without Page setting the table", writes DiCaire, "the exploits of Blanton would never have happened." "I'm not just a bass player", Page once said, "I'm a musician with a foundation." Page had a complex understanding of the roles of all the instruments in his bands, due in no small part to the fact that he was a multi-instrumentalist himself.
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Eddie Van Halen using the tapping technique Van Halen's 1978 instrumental solo "Eruption", which was voted number 2 in Guitar Worlds readers poll of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos",About.com, 100 Greatest Guitar Solos; accessed December 1, 2017.Rollingstone.com, 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time showcased a solo technique called tapping, using both left and right hands on the guitar neck. Although he popularized tapping, he did not invent the technique, which had been used by flamenco guitarists for at least a century, as well as the likes of Western virtuosos like Paganini on both violin and guitar.
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Accomplished artists specializing in mandocello performance in 21st century America are relatively few in number, and only a modest number of contemporary recordings prominently feature the instrument. One American mandocello artist, Stanley Greenthal, is a specialist in the music of Brittany and an instructor at Zouk Fest. The mandolinist Radim ZenklRadim Zenkl is also well known for performances of American, Italian, and other European folk music on the mandocello. One recent recording with mandolin virtuosos Carlo AonzoCarlo Aonzo and David Grisman has featured Zenkl's mandocello on the album of Italian folk music "Traversata" published by Acoustic Disc.
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While his methods could be dictatorial, the results of his influence were several works which established these composers' reputations individually and as a group. He performed a similar function for Tchaikovsky at two points in the latter's careerin 1868–69 with the fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet and in 1882–85 with the Manfred Symphony. As a composer, Balakirev finished major works many years after he had started them; he began his First Symphony in 1864 but completed it in 1897. The exception to this was his oriental fantasy Islamey for solo piano, which he composed quickly and remains popular among virtuosos.
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In 1983, she accepted the chair of music professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim. From that time, teaching became her great passion and an opportunity to share her instrumental skills and experience as a musician with the next generation of virtuosos. In 1999 she joined the teaching staff of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and since February 2001 also worked for the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne. She continued to be a part of musical life in Europe, flying between the two continents for concerts, master classes and competitions, while remaining involved in musical life in Australia.
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Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra is composed of eleven classically trained musicians, which interpret elements of Chinese folk music. Yang Jing is the director and founder of NPFCO, Yang is a professor and tutor of masters students at the China Music Conservatory, and one of the most famous pipa virtuosos in China. Liu Shun is the music director and conductor of the New Purple Forbidden City Orchestra, Liu is also professor and tutor of master students at the China Music Conservatory in Beijing. Liu studied at both the Central Conservatory of Music and the China Music Conservatory.
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The festival takes place in several concert halls, churches and other venues in Turku such as the Turku Concert Hall, the Academy Hall, the Turku Cathedral, Sigyn Hall, the Turku Castle and the Sibelius Museum. The program consists of orchestral concerts by Turku's own philharmonic orchestra as well as several visiting ensembles and conductors, well-known soloists, chamber musicians, jazz virtuosos and also several staged or semi-staged music performances. From 2019 the festival's artistic director will be conductor and cellist Klaus Mäkelä. Previous artistic directors have been pianist/conductor Ville Matvejeff, tenor Topi Lehtipuu, pianist/conductor Olli Mustonen and cellist Martti Rousi.
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At the age of 15, he was sent to Hamburg to apprentice at Fürst, Haller & Comp. He was also very talented musically. In 1807 his teacher introduced him to amateur musicians who performed string quartets on domestic salon music evenings. In this way, during his time in Hamburg, not least because he was a popular guest with the merchant families Fürst and Haller, he came into close contact with two virtuosos at that time, the violinist Andreas Romberg, who soon took over Gerson's training as a composer, and the cellist Bernhard Romberg (a cousin of Andreas).
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Example of an ossia The many existing editions have numerous alternative passages (ossias) – most are easier, some are more difficult. This technical difficulty made it a favourite with virtuosos such as Nikolai Rubinstein (who premiered the piece), Franz Liszt, and in recorded history, Simon Barere, Julius Katchen, György Cziffra, Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Pletnev, Ivo Pogorelić, and Lang Lang. Balakirev, considered a virtuoso pianist in his time, once admitted that there were passages in the piece that he "couldn't manage." Also, Alexander Scriabin seriously damaged his right hand fanatically practicing the piece along with Liszt's Réminiscences de Don Juan, though the injury eventually healed.
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The fiddle is perhaps the most common instrument utilized and is used by virtuosos such as Jean Carignan, Jos Bouchard, and Joseph Allard. Also common is the diatonic button accordion, played by the likes of Philippe Bruneau and Alfred Montmarquette. Spoons, bones, and jaw harps are also played in this music. A distinctive part of the French Canadian sound is podorythmie ("foot rhythm"), which involves using the feet to tap out complex rhythmic patterns, it is quite similar to tap dancing but is done from a seated position, and can be done simultaneously while playing the violin or other small instruments.
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Mario Escudero Valero Jiménez Valverde (October 11, 1928 – November 19, 2004) was one of a handful of Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who helped spread flamenco beyond their homeland when they migrated to the United States in the early 1950s. After completing his obligatory military service in Spain, he toured with the best known companies at the time (including Vicente Escudero, Jose Greco and Carmen Amaya). Eventually, his lifetime childhood friend, Juan Antonio Aguero, married Carmen Amaya, and Mario married her sister Maria, with whom he had a son (Juan Antonio Jesus). He soon travelled to the US as first soloist.
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He received official congratulations from the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Bronisław Geremek, and from other members of Polish authorities. He was in the news on every Polish TV channel, some (TVN) broadcasting live from his home. He was not only on the first pages of Rzeczpospolita and Dziennik Polski, but also featured in popular magazines like Elle, that rarely (if ever) cover contemporary classical music. The awarded composition, which in its original form is a concerto for electric guitar, was scheduled to be performed in Strasbourg and in Polish cities by one of renowned guitar virtuosos.
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Leonhard von Call Leonhard von Call (19 March 1767 – 19 February 1815), sometimes referred to as "Leonhard de Call", was an Austrian composer and virtuoso on the mandolin and guitar.Philip J. BoneThe Guitar and Mandolin, biographies of celebrated players and composers for these instruments, London: Schott and Co., 1914. During his lifetime he focused less on performing and more upon teaching and writing music for others to play. A virtuoso, he wrote not for other virtuosos but for the people he was teaching or amateurs, and today it is felt by some musicians that his works "made no great technical demands".
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When Kang had turned to be five years of age, she had moved to Lübeck to study under Professor Zakhar Bronchiole. At this same age, Clara-Jumi Kang had made her concerto debut with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. When Clara had aged to be six, she had appeared on the cover of German magazine Die Zeit, in which she had written a main article featuring herself, depicting her as 'Wunderkind'. Kang's parents had sent recordings of her playing the violin to the famed Dorothy DeLay, teacher of legendary virtuosos such as Itzhak Perlman and Sarah Chang.
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A celebrated pianist, Herz traveled worldwide, including tours in Europe, Russia, Mexico, South America, and in the United States of America between 1846 and 1850, where he concertized all the way to San Francisco. His performances were compared to the more extravagant manner of Leopold de Meyer, concertizing in the United States during the same period (1845–47).R. Allen Lott, From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland . He wrote a book about his experiences abroad, Mes voyages en Amérique (Paris: Achille Faure, 1866), translated by Henry Bertram Hill as My Travels in America (1963).
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Although not a familiar name outside musician's circles, guitar virtuosos such as Rusty Cooley, Michael Romeo, Guthrie Govan, Buckethead, Paul Gilbert – who called Lane "the most terrifying guy of all time" during a guitar clinic when asked about his thoughts on Lane's guitar playing skills – and many others regard Lane's work highly. In 2008, Guitar World magazine wrote, "Few, if any, guitarists can play faster than Lane could, and his arpeggio sweeps and precision-picked lines blasted more rapid-fire notes than the average human mind could comprehend.". Guitar World. 2008-11-20. Archived from the original on 2011-05-11.
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All three of Madetoja's stage works, furthermore, have now been recorded in their complete, unabridged form—two recordings of The Ostrobothnians (Finlandia, 1975: Jorma Panula and the Finnish National Opera Orchestra; and, Finlandia, 1998: Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra) and one each of Juha (Ondine, 1977: Jussi Julas and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra) and of Okon Fuoko (Alba, 2002: Volmer and the Oulu Symphony Orchestra). The Madetoja School of Music, a special music high school in Oulu named in Madetoja's memory. Nordic vocalists, virtuosos, and ensembles have preserved many of Madetoja's non-orchestral pieces as well.
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From 1963 to 1967, the Pomeranian Philharmonic hosted the Festival of Polish Music, later revamped into "Bydgoszcz Music Festival". As a homage to his major contributions to the development of the Philharmonic and his outstanding cultural role, brought her longtime manager, Andrej Szwalbe has been nominated "Honorary Citizen of Bydgoszcz". Another of his realizations is the inception of the "music district", surrounding the building of the Philharmonic Music and comprising the Bydgoszcz Music Academy - "Feliks Nowowiejski" and the sculpture gallery of composers and virtuosos. On the front square of the Philharmonic has been built in the 1970s an organ- shaped fountain.
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Originally the guitar was, together with other instruments, already part of the accompaniment of folkloric fandango of Málaga. At that time its function was merely rhythmic and limited to the use of one technique, the strumming pattern called "abandolao". As malagueñas slowed down their tempo and professional guitarists came into place, short solos and ornaments were incorporated. The great revolution of the malagueña guitar playing came together with its transformation into a "cante libre": flamenco virtuosos like Ramón Montoya started introducing classical guitar techniques like arpeggio, scales, tremolo, and enriched it with a wider variety of chord positions.
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Abram Ilich Yampolsky ( (; 1890-1956) was an eminent Soviet violin teacher who nurtured many Russian virtuosos during his tenure at the Moscow Conservatory. He graduated in Petersburg in 1913 in the class of Sergej Korguyev, a pupil and assistant of Leopold Auer, and was to be one of the founders of the Russian and American 20th century violin schools. His pupils include Leonid Kogan, Julian Sitkovetsky, Igor Bezrodniy, Yakov Boroditsky, Boris Goldstein, Elizabeth Gilels, Mikhail Fikhtengoltz, Yakov Rabinovich, Isaac Zhuk, Mark Lubotsky. He was the uncle of Izrail Markovich Yampolsky (Kiev, 1905–76) who graduated with him in 1930.
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He is best known as the first interpreter of Prokofiev's 1st Violin Concerto premiered on 18 October 1923. After the refusal of several well-known violin virtuosos (in particular, Bronisław Huberman) to approach this concerto, the composer entrusted the soloist part to the first solo violin of the orchestra. As Darrieux wrote in a letter to Prokofiev, "the musician was until then in absolute darkness, and since he played your concerto with Koussevitzky, I received an invitation to perform it in Paris 3 times during the season, not counting the invitations to the provinces." In the second half of the 1920s, Darrieux collaborated with the conductor Walther Straram.
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Instrumental pieces played on an erhu or dizi are popular, and are often available outside of China, but qin, pipa and zheng music, which is more traditional, are more popular in China itself. The qin is perhaps the national instrument of China, and its virtuosos are stars. These include Zha Fuxi, Wu Wen'guang, Lin Youren, Wu Jinglue, Wu Zhaoji, Guan Pinghu, Zhang Zijian, Li Xiangting, and Gong Yi. The zheng, a form of zither, is most popular in Henan, Chaozhou, Hakka, and Shandong. The pipa, a kind of lute, believing introduced from Arab areas during 6th century and improved, is most popular in Shanghai and surrounding areas.
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Alfa-Bank is actively working in cultural and educational activities primarily aimed at supporting national art. On 7 June 2000, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and Alfa-Bank signed a cooperation agreement, under which the participants agreed to join efforts aimed at the implementation of joint cultural events and creative projects. Every year, with the support of a bank in Russia, exhibitions and concerts are held. In addition, Alfa-Bank participates in the organization of exhibitions and concerts of Russian cultural figures abroad. For example, on 18 February 2000, a concert of the Moscow Virtuosos Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestro Vladimir Spivakov took place in London.
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In her early career, before her marriage to Robert Schumann, she played what was then customary, mainly bravura pieces designed to showcase the artist's technique, often in the form of arrangements or variations on popular themes from operas, written by virtuosos such as Thalberg, Herz, or Henselt. As it was also customary to play one's own compositions, she included at least one of her own works in every program, works such as her Variations on a Theme by Bellini (Op. 8) and her popular Scherzo (Op. 10). Her works include songs, piano pieces, a piano concerto, a piano trio, choral pieces, and three Romances for violin and piano.
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At age 20 he won a prize in Barcelona and was chosen as one of two German students in the performing arts to continue his studies in New York City with scholarships from the Annette Kade Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. In New York he had lessons with Gary Graffman, Vladimir Horowitz's favourite pupil, who taught him much of the core classical and romantic repertoire. He continued his studies at the Vienna Music Academy under Hans Kann and then in London with Peter Wallfisch at the Royal College of Music. Master classes with virtuosos Shura Cherkassky, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and many others completed his studies.
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Konnov has given concerts in numerous concert halls in Germany (Gasteig), Spain (National Auditorium of Music, Palau de la Música Catalana, Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall), France (Salle Cortot in Paris), Russia (Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory), Italy (Teatro Dal Verme, Casa di Riposo per Musicisti), Austria (Konzerthaus, Vienna,), Netherlands, Poland, Malta, Uzbekistan, Japan, South Africa and Morocco. He has performed as soloist with such orchestras as the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya, Orquestra Internacional "Virtuosos de Madrid", Orchestra Filarmonica "Mihail Jora", Orchestra Sinfonica Citta di Grosseto, Orchestra "Antonio Vivaldi", Ryazan Symphony Orchestra, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Augsburger Philharmoniker.
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Over the years, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra has introduced classical music lovers in Istanbul to some of the world's foremost musicians. The orchestra has had the privilege of performing with virtuosos such as Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Gluzman, Dimitris Sgouros, Alexander Rudin, Suna Kan, Idil Biret, Fazıl Say, Ayşegül Sarıca, Meral Güneyman, Ayla Erduran, Verda Erman, Gülsin Onay, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Olga Kern, Corey Cerovsek and Stanislav Ioudenitch. Celebrated guest conductors, who have led the orchestra include Igor Oistrak, Emil Tabakov, Giuseppe Lanzetta, Fabiano Monica, Alain Paris, and Ender Sakpınar. In addition, BIFO has also been accompanied by the Wiener Singverein, one of the world's leading choirs.
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Marguerite Yourcenar translated The Waves into French over a period of ten months in 1937. She met Virginia Woolf during this period and wrote: "I do not believe I am committing an error ... when I put Virginia Woolf among the four or five great virtuosos of the English language and among the rare contemporary novelists whose work stands some chance of lasting more than ten years." Although The Waves is not one of Virginia Woolf's most famous works, it is highly regarded. Literary scholar Frank N. Magill ranked it one of the 200 best books of all time in his reference book, Masterpieces of World Literature.
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" (Ates Orga, Records and Recording, Feb. 1975) It was followed in 1971 by Liszt's two-piano and piano, four-hand versions of 4 Operatic Transcriptions (Réminiscenses de Mozart's 'Don Juan', Réminiscences de Bellini's Norma, Réminiscences de Bellini's 'La Sonnambula', and the Tscherkessenmarsch from Glinka's 'Russlan und Ludmila'). > "If somewhere in the world, there were a music lover about 130, he might – > were he very fortunate – have heard these works played by Liszt and Tausig. > Asked to describe the manner in which these two great and legendary > virtuosos played, it would not be surprising were he to put this record on > his turntable and say, 'They played like that.
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Tele-U, the first solo project of the guitarist Alexander Liapin, was put together in the winter of 1983, when he was joined by the guitarist Vladimir Gustov and several musicians played in other St. Petersburg's rock-club bands. Having been thought out as a duo of the two blues-guitar virtuosos, the project became a great success. Tele-U took part in the second and third rock music festivals. The group won a major award in the category "Musical Performance" at the second festival; both Liapin and Troshchenkov (drums) won awards as best musicians; the song "No to a War" was named among the best of the festival.
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One of early rural blues, ragtime, and marching band music were combined with collective improvisation to create this new style of music. At first, the music was known by various names such as "hot music", "hot ragtime" and "ratty music"; the term "jazz" (early on often spelled "jass") did not become common until the 1910s. The early style was exemplified by the bands of such musicians as Freddie Keppard, Jelly Roll Morton, "King" Joe Oliver, Kid Ory. The next generation took the young art form into more daring and sophisticated directions, with such creative musical virtuosos as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Red Allen.
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The Million Dollar Band was an all-star group of session musicians that often performed on the Hee Haw television variety show from August 1980 through November 1988. The group's members included some of Nashville's most well- known virtuosos at their respective instruments: Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph, Floyd Cramer, Charlie McCoy, Danny Davis, Jethro Burns and Johnny Gimble, along with Hee Haw co-host Roy Clark. Many of them, at one time or another, were members of The Nashville A-Team, the list of session musicians responsible for creating the famous Nashville Sound. Of the group's eight members, only McCoy (the youngest of the group) is still alive as of 2018.
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ARCCF has arranged acclaimed performances by prominent Russian and American virtuosos and has produced major events at the Russian Embassy, the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery, and on Capitol Hill. It has showcased visual and performing arts and has celebrated the most important joint pages of American-Russian history. Among the Honorary Chairs of ARCCF's events were US and Russian Presidents as well as leaders of the US Senate and House of Representatives. Attendees at ARCCF's celebrations and galas have included First Ladies, the US Vice President, the Russian Prime Minister, as well as members of the US Cabinet, Senate, and House of Representatives.
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He played with the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, the Czech premiere of Giovanni Bottesini's First Double Bass Concerto, from which Gajdoš undertook, from the 1990s, several concert tours in the US and made his mark as one of the greatest bass virtuosos of the 20th century. Since 1973, was Gajdoš Professor at the Conservatory of Kroměříž. He later taught, among others, in Moscow, Debrecen, Miskolc, Munich, Dresden, and Berlin and gave master classes in 1997 at New York's Juilliard School. His pupils included Radomír Žalud, Miloslav Bubeníček, Roman Koudelka, Radoslav Šašina, Miloslav Jelínek, Pavel Klečka, Martin Šranko, Eva Šašinková, Luděk Zakopal, Miloslav Raisigl, Petr Ries, and Jan Staněk.
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Near the end of his life he worked as an organist at the San Francisco Convent in Guanabacoa, Havana. José White dedicated his last study, from a series of six to Secundino Arango, thus highlighting with his homage the renown acquired by this Havanese musician during his lifetime. Within the universe of the classical Cuban violin during the 19th century, there are two outstanding masters that may be considered among the greatest violin virtuosos of all times; they are José White Lafitte y Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido. After receiving his first musical instruction from his father, the virtuoso Cuban violinist José White Lafitte (1835-1918) offered his first concert in Matanzas on March 21, 1854.
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En el camino del color), this work was followed by Ignacio "Indio" Figueredo (1972), a short film about the great Venezuelan harpist; the same year made Merida is Not A Town (1972), (Mérida no es un pueblo), an experimental short film. Also he wrote and directed the medium-length Like Islands in Time (1975) (Como islas en el tiempo), about the Charles Brewer-Carias expedition to the tepuis Sarisariñama and Jaua, located in Amazonas (Venezuela). Also produced, wrote and directed Virtuosos (1999), about Venezuelan folk musicians of the 20th century. As well, he wrote with Diana Abreu Bach In Zaraza (2000), a short musical about an imaginary trip to Venezuela of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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In the 1990s, hip-hop became popular with rap pioneers Rakim, EPMD, MF DOOM, and Public Enemy growing up on Long Island. Long Island was the home of a bustling emo scene in the 2000s, with bands such as Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Straylight Run, From Autumn to Ashes and As Tall as Lions. More recently, newer acts from Long Island, including Austin Schoeffel, Jon Bellion, and Envy on the Coast, have made a name for themselves. Famous rock bands from Long Island include The Rascals, The Ramones (from Queens), Dream Theater, Blue Öyster Cult, Twisted Sister and guitar virtuosos Donald (Buck Dharma) Roeser, John Petrucci, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, as well as drummer Mike Portnoy.
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In many musical idioms it belongs to the tradition of stringed instruments to work with different tunings, adapted to the demands of the piece of music. Therefore, it is not surprising, that Bashir experimented with a lot of tunings. A common tuning of the Arabian oud – "Arabian" in contrast to the almost identical Turkish instrument, that has a slightly different history – is: Julien Weiss Discusses Traditional and Contemporary Arab Music, by Sami Asmar The reesha is held in the palm of one's hand, resulting in a difficultly learnable picking technique; furthermore the doubled strings have a less controllable attack than single strings. Therefore, the inevitable rhythmic reliability in fastest, asymmetric accented, melodies is a special trademark of virtuosos.
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According to Edwin M. Ripin (see references below), the force needed to depress a key on a Viennese fortepiano was only about a fourth of what it is on a modern piano, and the descent of the key only about half as much. Thus playing the Viennese fortepiano involved nothing like the athleticism exercised by modern piano virtuosos, but did require exquisite sensitivity of touch. Stein put the wood used in his instruments through a very severe weathering process, and this included the generation of cracks in the wood, into which he would then insert wedges. This gave his instruments a considerable longevity, on which Mozart commented, and there are several instruments surviving today.
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Pang Chai-sip (; 1914–2005) was a renowned Hong Kong artist of the Lingnan school (嶺南畫派) of Chinese painting. Born in Guangdong, Pang started his life in art as a student at the Art Institute of Guangzhou (), by which he learnt his painting skills and philosophy with virtuosos in the field like Li Yanshan, Li Jinfa (李金髮), Chao Shao-an, Huang Junbi (黃君璧) and Li Xiongcai (黎雄才). During World War II, Pang fled from warfare and settled in Hong Kong. In 1958, Lingnan-style painters including Li Yanshan, Chao Shao-an, and Pang founded the Hong Kong Chinese Art Club () with the view to promote Chinese arts in Hong Kong.
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Discipline reached number 41 in the UK Albums Chart and received mixed to positive reviews. John Piccarella's review in Rolling Stone praised the talent and artistry of the four musicians of King Crimson, particularly Belew and Fripp's "visionary approach to guitar playing", but criticized the "arty content" of the album itself, concluding "Here's hoping that, unlike every other King Crimson lineup, this band of virtuosos stays together long enough to transform all of their experiments into innovations." Robert Christgau described the album as "not bad--the Heads meet the League of Gentlemen." Greg Prato's retrospective review in AllMusic gave his approval of the album, particularly applauding the unexpectedly successful combinations of Fripp and Belew's disparate playing styles.
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The same year, Gruenling commenced on a project to record a tribute album to Little Walter, and ended up working alongside Kim Wilson, Rick Estrin and Steve Guyger, plus Rusty Zinn on guitar, to record I Just Keep Lovin' Him : A Tribute to Little Walter (2008). Gruenling and Guyger were described as "two youthful, white virtuosos" of the harmonica. The album included a cover version of Little Walter's "If You Were Mine", with the vocals supplied by Gruenling's wife, Gina Fox. In putting together a band to support the album, Gruenling turned to the Detroit-based guitarist Doug Deming, which led to them and Deming's backing ensemble, the Jewel Tones, collaborating on various recordings.
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On July 23, 2013, she appeared in Drunk History retelling the history of how Coca-Cola was made. In 2014, Slate starred in the comedy-drama film Obvious Child, which follows the life of a young stand up comic as she grapples with an unplanned pregnancy and eventual abortion. Slate went on to win the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy, Best Breakout Performance at the Newport Beach Film Festival, the Virtuosos Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and Best Comedic Actress at the Women Film Circle Awards for her performance in the film. Slate co-starred with Judy Greer and Nat Faxon in the first season of the FX series Married.
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Malian musical duo Amadou et Mariam are known internationally for their music, combining Malian and international influences. Malian musical traditions are often derived from Mande griots or jalis, a family-based caste of performing poets. While today, griots are often seen as praise singers at local weddings or civic events, where historically they served as court historians, advisors, and diplomats. The music of Mali is best known outside of Africa for the kora virtuosos Toumani Diabaté and Ballaké Sissoko, the late roots and blues guitarist Ali Farka Touré, and his successors Afel Bocoum and Vieux Farka Touré, the Tuareg band Tinariwen, and several Afro-pop artists such as Salif Keita, the duo Amadou et Mariam, and Oumou Sangaré.
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About Mice and People performance was nominated for the Taras Shevchenko National Award. For the first time in the history, the Shevchenko Prize was awarded to Glib Zagoriy as a philanthropist in 2006, although he was officially named only as the author of the idea. Glib Zagoriy believes that government expenses for therapy, rehabilitation and social support of patients can be reduced if investments are made in the disease prevention. That is why one of the focus areas of his charities is to support healthcare projects. In 2006, Glib Zagoriy supported the Ray of Hope charity evening featuring Vladimir Spivakov and the Virtuosos of Moscow chamber orchestra to help people with multiple sclerosis.
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The instrument was the largest in the world at the time of its construction and contained more than 10,000 pipes. The organ, even though it wasn't completed on time and was only partially functional during the first weeks of the fair (due in large part to the enormous financial burden the construction was placing on the firm), was played by some of the most famous virtuosos of the time. Most notably is probably Felix Alexandre Guilmant (see Alexandre Guilmant) who played a series of 40 concerts in a six-week period. The organ was extremely well received and the Los Angeles Art Organ Company was awarded a gold medal from the World's Fair for its construction.
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Later that year, he would start working on Nito Canta Sui in Miami and Los Angeles together with a cast of musicians of extraordinary talent and international repute. These included Julian Navarro, also the producer, John Robinson (drums), Larry Coryel (guitar), Abraham Laboriel (base), Alex Acuna (percussion) Tom Scott (Saxophone), the Los Angeles String Ensemble amongst other virtuosos in the world of music. This album gave Mestre the opportunity of a lifetime to record the old Sui Generis classic songs to the sounds of the modern age. Nito has also performed these songs to the most enthusiastic of audiences all over Latin America and even to this day, he continues to perform the symphonic version of the songs with classical orchestras around Argentina.
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David Arden was born in Los Angeles. He received early piano instruction from Arthur Frazer in San Diego. Arden went on to study with Aube Tzerko at UCLA (Los Angeles), Lucy Brown at Peabody Conservatory of Music (Baltimore), Frederic Gevers at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory (Antwerp, Belgium), and Aloys Kontarsky at the Cologne Musikhochschule (Cologne, Germany).American Piano Music LP/Musica Magna, liner notes Arden received his Concert Diploma (Hoger Diploma) from the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory in 1974 and subsequently won a number of awards: 1st place at the Tenuto-Young Virtuosos Competition (Brussels, Belgium);American Piano Music LP/Musica Magna, liner notes 1st place at the Gaudeamus International Competition for Interpreters of Contemporary Music (Rotterdam, the Netherlands); and the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (Darmstadt, Germany).
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2, which featured Paquito D'Rivera and Rolando Laserie, was released in 1995 and was also nominated for Best Tropical Latin Album but lost to Gloria Estefan's Abriendo Puertas. In 1995, Nick Gold (head of World Circuit Records) and Juan de Marcos González (director and tres player of Sierra Maestra) decided to record a series of descarga sessions featuring established Cuban musicians together with African virtuosos Toumani Diabate (kora player) and Djelimady Tounkara (guitarist). By early 1996, the Cuban musicians had been already selected and the African musicians were about to travel to Cuba, but due to difficulties in obtaining visas they could not make it. Gold then invited Ry Cooder and his son Joachim to participate in the sessions; Ry would play guitar and Joachim African percussion.
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He ended up purchasing a cheap acoustic guitar at a garage sale. Influenced by Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Rush, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, he became serious about the guitar after listening to the albums Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman by Ozzy Osbourne. He was also heavily influenced by the neoclassical technique and style of Randy Rhoads, Ritchie Blackmore, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Uli Jon Roth and guitar virtuosos like Shawn Lane; along with well-known composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven and Igor Stravinsky. Romeo's own influence has rubbed off on younger players, including DragonForce's Herman Li, who listed Romeo among his Top 10 favorite guitarists in 2011.
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In the late 18th century, people began to use the term to describe an instrumentalist or vocalist who pursued a career as a soloist. The tension about the merit of practical virtuosity started to grow at the same time and intensified in the 19th century, only to remain an open debate since then. Franz Liszt, considered one of the greatest of all virtuosos, declared that "virtuosity is not an outgrowth, but an indispensable element of music" (Gesammelte Schriften, iv, 1855–9). Richard Wagner opposed the triviality and exhibitionist talents of the performer voicing his opinion strongly: > The real dignity of the virtuoso rests solely on the dignity he is able to > preserve for creative art; if he trifles and toys with this, he casts his > honour away.
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Vandergutch offered numerous concerts as a soloist and accompanied by several orchestras, around the mid-19th century. He was a member of the Classical Music Association and also a Director of The "Asociación Musical de Socorro Mutuo de La Habana." Within the universe of the classical Cuban violin during the 19th century, there are two outstanding Masters that may be considered among the greatest violin virtuosos of all time; they are José White Lafitte y Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido. José White in 1856, after receiving ana award from the Conservatoire de Paris After receiving his first musical instruction from his father, the virtuoso Cuban violinist José White Lafitte (1835–1918) offered his first concert in Matanzas on March 21, 1854.
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Japanese jiuta-mai dancer Sayuri Uno, American academic Laura Hein (Northwestern University) and Italian philosopher Marco Forlivesi (University of Padua) also made a significant contribution to this process. The recording gathers accomplished masters and new-generation virtuosos, while the instrumental techniques developed on purpose for these works are likely to be among the most demanding ever written for these instruments. The recording technology employed (24bit/96kHz) brings forth clarity of sound and dynamics, delicacy and a high dynamic range, with a main focus on timbre, textures and transparency. The artistic photograph reproduced on the album cover is a shot taken by Carlo Forlivesi and Sayuri Uno in "Shisendō", a historic spot in Kyoto; it represents a round-shaped Tsukubai enhanced by natural shadows and reflections.
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She began playing the violin at age of seven, initially taught by her father. After finishing the local music school, she moved to Austria in order to study with Helfried Fister at the Conservatory of Music in Klagenfurt where she obtained her music degree with distinction. She continued her musical studies at the College of Music and Arts in Bern, Switzerland and at the University of Music »Mozarteum« in Salzburg with Igor Ozim, where she finished her masterstudies with distinction."Young virtuosos: violinist Bozena Angelov (VPS 12:40)" - TV Vecer To complement her university education, she attended many courses by renowned musicians, including Thomas Brandis, Tibor Varga, Evgenia Tchugaeva, Mintcho Mintchev, Rainer Schmidt, Siegmund Nissel, Emerson String Quartet, and Bruno Canino.
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He is composer-in- residence for Virtuosos de Cámara, an international chamber ensemble composed of performers from Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, Romania, Canada and America. The ensemble’s home base is Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and is focused on presenting new chamber music, cross-cultural performances and music by Mexican composers. 2020 performances by members of the ensemble included premieres of several new works by Kreitler, including Sonata Andalusia for two violins; “Poets End Up Living Their Madness” a suite for piano, two violins, flute, clarinet/sax, percussion and electronics inspired by poems from Mexico; Fragility of Culture:Culture of Fragility; and his arrangement for the ensemble of the classic Mexican ballad by Manuel Ponce, Estrellita. Kreitler’s film/TV music has been heard by audiences in over thirty countries internationally.
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" Sims described seeing displeased audiences throw bottles and even horseshoes at performers who he did not hustle off stage fast enough. When The New York Times interviewed him about his "executioner" role, he said of the acts that got booed off, "I tell them to work on their act and come back," encouraging them to try again. In 1986, Sims starred in The Tap Tradition at Symphony Space New York (which also hosted a showing of No Maps on My Taps), earning a rave review from The New York Times. He also made a brief appearance in a play based on his life, The Sand Dancer, which was written by poet Sandra Hochman and starred LeLand Gantt, and which received another rave review: "Sims is a virtuoso among virtuosos—in a class by himself.
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The number of experts and virtuosos who have the knowledge and skills to meet the demands of an orchestra that plans to perform works that contain parts written for the mandolin includes, in France, about ten people. In order to meet this demand, Beer-Demander participates in around a hundred concerts each year. This activity allows him to collaborate, exchange and put his talent at the disposal of orchestras such as: the National Orchestra of France, the National Orchestra of the Capitole of Toulouse, the Bastille Opera or the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra . Since 1997, he has formed with Gregory Morello, the Duo Chitarrone which performs with orchestras or groups of musicians, amateurs and professionals, with the aim of making known the qualities and the many possibilities offered by string or plectrum ensembles.
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Instead he typically turned to communicating in writing, carrying on personal conversations with the use of note cards, the backs of letters, scratch paper, and other handy paper. Archivist and historiographer Gary Topping noted that "...because Morgan’s deafness shifted his communication with the external world entirely to the written world, his world became a literary world, and the long hours of practice with the written world turned him into a virtuosos of English prose in the same way that musical practice produces virtuosity."Topping. (p. 118) As an adult his publication manuscripts exhibit heavy revisions and editing, while his letters flow through his manual typewriters and onto paper as seemingly seamless compositions, almost without typographic error. The advent of the Depression, and Morgan’s deafness, reduced his ability to find employment after graduation from high school.
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As skill levels increased through apprenticeships several fiddle masters appeared such as the Cassidy's, Connie Haughey, Jimmy Lyons and Miock McShane of Teelin and Francie Dearg and Mickey Bán Byrne of Kilcar. These virtuosos played unaccompanied listening pieces in addition to the more common dance music. The influences between Scotland and Donegal went both ways and were furthered by a wave of immigration from Donegal to Scotland in the 19th century (the regions share common names of dances), as can be heard in the volume of strathspeys, schottisches, marches, and Donegal's own strong piping tradition, has influenced and been influenced by music, and by the sounds, ornaments, and repertoire of the Píob Mhór, the traditional bagpipes of Ireland and Scotland. There are other differences between the Donegal style and the rest of Ireland.
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From 2009–13 he went on to study with Manuel Barrueco at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, USA.Peabody Institute, Barrueco Studio 2012-2013 Kosovo 2.0 Çeku has performed many recitals throughout Europe and the Americas and was a soloist with orchestras such as Baltimore Symphony, Czech Chamber Philharmonic, State Hermitage Orchestra of St. Petersburg and Zagreb Philharmonic. He also appears regularly with the famed Zagreb Soloists and is a founding member of Guitar Trio Elogio.Guitar Trio Elogio FacebookYoung Masters International Musicians' Summer Class 2015 He regularly performs at music festivals such as Next Generation Festival,Festival Next Generation Bad Ragaz:Petrit Çeku Samobor Festival,Archive 9th Ferdo Livadić 2012 Panama Guitar Festival,Facebook Panama Guitar Festival Moscow Guitar Virtuosi Facebook Guitar Virtuosos Moscow International Festival and Prishtina’s Remusica Festival.
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Renaissance artists such as Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Bernini, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, and Titian, were among a multitude of innovative virtuosos sponsored by the Church. During both The Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation, Catholic artists produced many of the unsurpassed masterpieces of Western art often inspired by Biblical themes: from Michelangelo's David and Pietà sculptures, to Da Vinci's Last Supper and Raphael's various Madonna paintings. Referring to a "great outburst of creative energy such as took place in Rome between 1620 and 1660", Kenneth Clarke wrote: > [W]ith a single exception, the great artists of the time were all sincere, > conforming Christians. Guercino spent much of his mornings in prayer; > Bernini frequently went into retreats and practised the Spiritual Exercises > of Saint Ignatius; Rubens attended Mass every morning before beginning work.
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Alexei Romanenko has performed at venues such as Boston's Jordan Hall, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Chicago's Preston Bradley Hall among many others. He has also been heard on the international broadcast of "Voice of America" in Russia, broadcast live on Chicago's WFMT Fine Arts Radio, Atlanta's WABE, Boston's WGBH Radio “Classical Performances”, including “Musical Offering”on September 11, 2002. His performances were also broadcast on Chicago's TV Channel 25 as well as radio stations in San Francisco, Atlanta, Florida, Maine and Alabama. Romanenko has performed as a soloist with Jacksonville Symphony, Kensington Symphony, Nashua Symphony, Montgomery Symphony, Bar Harbor Music Festival Orchestra, Moscow Youth Chamber Orchestra, the Far Eastern TV and Radio orchestra, Udmurtia Philharmonic in a “Virtuosos of 21st century” concert among others.
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The resulting album, Son Inconcluso, featured a full band including bassist Orlando "Cachaíto" López and Arturo "Alambre dulce" Harvey (ex-tresero with Conjunto Chappottín), among others, and was released in 1999 by EGREM. In 1995, Nick Gold (head of World Circuit Records) and Juan de Marcos González (director and tres player of Sierra Maestra) decided to record a series of descarga sessions featuring classic Cuban musicians, including Rubén González on piano, together with African virtuosos Toumani Diabate (kora player) and Djelimady Tounkara (guitarist). By early 1996, the Cuban musicians had already been selected and the African musicians were about to leave for Cuba, but could not travel because of difficulties in obtaining visas. Gold then invited Ry Cooder and his son Joachim to participate in the sessions; Ry would play guitar and Joachim African percussion.
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Still in the same year, Gaudi's third album 'Earthbound' was released on a triple vinyl by Bustin Loose Recordings, giving him worldwide sales recognition and a solid exposure that led to his tracks appearing on numerous compilations. Earthbound contains music influences ranging from Indian ragas to African chanting and from Jamaican chatting to Italian traditional melodies, its one unifying factor being the flavors of reggae and dub. The album featured 39 musicians from around the globe, including Jamaican raggamuffin star General Levy, Indian singers Kiren Sambhi and Sonal Varsani, Sardinian voice virtuosos Tenores di Neoneli, Trio Cocco and Antonio Testa who provided the track Stalagmite, recorded in a cave playing natural stalagmites. The dub version of Earthbound, titled ‘Earthbound in Dub’ was also released later that year on Sub Signal.
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Pantheon in Rome in 1836, by Jakob Alt The Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon is one of the Pontifical Academies under the direction of the Holy See. The complete Italian name of the academy, Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Letteratura dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, includes the adjective insigne (illustrious), often omitted in official English translations. The term Virtuosi al Pantheon (virtuosos of the Pantheon) is also usually left untranslated, but, in any event, should not be taken in the English musical sense of “virtuoso” but rather “artists of great merit”. The Pantheon in Rome was the historical home of the academy. The term “academy” is meant in the Renaissance definition of the term as an association of learned persons and not an institution of instruction.
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He then lived in his home in Yvelines and half of his time in Paris where he gave private concerts. Davaux's first publications date from 1768, two ariettes, Les charmes de la liberté and Le portrait de Climène (both lost), followed by two opéras comiques presented in 1785 and 1786: Théodore, ou Le bonheur inattendu, libretto by B.-J. Marsollier des Vivetières, after a comedy by Hugh Kelly (False Delicacy), now lost, and Cécilia, ou Les trois tuteurs based on a novel by Fanny Burney, of which some extracts remain. Considering himself an "amateur", he was recognized by both the public and critics and considered the most esteemed French symphonist of French composers, except Gossec (three symphonies published). Between 1773 and 1788, the Concert Spirituel often presented his works and virtuosos such as Capron, Devienne, Pierre Leduc and Giornovichi played them.
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In his review of the Carnegie Hall performance, Stabler opined that the Oregon Symphony's program (which he described as one of "rage, brutality and fleeting beauty that required the utmost precision and ferocity from the musicians") focused more on playing, while the programs by other orchestras drew attention to the music. Stabler wrote: "Everyone knows orchestras are fighting to survive, but on this night, the Oregon Symphony breathed long and deep of triumph." In a separate article summarizing reviews by New York critics, Stabler called the Symphony a "virtuosos band" that "now plays with more acute rhythmic precision, more clarity, more informed style ... and more extreme dynamics and tempos". James Bash of Oregon Music News wrote a positive review of the New York performance, describing it as more enhanced, dramatic and intense than the Portland concerts, partly because of the venue's superior acoustics.
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USA - Masters of Indian Music Festival, Young Music Wizards of India, Asia Society, Ali Akbar Khan Festival, Basant Bahar Festival, MITHAS, Learnquest Music Festival. UK - WOMAD (Reading), Bath International Music festival, MilapFest, Commonwealth Games Festival, City of London Festival, Asian Music Festival, Rhythm Sticks Festival, Greenwich & Docklands Festival, Darbar Festival, Cardiff Jazz Festival, BBC Music Live Festival (Scotland). EUROPE - Woodstock Festival (Poland), Voices of the World Festival (Denmark), Sangam Indian Music Festival (Germany), Museum Rietberg (Switzerland), Festival Musicale del Mediterraneo (Italy), Theatre de la Ville (France), Night of the Virtuosos Festival (Reunion Islands), Amrita Sher-Gil Cultural Centre, University of Esztergom (Hungary), The Music Academy, Zadar Puppet Theatre, Croatian National Theatre (Croatia), Madlenianum Opera and Theatre (Serbia). ASIA - Global Fusion Festival (Dubai), Vrindavan Festival (Hong Kong), Bangkok International Music Festival (Thailand), Victoria Arts Hall (Singapore), Tokyo Music festival, Phoenix Music Festival (Japan).
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With no consumer goods or raw materials to offer to the global economy, Pottsylvania's ruling clique decides the only way it can thrive is to invade other countries, in secret. To do so, Fearless Leader commissions a device that shoots "goof gas," a substance that renders its victims hopelessly stupid and silly: doctors and physicists become mindless manchildren, opera virtuosos turn into rock and roll singers, and a member of Fearless Leader's inner circle who served as a test case became dumb enough to insult Fearless Leader to his face. In McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Rocky and Bullwinkle encounter Peter Peachfuzz, who is behaving even more erratically than usual. After some effort, Peachfuzz is able to explain the national crisis: Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale have been squirting goof gas into institutions of higher education and culture across the United States.
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Shane Gaalaas (born August 8, 1967) is a Canadian-born drummer, multi- instrumentalist and songwriter best known for his long running affiliation with Japanese rock superstars B'z, whom he joined in 2002, and his extensive work with guitar virtuosos Michael Schenker, Yngwie Malmsteen, Uli Jon Roth, Vinnie Moore, and Jeff Kollman. Gaalaas is a founding member of progressive rock trio Cosmosquad and extreme metal band Diesel Machine and currently the drummer for all-Canadian all-star cover band Toque featuring Todd Kerns and Brent Fitz of Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators fame and guitarist Cory Churko. He has released several albums as a solo artist and continues to work as a session musician. Gaalaas is a graduate of Grant MacEwan Music College in Edmonton, Alberta and Percussion Institute of Technology in Hollywood, CA; he currently resides in the Los Angeles area.
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Thompson also praised the "subtle but beautiful performances by the film's cast", singling out Guy Pearce who is "particularly stellar" at creating the "complex and sympathetic" character of Keith. While pointing out that the film is as "predictable as melodrama comes", Thompson also believes the film "shines ... in the smaller moments". Thompson notes, "As Keith and Sophie explore their taboo relationship, the film can easily fall into the trap of cliché, but it skirts the edges thanks to a realism and honesty framed through fully formed characters and sequences that are quiet but speak volumes, building on relationships and emotion rather than story." Thompson concludes that despite the film's weaknesses—particularly the last act crisis that "feels forced"—the finer moments of Breathe In make up for the flaws, and that Doremus and company are "fast becoming filmmaking virtuosos".
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He painted landscapes, especially topographical, with skill, and also still life. Sir William Sanderson, in his Graphice (1658), spoke of "Streter, who indeed is a compleat Master therein, as also in other Arts of Etching, Graving, and his works of Architecture and Perspective, not a line but is true to the Rules of Art and Symmetry". In 1664 both Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn mentioned, and the latter described, "Mr. Thomas Povey's elegant house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where the perspective in his court, painted by Streeter, is indeede excellent, with the vases in imitation of porphyrie and fountains". Pepys, in 1669, wrote that he "went to Mr. Streater, the famous history-painter, where I found Dr. Wren and other virtuosos looking upon the paintings he is making of the new theatre at Oxford", and described Streater as "a very civil little man and lame, but lives very handsomely".
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The task of whoever wants to draw a true, deeply sincere portrait of a disappeared man is made difficult. In doubt, it suffices to allow one's heart to speak and to simply say what one knows; age and experience having taught us to judge the expression of our feelings. Those who have not heard him can not imagine the male sonority combined with a nobility of style of a rare dignity he had. His charm without concession to facility, his astounding technique, always ready and always at ease, his sovereign authority in the playing style as well in the attitude, as far from the morgue as the false modesty; in short, these qualities so diverse, united in such right proportions, made him an inevitable choice among all the virtuosos of all countries for the ensembles of Enesco, Kreisler, Cortot, Thibaud, Casals, Francescatti, or Saint-Saens, Debussy, d'Indy and so many others.
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The RCA Gold Seal mid- priced label was launched in 1975 and initially consisted mainly of reissues of "Living Stereo" recordings from the late 1950s and 1960s previously issued on the Red Seal label. Beginning in the 1980s, many older monophonic Red Seal recordings from the 78 RPM and early LP era were reissued on the Gold Seal label. Included were recordings by "Golden Age" opera stars such as Enrico Caruso, Nellie Melba, Amelita Galli-Curci, Ezio Pinza and Rosa Ponselle, as well as renowned virtuosos like Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz and Wanda Landowska. In the compact disc era, the RCA Victor Gold Seal mid-priced label superseded the RCA Victrola label for reissuing historic Red Seal recordings; The Victrola label now issued budget-priced stereo recordings on CD and cassette of the standard classical repertoire drawn from former Red Seal issues.
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As with balli, intermedi developed during the Renaissance period, were often performed as a form of entertainment in their own right and sometimes as what has been described as a 'play within a play'. Their plot was often lightweight, and some had no plot but were used as a way of marking a special occasion, paying tribute to someone, not noting an historic event. By the mid-18th century, due to French influence, in some countries intermedi had become a form of ballet used to entertain audiences while sets were being changed between the acts of an opera. Many of the singers were Italian and included those who were visiting Lisbon under contract or had moved there permanently, and others who were listed as "Virtuosi della Cappella Reale" (Virtuosos of the Royal Chapel) meaning members of the Patriarchal household including, potentially, staff and students from the Seminary.
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He brought the most-sought-after vocal style into violin, and his renditions exhibit knowledge of lyrical content of the compositions. Lalgudi actively and scientifically learned to self-critique his performances and dutifully wrote detailed reviews after each concert, a habit encouraged by his father and guru. He was loath to experiment on stage in his solo concerts and almost always planned to the last detail, leading a certain critic to tout them as being intellectual rather than emotional in spirit, but Lalgudi's spontaneity and innate musical genius were often seen when he accompanied leading vocalists. He was always in great demand for accompanying vocalists, and has accompanied great vocal virtuosos as Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, M. D. Ramanathan, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, G. N. Balasubramaniam, Madurai Mani Iyer, Voleti Venkateswarulu, Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, K. V. Narayanaswamy, Maharajapuram Santhanam, D. K. Jayaraman, M.Balamuralikrishna, T. V. Sankaranarayanan, T. N. Seshagopalan and flute maestro N. Ramani.
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Bassist John Lindberg dedicated his 1997 album Offers for Luminosity to Izenzon. In his book The Freedom Principle, John Litweiler praised Izenzon's playing: > David Izenzon brought a major advance in jazz bass playing and in the > structure of the jazz ensemble... Traditionally the bass's role in jazz had > been to ground the ensemble pulse... But Izenzon was as likely to provide > melodic line as pulse, avoiding direct rhythmic reference, contradicting his > partners' tempos, and playing arco at least as often as he played pizzicato. > The genius of Izenzon's music is that he did not become an independent voice > in [Coleman's] trio; his fine sensitivity created ensemble tension so that > in a discursive performance... Izenzon becomes a source of unity... After > the self-dramatizing of Mingus and LaFaro, it's a paradox that Izenzon, the > most active of bass virtuosos, sounds so completely effortless. You're not > overwhelmed at his speed; his music flows so naturally and lyrically, > without excess, that even his blurring of pitch does not seem extreme.
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Subsequently, Ehrenfels made a public appeal to "manly Aryan men" who had proved themselves to be both "social winners" and "studs" to disregard monogamy and marriage, and to start impregnating as many women as possible to give the "white race" a genetic edge in the coming war against the "Yellow Peril". Before the Russian-Japanese war, it has been the Chinese who had personified the Asian threat to Ehrenfels; after the war, the Asian enemy of the future was the Japanese. In his essays in 1907-1908, Ehrenfels wrote that the Chinese lacked "all potentialities...determination, initiative, productivity, invention and organizational talent". While the Chinese were now a listless mass of allegedly mindless Asians, Ehrenfels wrote that Japan was "a first-rate military power", and should the Japanese conquer the Chinese, the Japanese would engage in selective breeding to create a race of "healthy, sly, cunning coolies, virtuosos of reproduction" in China.
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The Villalobos Brothers have been acclaimed as violin virtuosos and one of the leading ensembles of world music. Critical comments on The Villalobos Brothers include: Following a November 12, 2006 concert at Kaufman Center's Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, The Forward noted that "...they played with exuberant intensity for the appreciative audience...Ernesto returned his attention to his violin, his long, dark hair flying through the air as his bow raced across the strings....With their heads bowed as if in prayer, their fingers jumping and feet tapping, they weren't just playing music, they were living it..." In 2009, their music was described as "High Octane Mexican Fiddling" by The New Victory Theater. In 2007, they received the Tepeyac Association of New York's "Leaders of the Future Excellence Award" and were congratulated by United States Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Sabini, Robert Menendez, Congressman Joseph Crowley, Governor Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and other American politicians.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer by Josef Kriehuber, 1847 Throughout his life Mendelssohn was wary of the more radical musical developments undertaken by some of his contemporaries. He was generally on friendly, if sometimes somewhat cool, terms with Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, and Giacomo Meyerbeer, but in his letters expresses his frank disapproval of their works, for example writing of Liszt that his compositions were "inferior to his playing, and […] only calculated for virtuosos"; of Berlioz's overture Les francs-juges "[T]he orchestration is such a frightful muddle [...] that one ought to wash one's hands after handling one of his scores"; and of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable "I consider it ignoble", calling its villain Bertram "a poor devil". When his friend the composer Ferdinand Hiller suggested in conversation to Mendelssohn that he looked rather like Meyerbeer – they were actually distant cousins, both descendants of Rabbi Moses Isserles – Mendelssohn was so upset that he immediately went to get a haircut to differentiate himself. In particular, Mendelssohn seems to have regarded Paris and its music with the greatest of suspicion and an almost puritanical distaste.
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After conducting tours and open-air shows in Europe and the United States, in 1995 he played in Latin America for the first time. 1995–97 saw Vollenweider playing a series of shows in remarkable locations: a tour of Polish castles, a show with Italian singer/songwriter Zucchero at the 2500 m high location (at -8° Celsius) of Brunico in the Southern Alps, and in a giant volcanic cave at Lanzarote's Festival Musica Visual. In 1998, Vollenweider began the recording of Kryptos, a work for symphonic orchestras and guest virtuosos from all over the world. He initiated a symphonic live project which he called Wolkenstein. In 1999, he returned to free improvisation and intimate musical dialogues with his album COSMOPOLY He invited friends, including American vocal acrobat Bobby McFerrin, Brazilian cult poet and singer Milton Nascimento, South-African ethno-jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, the 74-year-old Armenian duduk legend Djivan Gasparyan, Galician bag-pipe and whistle virtuoso Carlos Núñez Muñoz, the American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, and American blues-trombone master Ray Anderson, from all over the globe to create “world music”.
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St. John Lateran's pipe organ The Heptavium/Live Earth event was inaugurated by Paul Cardinal Poupard, who explained the scope and meaning of the evening, a prelude to the Cathedralia Project, an endeavour of original sacred music between Rome and the USA, conceived and composed by D'Alessandra and planned for the next decade. A reading of a page from St. Augustine's "City of God" followed, mentioning the sacred aspect of earthly nature, concluded by an intervention on behalf of the Live Earth event by acclaimed film producer Lawrence Bender. The concert was performed exclusively in two different locations of the Cathedral of Rome: before its Holy Door, and inside the Cathedral, in the central nave. During the first part of the concert, various works for string quartet and grand piano composed by M° Michael D'Alessandra were performed by the Bernini Quartet, a string ensemble of virtuosos from Rome, and D'Alessandra, a piano virtuoso and organist himself; the performance was shown inside the Church through HD screens placed aside the Church's canopy.
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Grey is the nephew of jazz guitarist John McLaughlin and carries endorsements with Fodera, Aguilar, DR Strings, Yamaha, Earthquaker Devices, TC Electronic, Keith McMillan, G&H; Plugs, CME Keyboards and GruvGear. His 4-string and 6-string Signature Monarch basses were designed and crafted by Fodera, a Brooklyn based, handcrafted guitar company. Grey's passion for music and natural born talent for teaching led him to develop the Tony Grey Bass Academy, a leading, world-class online educational platform for students interested in a structured and comprehensive music education, where students are encouraged to study at their own pace. The Academy was initially intended to be a companion for his instructional book, Tony Grey Bass Academy; however, the Academy exceeded its initial vision and has been designed to take players from the beginning of their journey through music, all the way to the very end and beyond, learning music creatively rather than mechanically—a Philosophy developed by Grey, which now leads thousands of students to becoming the next generation of bass virtuosos.
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Immediately after the cessation of hostilities in Bydgoszcz, in February 1945, the activities of the Municipal Conservatoire resumed in the pre-war building at Gdańska Street N°71 and in the former German Conservatory of Music at Gdańska Street 54. In 1946, with the monopoly of instruction given to state schools, private music institutions closed down. The Municipal Conservatory of Music was transformed into a cooperative of musicians under the name Pomeranian Medium and Lower Musical School in Bydgoszcz, with an organization not so much changed from the pre-war structure. In 1946-1947 the school trained 60 students, and among the teachers were musicians-virtuosos like composer Florian Dabrowski, Jerzy Jasieński, Felicja Krysiewicz, Edmund Rezler, Marta Suchecka, Maria Wasiak, Halina Wojciechowska, Zdzisława Wojciechowska and others. In 1947, the institution was divided into two distinct schools: the lower Music School (director Maria Tołłoczko) and the Secondary School of Music (director Irena Jahnke). The former took the name of State Primary School of Music in 1952, the latter was renamed State Secondary School of Music.
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The music performances include a variety of different genres, including jazz, klezmer, zarzuela, tango, classical,Las orquestas están cambiando, ClarínConcierto de música clásica , Instituto Italiano de Cultura chamber music,Sonidos entre la vida y la muerte, ClarínBemoles: Viaje a Schubert, Clarínfolk music, rock, religious music, country,Temporada musical del templo Amijai, La Nación, 23 March 2006 and ópera.Las propuestas del off de la ópera, El Día The synagogue was gifted a 19th-century Steinway piano by an anonymous patron which has now become one of its most active musical assets. They have welcomed performances by Darío Volonté, Daniel Barenboim, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Camerata Bariloche, Pinchas Zukerman,Cuando el virtuosismo no es excesivo, Página 12, 14 August 2008 the Russian National Orchestra, the Harlem Opera Theater, the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Hesse, la Kammerphilarmonie de Frankfurt, Martha Argerich,Amijai Revista Cantabile, página 226 Sandra Mihanovich, Bruno Gelber,Homenaje a la trayectoria artística de Bruno Gelber, Diario de Cultura, April 2014 Atilio Stampone, Hermeto Pascoal, Chango Spasiuk, Jaime Torres, Pedro Aznar, among others. The 2008 series «Grandes Virtuosos del Violín» was highlighted as the most significant event of the year by Argentinean Association of Music Critics.
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In guitar playing (apart from classical guitar) legato is used interchangeably as a label for both musical articulation and a particular application of technique—playing musical phrases using the left hand to play the notes—using techniques such as glissando, string bending, hammer-ons and pull-offs instead of picking to sound the notes. The fact that the same finger is both setting the string vibrating and setting the pitch leads to smoother transitions between notes than when one hand is used to mark pitch while the other strikes the string. Legato technique to provide legato articulation on electric guitar generally requires playing notes that are close and on the same string, following the first note with others that are played by hammer-ons and pull-offs. Some guitar virtuosos (notably Allan Holdsworth, Shawn Lane and Brett Garsed) developed their legato technique to the extent that they could perform extremely complex passages involving any permutation of notes on a string at extreme tempos, and particularly in the case of Holdsworth, tend to eschew pull-offs entirely for what some feel is a detrimental effect on guitar tone as the string is pulled slightly sideways.
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