Search results for "Pianist" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), born Nathaniel Adams Coles, was a popular American jazz singer-songwriter and pianist. ...
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  • he moved in 1894. There he worked as a pianist in the Maple Leaf and Black ... Ragtime is also recognized as a precursor to jazz, with such as pianist ...
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  • Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was the foremost American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader ...
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  • Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856), a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic composers of the first ...
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  • Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a twentieth-century French composer and pianist, known especially for the subtlety ...
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  • Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil ...
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  • the piano with his mother, a talented pianist. He started the cello at ... *"Mstislav Rostropovich: Conductor, Pianist and Outstanding Cellist ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Bebop or bop is a style of jazz that evolved in the 1940s and is notable for its extremely quick tempo and improvisation ...
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  • Still married Verna Arvey, a journalist and concert pianist, in 1939. They remained together until he died of heart failure in Los Angeles, California ...
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  • lessons from Teresa Carreño, a Venezuelan pianist. His family moved to Paris ... shifted his focus from composer to concert pianist. He was appointed the first ...
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  • David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one ...
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  • Marie carried on an affair with virtuoso pianist and composer Franz Liszt ... acquaintance. Sand was living with the pianist and composer Frédéric ...
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  • Paris) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher ... as a performer (violinist, conductor & pianist)(updated July 2005)] ...
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  • on the instrument. The Japanese American jazz pianist Glenn Horiuchi played shamisen in his performances and recordings. ==Notes== ...
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  • 1893 – January 29, 1980), was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced ...
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  • Brahms with cellist Emanuel Feuermann and pianist Arthur Rubinstein as well ... Gershwin's Three Preludes with pianist Brooks Smith; and a 1970 ...
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  • her job, but the same injury would totally ruin a pianist. ===Compensation prior to statutory law=== Prior to the statutory scheme of the workers ...
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  • from a piano roll without the need for a pianist. Also in the nineteenth ... keys and avoid visual disorientation in a pianist unfamiliar with the extended ...
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  • Theatre conducted by Adolf Cech with the Czech pianist Karel Slavkovsky as soloist. As Dvořák wrote: "I see I am unable to write a Concerto for ...
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  • Parkway label, on a session for Chess backing pianist Eddie Ware, and occasionally played second guitar on early sessions with Muddy Waters. ...
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