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Rozsa, Miklos
... as Grabner's assistant but at the suggestion of the French organist and composer Marcel Dupré, moved to Paris in this year. ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Tue 12th Jun 07
Glass, Philip
... a winner in the BMI Foundation's BMI Student Composer Awards, one of the most prestigious international prizes for young composers. 1960 ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Sun 08th Apr 07
Chen Yi
... and Mario Davidovsky at Columbia University, earning a DMA with distinction. Her husband is the composer Zhou Long. As of this ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Tue 29th May 07
Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit
... séjour militaire put an end for some years to his attempts as composer. 1819 - He produced another opera, Le testament ...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Wed 25th Jul 07
Baum, Lyman Frank (L. Frank Baum)
... Baum and Denslow teamed up with composer Paul Tietjens and director Julian Mitchell to produce a musical stage version of the ...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Tue 05th Dec 06
Gorme, Eydie (orig. Edith Gormezano)
... Burnett Show and The Nanny. 1986 - Gormé and Lawrence had two sons, David, who is a composer, and Michael, who ...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Tue 12th Jun 07
Szell, George
... grew up in Vienna. He was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. He is remembered today for his long and successful ...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Mon 28th May 07
Rauschenberg, Milton (Rauschenberg, Robert)
... and later as a technical director. He also produced theatrical pieces in collaboration with composer John Cage. 1962 - He borrowed ...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Mon 12th Mar 07
Tesh, John
... Island, New York. He went virtually unrecognized as a musician and composer, instead enjoying television success as the co-host of the ...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Mon 09th Apr 07
Renoir, Pierre Auguste
... He met the composer, Richard Wagner, at his home in Palermo, Sicily. Renoir painted Wagner's portrait in just thirty-five minutes. 1883 ...
[ 27% ] Last updated: Fri 06th Apr 07
Loewe, Frederick
1901 - Born on June 10th in Berlin, Germany. German-born American composer and collaborator with Alan Jay Lerner on a series ...
[ 27% ] Last updated: Sat 07th Apr 07
Autry, Orvon Gene
1907 - Born on September 29th in Tioga, Texas. American performer. 1926 - Best known as the "Singing Cowboy," Autry got...
[ 27% ] Last updated: Thu 26th Jul 07
Lorre, Peter (orig. Laszlo Loewenstein)
... the infamous musical Happy End by Brecht and composer Kurt Weill. 1931 – He became famous when Fritz Lang cast him ...
[ 27% ] Last updated: Sat 14th Apr 07
Paderewski, Ignace Jan (Ignacy)
... 18th in Kurylówka, Podolia province in Russian Poland. Polish pianist, composer, and statesman, who was prime minister of Poland. 1872-1878 - ...
[ 27% ] Last updated: Wed 04th Jul 07
Downs, Hugh Malcolm
... news TV show 20/20, a primetime news magazine program, until his retirement in 1999. 1990 - A published composer himself, Downs ...
[ 27% ] Last updated: Wed 28th Jan 09
Timothy James Curry (Tim Curry)
... in Grappenhall, Cheshire, England. He is an English actor, singer and composer. 1965 - When he was 19, he began his ...
[ 27% ] Last updated: Thu 05th Apr 07
Szymanowski, Karol Maciej
... 6th in Timoshovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire. He was the foremost Polish composer of the early 20th century. 1901-1904 - Szymanowski began ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Fri 25th Dec 09
Bloch, Ernest
... Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. He was a Swiss-born American composer. 1910 - Early works, including his opera Macbeth show the influence ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Sun 01st Apr 07
Garcia, Andy (orig. Andres Arturo Garci-Menendez)
1956 – He was an American actor born on the 12th day of April this year in Havana, Cuba. He was raised as a Cathol...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Thu 31st May 07
Elfman, Daniel Robert (Elfman, Danny)
... known for his work in collaboration with director Tim Burton, composer Danny Elfman created one of the most distinctive bodies of ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Wed 28th Feb 07
Victor August Herbert (Herbert, Victor)
... the 1st of February in Dublin, England. He was a popular composer of light opera, and an accomplished cellist and conductor. ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Wed 02nd May 07
Graham, Martha
... Shawn). There she danced several important roles, including Shawn's Xochtil in 1920. She met the composer Louis Horst. 1923 – She ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Wed 13th Jun 07
Krzysztof Penderecki (Penderecki-Krzysztof)
... - He received the Music Award of the City of Duisburg. In January, he received the Cannes Classical Award as "Living ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Sun 03rd Jan 10
Boyce, William
... music and as an organist and musical editor. 1736 - He became composer to the Chapel Royal, and many of his ...
[ 25% ] Last updated: Thu 10th May 07
Joachim, Joseph
... today's Burgenland area of Austria. He was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. He is regarded as one of the ...
[ 25% ] Last updated: Mon 11th Jun 07
Waymon, Eunice Kathleen (Nina Simone, High Priestess of Soul)
... singer; a jazz singer; a pianist; an arranger and a composer, Nina Simone is a great artist who defies easy classification. ...
[ 25% ] Last updated: Wed 28th Feb 07
McCormack, John
... Pius XI. - He was also honoured by composer Victor Herbert to create the role of Lieutenant Paul Merrill in his ...
[ 24% ] Last updated: Mon 02nd Apr 07
Joseph Lane (Lane, Nathan)
... for and starred in the Broadway debut of the composer's The Frogs at Lincoln Center. He also sang a song written ...
[ 24% ] Last updated: Fri 09th Mar 07
Abdulaziz
... He was interested in literature and was also a classical music composer. Some of his compositions have been collected in the ...
[ 23% ] Last updated: Tue 16th Jan 07
Carmichael, Hoagland Howard (Hoagy)
1899 - Born on November 22nd in Bloomingon, Indiana. Award-winning songwriter, composer, pianist, actor and singer. 1919 - Carmichael booked the ...
[ 22% ] Last updated: Sat 15th Sep 07
