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Buck Warnick

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Henry Clay Warnick, Jr., also known as Buck Warnick, Clay Warnick, and H. Clay Warnick, (born, December 14, 1915, Tacoma, Washington — died February 8, 1995, West Orange, New Jersey) He had an active career on Broadway from 1942 through 1963, and was also a prolific composer of jingles for advertisements on radio and television with the Young and Rubicam (Y & R) agency. His undergraduate education was from Colgate University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Epsilon. He was musical director of Your Show of Shows from 1950 through 1954. He also served as musical director or arranger for numerous television programs including Caesar’s Hour, The United States Steel Hour, and Your Hit Parade. With Y & R, Warnick produced music for more than 10,000 spots on radio and television. Some of his more famous jingles include “The Dogs Kids Love to Bite” for Armour Hot Dogs. and “Should a gentleman offer a tiparillo to a lady?” for Tiparillo Cigars. The latter song won Warnick a Clio Award in 1974. His best known song is “Number One To The Sun” which he composed for Eastern Airlines. That song was performed and recorded by the New York Philharmonic. References External links *Bu

Bumzu

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Kye Beom-ju (, born November 8, 1991), better known by the stage name Bumzu (), is a South Korean record producer, songwriter and singer. He signed to Pledis Entertainment early in his career, and has been co-CEO of the Prismfilter Music Group since 2016. He is best known for his work with Pledis Entertainment labelmates NU’EST and Seventeen, and has amassed credits working with other South Korean artists including Shinee, Fromis 9, NCT 127, TWS, and BTS’s Jin. In 2025, he also became a member of The Recording Academy. Biography and career Bumzu was born in Seoul, South Korea, on November 8, 1991. He learned the violin as a child, and by the age of high school, he became active in Hongdae’s underground music scene. His first mainstream work was composing for H.O.T’s Jang Woo-hyuk’s “Don’t Go, Go Away” in 2011. He then participated in the singing competition show Superstar K 4 at the age of 22, which has been noted as his big break. Following the show, he began producing songs for Pledis artists including After School and NU’EST, and has produced songs alongside Woozi for Seventeen since their debut song “Adore U”. In 2024, Bumzu started producing music for Pledis’ new group TWS und

Burr Van Nostrand

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Burr Van Nostrand (born 1945) is an American classical composer and cellist. He is known for his avant-garde works which use aleatory and graphic notation and were composed from the 1960s through the 1980s. Van Nostrand was born in Los Angeles and began composing while still in high school in San Diego. He studied cello at Yale with Aldo Parisot and composition at the New England Conservatory under Robert Cogan. After his graduation from the NEC with a Masters in Music in 1971, he spent four years in the Netherlands at the Gaudeamus Foundation where several of his works were premiered. He stopped composing in the late 1980s but remained active as a cellist until 2000. There was renewed interest in his music following a concert of his early works at the New England Conservatory in 2012 and the release of a CD the following year containing his 1969 Voyage in a White Building I and two other works from that period. Life and career Van Nostrand was born in Los Angeles, California. Both his parents were visual artists. He grew up in San Diego where he studied painting, piano, and cello and later composition with John Glasier and Howard Brubeck. He also became acquainted with the music a

Burrill Phillips

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Leroy Burrill Phillips (November 9, 1907 – June 22, 1988) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. Biography Phillips was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied at the College of Music at the University of Denver with Edwin Stringham and at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. On September 17, 1928, he married Alberta Corinne Mayfield (1907–1979) who wrote many of his librettos. In 1931 the couple had a daughter who, under the stage name Ann Todd, became a child actress in films. She continued acting into her early twenties, but left the entertainment industry in 1954 and died in 2020. A second child, son Stephen, was born in 1937. He died in 1986, two years before his father. Phillips’s first important work was Selections from McGuffey’s Reader, for orchestra, based on poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Immediately successful, the work established his reputation as a composer with a “consciously American style”. By the 1940s he had turned to a more astringent and expressive idiom. In 1960, his String Quartet No. 2 was premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. by the Paganini Qua

Bushra El-Turk

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Bushra El-Turk (born 1982 in London, UK) is a British composer and contemporary music educator of Lebanese parents. Named by the BBC as “one of the most inspiring 100 Women of today”, she has written numerous compositions for live concerts, dance, theatre and multi-media performances, performed and broadcast on radio and television by prestigious musicians in various countries of Europe and the Middle East. Life and career El-Turk studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for five years. In 2017, she graduated with a PhD in Musical Composition at the University of Birmingham, having been supervised by Michael Zev Gordon, with her thesis focused on the relation of Middle-Eastern and Western classical music. Up to 2023, her more than 60 musical works include a wide variety of styles and influences. Among others, she has composed vocal music for soloists and choirs, accompanied by piano, non-western musical ensembles or symphony orchestra. Her works often integrate musical traditions and musicians from different cultural backgrounds. They have been performed in live performances, film scores and programmes on radio and TV, and often include elements of dance, thea

Butterfinger (Canadian band)

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Butterfinger was a Saskatchewan-based Canadian alternative rock band which released one independently recorded studio album. Their song Breathe won several awards including the national songwriting competition in conjunction with Canadian Music Week in 2001. Its success inspired the band to work on a full-length album, directed by Producer, Mixer, and Engineer Jared Kuemper. Butterfinger was nominated for “Outstanding Rock Recording” at the Western Canadian Music Awards in 2003. In November 2003, Butterfinger was awarded a VideoFACT grant to shoot a music video for the song Do You Feel?. They were one of only 40 to receive the grant out of the 284 submissions. The video was produced by a Toronto film company called Firewatch Films. The band has not released any new music since 2004 (although it played the half-time show at the 2017 Saskatchewan Rush home opener game). Sanche left the music industry. Tupper has played in several bands including Hung Jury, Lisa Moen, and Tyler Lewis. Tyler Penny formed the band Penny Reign. Dean Person has had success as a singer/songwriter/guitarist. Members *Dean Person - Lead Guitar, Vocals *Tyler Penny - Lead Vocals, Guitar *John Sanche - Bass, V