Effie F. Kamman

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Effie F. Kamman (1868–1933) was an American composer, pianist, music teacher, and vaudeville performer. She was known for composing “The Dance of the Brownies” (1893), a popular tune inspired by the children’s books by Palmer Cox. Early life Effie F. Kamman was from Detroit, the daughter of Frederick Kamman and Minerva A. Howlett Kamman. Her father was a butcher. Career Kamman was a music teacher in Detroit, who also gained notice as a performer in vaudeville. She toured in several shows, including The Fencing Master (1894), Run on the Bank (1895), The Governors (1897), Hunting for Hawkins (1901), and On the Stroke of 12 (1903). She sang soprano parts, but also sometimes toured as a “lady baritone” novelty singing act. She was also the music and art editor for the newspaper Detroit Journal. Later in her career, she played piano on radio, and in theatres during silent films. Published works by Kamman included *“The Dance of the Brownies” (1893) *“The American Two-Step” (1895) *“Dance of the White Rats” (1901) *“Hunting for Hawkins” (1901) *“I Love You Yet” (1903) *“Skirmish” (1903), *“What’s Your Hurry?” (1922) *“The Old Fashioned Love of the Days Long Ago” (1928) *“In Twilight Land

Efraín Amaya

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Efraín Amaya (born 1959 Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan-born American composer. Biography Amaya studied piano and composition at Indiana University until 1985 and orchestral conducting at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University until 1988. He was a piano student of Shigeo Neriki, Zadel Skolovsky and Harriet Serr, a composition student of John Eaton, Juan Orrego-Salas, Frederick Fox, Ellsworth Milburn, Daniel Börtz and Ib Nørholm, and learned orchestral conducting from Samuel Jones, Uri Mayer and Benjamin Zander. During his studies, he directed the Campanile Orchestra at Rice University from 1985 to 1988. After his return to Venezuela, he was music director of the youth symphony orchestra Núcleo La Rinconada from 1989 to 1992 and conducted various other Venezuelan orchestras. From 1996 to 2002 he was music director and conductor of the Westmoreland Youth Symphony Orchestra and from 2000 to 2006 of the Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestra, and he also worked as a guest conductor with other orchestras. He teaches on the School Music faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, is music director and conductor of the Greensburg America Opera, and of The Point Chamber Orchestra, wh

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