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H. Owen Reed

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Herbert Owen Reed (June 17, 1910 – January 6, 2014) was an American composer, conductor, and author. Early life and education Reed was raised in rural Odessa, Missouri, where his first exposure to music was his father’s playing of the old-time fiddle, accompanied by his mother at the piano. In addition to his childhood with musically-inclined parents, he was also attracted to the popular piano music of the 1920s, such as the novelty piano tunes of Zez Confrey, and his family’s player piano, which played popular tunes. He studied piano with Odessa’s only piano teacher, Mrs. Felts, who attempted to interest him in the music of Bach and Beethoven. In 1937 he enrolled at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studied composition with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers, conducting with Paul White, musicology with Howard Gleason, and music theory with Allen I. McHose. He received a Ph.D. in composition in 1939. In 1942, at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, Massachusetts, he studied composition with Bohuslav Martinů, and contemporary music with Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and Stanley Chappel. In the summer of 1947, he studied composition with Roy Harris at

Hoàng Vân (composer)

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Lê Văn Ngọ, (24 July 1930, Hanoi – 4 February 2018) known as Hoàng Vân, is a Vietnamese songwriter and composer. He was a recipient of the Hồ Chí Minh Prize in 2000. Life Born on 24 July 1930 in Hanoi, Ngọ was born into a Confucian family. Both his grandfather and father were Confucian scholars. He is best known as a composer of the two Indochina wars. He was a soldier in Dien Bien Phu before being sent to train in European classical music at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the end of the war. After his return to Vietnam, he was the conductor of the Radio Orchestra (Voice of Vietnam), as well as lecturing at the composition faculty of the Ha Noi Conservatory of Music (now the Vietnam National Academy of Music) until 1989. He was also a member of the Vietnam Musicians Association and worked there until 1996. Hoàng Vân was known by the public through his songs, but he also composed symphonies (notably Thành Đồng Tổ quốc, The Bronze Citadel of my Fatherland), in 1960), choirs, instrumental ensemble, music for films, and plays. Works Songs Hoàng Vân is one of the most famous composers of Vietnamese songs from the 1960s, and, as of the early 21st century, his songs remai

Holger Gilbert-Jespersen

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Holger Gilbert-Jespersen (22 September 1890 – 30 July 1975) was a Danish flutist, orchestral musician and academic flute teacher. In 1926, Carl Nielsen’s Flute Concerto was written for, dedicated to, and first performed by Gilbert-Jespersen in Paris. He was a member of the Royal Danish Orchestra from 1927 to 1956 as well as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music from 1927 to 1962, where he trained generations of flutists. Biography Holger Gilbert-Jespersen was born on 22 September 1890 in Ordrup, Denmark, the son of the physician Gilbert Lauri Jespersen (1851–1929) and the artist Anne Marie Schack Bruun (1849–1925). Gilbert-Jespersen studied the flute from 1908 to 1911 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. His primary instructor was Frederik Storm of the Royal Danish Orchestra. After a few years of employment in a casino orchestra he went to London, where he studied with Albert Fransella. From 1913 to 1914, Gilbert-Jespersen was in Paris, studying flute with Adolphe Hennebains, the principal flute of the Grand Opéra in Paris, and was employed occasionally in the opera orchestra. When World War I broke out in 1914, he returned to Denmark to enter the security force. Career

Holger Simon Paulli

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Holger Simon Paulli (22 February 181023 December 1891) was a Danish conductor and composer. Paulli composed an opera, thirteen ballets, an overture, and pieces for violin and lieder. Biography Paulli was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a student of violinist and composer Claus Schall and of classical composer Frederik Thorkildsen Wexschall. During 1839–41, he undertook a study trip abroad to Germany, Austria, Italy, France and England. In 1849 he also became concertmaster. He joined the Royal Danish Orchestra and became its conductor in 1864, a position he filled for 20 years until the end of the 1882–1883 season. At the same time, he also conducted the orchestra of the Cecilia Association (Cæciliaforeningen). With his performances of Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg he contributed greatly to the spread of Richard Wagner’s work in Denmark. Paulli was also a member of the management of the Copenhagen Conservatory from 1866 and was chairman of the Chamber Music Association during 1868–91. He conducted the Royal Danish Orchestra in the world premiere of Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, in the Casino Concert Hall in Copenhagen on 3 April 1869. The soloist was N

Holly Butler

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Holly Gaye Butler is an American actress, singer/songwriter, dancer and former aerobics instructor who appeared in the :20 Minute Workout Television Show’s first season (1983). Crime Story, Reasonable Doubts, In Living Color, Mike Hammer, Private Eye, Rags to Riches, Moloney and A Peaceable Kingdom. Holly had a starring role in the short lived teen soap opera Tribes which aired on the Fox network in 1990. Holly toured the U.S. throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s as Universal Studios Hollywood’s premier Marilyn Monroe impersonator and appeared in the film Netherworld appearing as Marilyn Monroe. As a songwriter, Holly had a country single, “What a Shame” recorded by Rebecca Lynn Howard in 2003. References

Holly Harrison

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Holly Phillippa Harrison (born 1988) is an Australian composer based in Western Sydney. Early life and education Harrison grew up in the Hawkesbury region West of Sydney. She was awarded a music scholarship to attend St Paul’s Grammar School for trumpet performance. During high school she began playing drum kit, performing with rock, punk and post-rock bands. Harrison graduated from Western Sydney University School of Music with a Bachelor of Music, First Class Honours, and was awarded the University Medal. She then went on to complete a Doctorate of Creative Arts in composition at Western Sydney University. Career Harrison’s music is frequently performed across Australia and internationally. In Australia she has worked with leading orchestras including Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, as well as chamber ensembles including Ensemble Offspring, Omega Ensemble, and Australian String Quartet. Internationally, she has collaborated with ensembles including Eighth Blackbird, Alarm Will Sound, Goldmund Quartett, Orkest de Ereprijs. In 2017, Harrison’s Lobster Tale

Homayoun Reza Atardi

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Homayoun Reza Atardi (25 July 1970 – 3 August 2020) was an Iranian musician, composer, and film and television producer. Biography He was born in Mashhad in 1970. In the field of cinema, he received his bachelor’s degree in editing and began his musical activities in 1987. Atardi also worked in the field of film and television production and received a special jury award at the 28th Fajr International Film Festival for his production of the film “Being Time” (Life). He died in Tehran at age 50 from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran. Work Among the works of Homayoun Reza Atardi, the following can be mentioned: Soundtracks Movies * “Philadelphia”, Director: Ismail Rahimzadeh, Seyed Mojtaba Asadipour (2011) * “Girls”, Director: Qasem Jafari (2009) * “Behind the Curtain of Fog”, Director: Parviz Sheikh Tadi (2004) * “Chori”, Director: Javad Ardakani (2000) * “The Last Battle”, Director: Hamid Bahmani (1997) * “That Man Came”, directed by Hamid Bahmani (1993) * “Ambassador Driver”, directed by Shafi Agham Mohammadian and Habibaullah Bahmani (1993) * “Reverse Effort”, directed by Ali Asgari (1993) * “One Night a Stranger”, directed by Hossein Ghasemi Jami (1992) TV series *

Homer Keller

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Homer T. Keller (February 17, 1915 – May 12, 1996) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He graduated from Oxnard Union High School in Oxnard, California in 1933, after which he attended the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Howard Hanson, obtaining B.M. (1937) and M.M. (1938) degrees. In 1939 he was awarded US$500 in the 1939 Henry Hadley Foundation competition. He taught at the University of Michigan (where his notable students included Leslie Bassett, George Balch Wilson, Norma Wendelburg, and Donald Harris) then at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon from 1958 to 1976. His notable students at the University of Oregon include Ralph Towner, Dean C. Taylor, Stephen Scott, and Robert Scott Thompson. Also at the University of Oregon, Keller worked with Jon Appleton to set up that university’s electronic music studio. While at the University of Michigan he also served on the Interlochen Music Camp staff where he helped and influenced many aspiring young musicians including notable Dwight Beckham in 1950. His music has been conducted by William Strickland. It is published by the American Composers Alliance. Keller’s last residence was Montclair,

Hong Nan-pa

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Hong Nan-pa (April 10, 1898 – August 30, 1941) was a Korean composer, violinist, conductor, music critic and educator. He is best known as the composer of Bongseonhwa (봉선화, literally Garden Balsam) written in 1919. It is generally considered as the first true Korean original song composed in Western style. It was widely sung during the period. Hong also contributed to developing Korean culture during the period with his diverse cultural activities. Biography Hong Nan-pa was born at Hwalcho Village of Namyang Township in present Hwangseong County, Gyeonggi. He was the second son to his father, Hong Sun () of the native Hong Clan to Namyoung (南陽) and his mother from Lee Clan of Jeonju, Jeolla. He had one brother and two sisters. Nan-pa is his ho, or pen name, but his given name is Hong Yeong-hu. His family moved to Seoul when he was still a young child. As he lived near the Ewha Academy () located in the neighborhood of Jeong-dong, he attended Jeongdong Methodist Church and got access to hymn, a Western music. He learned basic Confucian studies at a local seodang (a kind of elementary school) and entered a middle school in 1910 which was affiliated with the Hwangseong Young Men’s Chr

Honiball Joseph

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Honiball Joseph is an American composer, conductor, pianist, music educator, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to music and cultural preservation. He is also an advocate for preserving minority identities, particularly those of Assyrians, amidst political and cultural challenges. Joseph is the former director of the Beneil Music Academy and the founder of both the Messiah Ensemble and the Gilgamesh Arts & Culture Foundation. Early life and education Joseph was born on January 2, 1971, in Mashhad, Iran. In 1986, he entered the Tehran Conservatory of Music, where he studied violin under the guidance of Behrouz Vahidi Azar. He also studied composition with prominent Iranian masters such as Morteza Hannaneh and Sharif lotfi. After completing his military service, Joseph pursued higher education at Azad University of Art and Architecture in 1996, majoring in music. He studied piano as his principal instrument and received short-term training in composition with Thomas Christian David and Tengiz Shavlokhashvili. Career Joseph began teaching music in 1986 and focused on composing and arranging choral music for churches in Iran and abroad. In 1999, he founded the Messiah En

Hooper Brewster-Jones

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Hooper Josse Brewster-Jones (1887–1949) was a musician, composer, teacher and music critic, born near Orroroo on the Black Rock Plain, South Australia. His parents were William Arthur Jones (c. 1855–1947), a school master, and Rebecca née Williams. He attended school at Armagh and Bute, where he was taught by his father, including music. In June 1896, he performed a duet with Rebie Jones and then his own composition, “The Bute March” – he celebrated his ninth birthday a few days later. He left home at age 13 to board in Adelaide. He returned to Adelaide in 1909 to teach piano, composition and singing. In the following year, in June, he married Gerta Homburg, an amateur singer and authority on German lieder. During 1916, Brewster-Jones composed an opera in three acts. A correspondent from The Advertiser described the work, “The subject is an old Irish tragedy, ‘Deirdre’, and he has adopted a prose libretto. The ‘solo’, requirements are two sopranos, tenor, baritone, and bass. No chorus is introduced.” His works include an opera The Nightingale and the Rose from The Happy Prince and Other Tales. He worked with the Australian Broadcasting Commission as a pianist, radio lecturer and co

Hope Temple

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Hope Temple, born as Alice Maude Davis (27 December 1859 – 10 May 1938) was an Irish songwriter and composer. She was also known as Mrs André Messager. Life Alice Davis was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was known professionally as Hope Temple. She moved with her family to England aged 12 and began composing ballads at the age of 14. Initially she studied music with the idea of becoming a pianist, but an injury in a riding accident caused her to give up her ambitions. Her teachers in London included John Francis Barnett (piano) and Edouard Silas (harmony and counterpoint). In the early 1890s she continued her studies in Paris with André Wormser and André Messager. In 1892, her operetta The Wooden Spoon was produced in London (also in New York, 1893), but she was known primarily for her songs, some of which became very popular. Her song My Lady’s Bower is sung by Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses. In 1892, a reproduction of a photograph of her taken by Alex Bassano of Old Bond Street, London, was published in the Strand Magazine, as part of a series called “Types of English Beauty”. In 1894, she assisted Messager in writing the opera Mirette, and then became his second wife in 1895

Horace Poussard

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Horace Remi Poussard (11 June 1829 – 12 September 1898) was a French violinist and composer. Career Poussard was born in Château-Gontier, the son of music teacher and conductor Charles Francois Poussard. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, graduating with the First Class prize in violin in 1849 with a performance of a Viotti Concerto (reviewed in La Vigie de l’Ouest, 14 September 1849). In the 1850s he began his career as a professional violinist with concerts in Paris, Vienna, and Constantinople. He also travelled through Hungary, Greece, Wallachia, and the British Isles. In 1860 he appeared in London, along with a fellow French cellist, René Douay. In 1861 Poussard and Douay sailed to Australia, and gave their first concerts there in Melbourne. They toured the goldfields and major towns in the states of Victoria and South Australia before going to the South Island of New Zealand. During this period, their repertoire consisted mainly of more popular pieces, easily recognised by the inhabitants of the newly emerging country. To commemorate the exploration (and death) of Burke and Wills on their journey across Australia, Poussard wrote The Dead Heroes, a musical poem of 17 sta

Horacio Vaggione

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Horacio Vaggione (born 21 January 1943) is an Argentine composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music who specializes in micromontage, granular synthesis, and microsound and whose pieces are often scored for performers and computers (mixed music). Biography He studied composition at the National University of Córdoba (1958–1961) and privately in Buenos Aires with Juan Carlos Paz (1960–1963), then at the University of Illinois with Lejaren Hiller and Herbert Brün (1966) where he first gained exposure and access to computers. In 1983 he received a Doctorate in Musicology at the University of Paris VIII (thesis director: Prof. Daniel Charles). Vaggione was born in Córdoba, Argentina, but has lived in Europe since 1969. While in Argentina he was a co-founder of the Experimental Music Center (CME) of the National University of Cordoba (1965–1968), and co-organizer of the Experimental Music Meetings of the III Bienal Americana de Arte (1966). From 1969 to 1973 he lived in Madrid, Spain, and was part of the ALEA live electronics music group with Luis de Pablo, the ALEA electronic Music Studio and the Project Music and Computer at the University of Madrid. In 1978 he moved to France,

Horatio Parker

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Horatio William Parker (September 15, 1863 – December 18, 1919) was an American composer, organist and teacher. He was a central figure in musical life in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 19th century, and is best remembered as the undergraduate teacher of Charles Ives while the composer attended Yale University. Biography He was born in Auburndale, Massachusetts. His earliest lessons were with his mother. He then studied in Boston with George Whitefield Chadwick, Stephen A. Emery, and John Orth. His first professional position was playing the organ at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Dedham, Massachusetts. He was paid a salary of roughly $300 a year from September 1880 to January 1882. included Arthur Whiting and H. H. Huss. In Munich Parker composed his first significant works, including a symphony and a dramatic cantata. He also premiered Joseph Rheinberger’s Organ Concerto No. 1 in F Major from 1884 there. After his return to the United States in 1885, he was for two years professor of music in the Cathedral School of St. Paul in Garden City, Long Island. From 1888 to 1893, he was organist of Trinity Church, New York City, and from 1893 to 1901 organist of Trinity Church, Bosto

Hormoz Farhat

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Hormoz Farhat (; 9 August 1928 – 16 August 2021) was an Iranian-American composer and ethnomusicologist who spent much of his career in Dublin, Ireland. An emeritus professor of music, he was a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. Described by the Irish Times as a “gifted and distinctive composer of contemporary classical music,” his compositions include orchestral, concertante, piano and choral music, as well string quartets and chamber works. He also wrote numerous film scores, including that of Dariush Mehrjui’s 1969 film The Cow. His father Ebrahim Farat was a senior official at the Persian Ministry of Finance married to his mother Sedique. According to Farhat himself, his early exposure to Iranian music was limited to his father occasionally playing the tar. Instead, he recalls that his ““early musical outlook was mainly western”, later filtered through the country’s radio station that was established in 1939. Farhat later moved to the United States and received a BA in music from the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA (1953), an MA in composition from Mills College, California (1955), and a PhD in composition and ethnomusicology from UCLA (1965). He studied composition

Horst Christill

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Horst Christill (born 1959) is a German church musician and composer of sacred music, especially hymns of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL). Life and career Born in Annweiler am Trifels, Christill first studied from 1976 music pedagogy, focused on piano, at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken, completing with the concert exam in 1983. He then studied Catholic church music at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, completing with the A exam in 1988. External links *

Horst Irrgang

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Horst Irrgang (1929 – 1997) was a German composer, conductor and musicologist. Life and career Born in Magdeburg, Irrgang studied school music in Weimar from 1948 to 1954, German studies at Jena University and music education (with Fritz Reuter) and musicology (with Max Schneider) at Halle University. As a composer and conductor, he devoted himself to amateur music throughout his life. From 1954 to 1958, he was artistic director of the folk art ensemble of the VEB Leuna-Werke Walter Ulbricht. In 1958, the took over the choral direction of the Louis Fürnberg ensemble of the University of Leipzig, which he held until 1965. Towards the end of the 1950s, he simultaneously took over the direction of the choir at VEB Hochbauprojektierung Halle. Irrgang was a board member of the and for many years the head of the folk music section of the Halle/Magdeburg district association. As a musicologist, Irrgang had been an editor at VEB Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig since 1959 (Deutscher Verlag für Musik). He published numerous choral and song books with his own settings, which were part of the standard repertoire of numerous choirs, especially in the GDR. He also wrote instrumental sets of German

Hoshi (South Korean singer)

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Kwon Soon-young (; born June 15, 1996), known by his stage name Hoshi (), is a South Korean singer and dancer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen, the leader of its performance team and part of its subunits BSS and Hoshi X Woozi. Hoshi made his solo debut with “Spider” on April 2, 2021. Early life Kwon Soon-young was born on June 15, 1996, in Namyangju, Gyeonggi, South Korea. Hoshi attended Maseok High School. Career 2011–2014: Pre-debut Hoshi joined Pledis Entertainment in late 2012, where he received training for the next four years. In 2013, he appeared on Seventeen TV, an online reality show that introduced Pledis’ trainees and showed potential members of the boy group Seventeen before their official debut. The show was broadcast periodically on Ustream, where the trainees showed themselves training, singing, creating choreographies, and playing games. The online show, titled Like Seventeen, also included participation in concerts. 2015–present: Seventeen and solo activities In 2015, Hoshi debuted as a member of the South Korean boy group Seventeen with the extended play 17 Carat on May 29. Alongside members Seungkwan and DK,

Hoste da Reggio

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Hoste da Reggio (also L’Hoste, L’Osto, Oste, and Bartolomeo Torresano In 1555 he acquired a prebend at S. Calimero, also in Milan, and three years later he attained the prestigious position of maestro di cappella (choir director, the highest musical post) at Milan Cathedral. In 1563 he resumed his previous duties at S. Calimero, staying there until 1567, when he left Milan for Bergamo, where he served as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore. He died there after only two years. This may be due to confusion with another composer, Gasparo Pratoneri, “Spirito da Reggio.” Music and influence Hoste da Reggio’s style showed many of the characteristics of the mid-century madrigal, which was at that time evolving along several different paths. He published his madrigals in five volumes in Venice between 1547 and 1554. Some of the methods of madrigal composition common around 1550 which can be found in Hoste’s music include chromaticism, unusual chord progressions, especially around cadences, and note nere (black-note) writing. In the note nere style, quick passages (written in filled-in notes, i.e., “black” notes) alternate with slower-moving sections, often in extreme contrast. Anot

Houman Dehlavi

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Houman Dehlavi (; born 8 July 1971) is an Iranian musician and composer. Biography Houman Dehlavi was born in 1971 in Tehran. He learned to play the santur from his mother, Susan Aslani, when he was a child. At the age of ten, he practiced playing the piano for five years with Farman Behboud. Meanwhile, along with his sister Haleh Dehlavi, he also learned to play the violin with musicians such as Manouchehr Ansari, Partow Pourafar, Behrouz Vahidiyeh Azar, and Siavash Zahir al-Dini. He first learned the fundamentals of music from his father Hossein Dehlavi and later with musicians such as Parviz Mansouri and Ahmad Pejman. After he finished high school with a graphics diploma from Tehran School of Visual Arts in 1993 and with the establishment of classical music courses in Azad University he started his major in playing the piano and benefited from the training of Rafael Minaskanian and Chista Gharib. As he was studying at the university, he started teaching music as well as composing music for theaters, and also attended open music courses by musicians such as Emanuel Malik Aslanian and Mehran Rouhani. He also benefited from the training of Thomas Christian David by participating in

Howard Bashaw

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Howard Bashaw (born 1957 in White Rock, Canada) is a composer of acoustic music; and a professor of music at the University of Alberta. Bashaw graduated as a Master of Music in 1984 and a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1989 from the University of British Columbia. He also attended the Banff Centre for the Arts where he won the Banff Centre Concerto Competition in 1992. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, and CBC Radio Music Department have commissioned his work. Further reading *Steenhuisen, Paul (2009); “Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers”; Edmonton: University of Alberta Press *Couroux, Marc (1999); “Corpus Hermeticum - Howard Bashaw”; infinit.net *Poole, Elissa (2004); “Complex structures: Howard Bashaw’s music plays with the organization of time”; Words & Music *Steenhuisen, Paul; “Bashaw – various works” review; paulsteenhuisen.com References External links *“Walter Boudreau : Sax, Drums & Co.” www.scena.org; 2003-11-05 *Art Music Promotion website

Howard Blake

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Howard David Blake (born 28 October 1938) is an English composer, conductor, and pianist whose career has spanned more than 50 years and produced more than 650 works. Blake’s most successful work is his soundtrack for Channel 4’s 1982 film The Snowman, which includes the song “Walking in the Air”. He is increasingly recognised for his classical works including concertos, oratorios, ballets, operas and many instrumental pieces. Early life Howard Blake was born in London and grew up in Brighton. His mother played piano and violin, and his father sang tenor in the church choir. At Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School for Boys, from the age of 11 he sang lead roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas and was recognised as a good pianist, but few were aware that he was also writing music. At the age of 18, he won the Hastings Musical Festival Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied piano with Harold Craxton and composition with Howard Ferguson, but he found himself at odds with his contemporaries in regard to musical style. He virtually stopped composing, instead becoming interested in film, and on leaving the Academy briefly worked as a film projectionist at the Nati

Howard Cable

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Howard Reid Cable (December 15, 1920 – March 30, 2016) was a conductor, arranger, music director, composer, and radio and television producer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Biography Cable received an Associate diploma (ATCM) from The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in conducting and bandmastership 1939. He is also a recipient of an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) degree from the University of Lethbridge in 2002. Cable studied piano, clarinet, and oboe, and played in the Parkdale Collegiate Institute orchestra under Leslie Bell. While leading a dance band, the Cavaliers, 1935-41 in Toronto and at southern Ontario summer resorts, he studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music with Sir Ernest MacMillan, Ettore Mazzoleni, and Healey Willan. He also studied with John Weinzweig in 1945. Cable composed and arranged the original theme for the Hockey Night in Canada television broadcast, Saturday’s Game, which opened the broadcast from 1952 until 1968. His arrangement for solo piano of Dolores Claman’s The Hockey Theme that was the show’s theme from 1968 until the mid-2000s is one of the best selling pieces of sheet music in Canada. (Jerry Toth arranged the broadcast ver

Howard Dyck

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Howard Dyck, CM (born November 17, 1942) is a Canadian conductor, public speaker, and radio broadcaster born in Winkler, Manitoba, now living in Waterloo, Ontario. He is most well known as the longtime host of CBC Radio programmes Choral Concert and Saturday Afternoon at the Opera, which he hosted from 1987 to 2007. Early life Dyck was born and raised in Winkler, Manitoba, in 1942 and later studied at Mennonite Brethren Bible College, now Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg and Goshen College in Indiana. *2002 - Awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. *2004 - Received the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors Distinguished Service Award. *2007 - City of Waterloo Legacy of Leaders. *2008 - Waterloo County Hall of Fame. *2010 - Artistic Director Emeritus, Grand Philharmonic Choir *2010 - Conductor Emeritus, Bach Elgar Choir *2011 - Waterloo Region Lifetime Achievement Arts Award *2012 - Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal References External links *The Grand Philharmonic Choir

Howard Ellis Carr

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Howard Ellis Carr (26 December 1880 - 16 November 1960) was a British composer and conductor who worked in both Britain and Australia during his career. He was a prolific composer of theatre, operetta and light orchestral music, as well as orchestral works. In his early career Carr worked as a conductor and musical director in theatres and touring productions, including working for two years in Australia. After returning to England in late 1909 he established a reputation as a specialist in theatrical orchestration. During World War I and afterwards his orchestral compositions were performed at the promenade concerts at Queen’s Hall. In the 1920s he was conductor of the Municipal Orchestra at Harrogate in North Yorkshire. Carr returned to Australia in 1928. After several years as musical director in theatrical productions, he took on roles such as teaching at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney and a conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Society. In the mid-1930s he worked on orchestration for radio broadcasts. Carr returned to England in 1938 where he worked for the BBC. Biography Early years Howard Ellis Carr was born on 26 December 1880 in Manchester, the eldest son of Edward Ca

Howard Frazin

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Howard Frazin (born 1962) is a composer based in Somerville, Massachusetts. His works are published by Edition Peters and he has served as president of Composers in Red Sneakers. He served on the faculty of the Longy School of Music and has taught at New England Conservatory, Northeastern University, and Roxbury Latin School. Life Howard Frazin was raised in Lincolnwood, Illinois, and graduated from Niles West High School. He received a bachelor of arts in English from the University of Michigan in 1985 before beginning his formal musical training at the New England Conservatory, where he studied between 1984 and 1989. In 1994, he earned a master of arts in music composition from the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Dominick Argento. Frazin subsequently settled in Massachusetts, living in Cambridge and Somerville. Music Frazin’s music is for the most part recognizably tonal, described by New Music Connoisseur as inhabiting “a slightly clouded tonal world that ably weds aspects of Leonard Bernstein and Olivier Messiaen.” Among his most noted works is the oratorio, The Voice of Isaac, commissioned by PALS Children’s Chorus and published by Edition Peters. The piece is a

Howard Goodall

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Howard Lindsay Goodall ( ; born 26 May 1958) is an English composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. He also presents music-based programmes for television and radio, for which he has won many awards. In May 2008, he was named as a presenter and “Composer-in-Residence” with the UK radio channel Classic FM. In May 2009, he was named “Composer of the Year” at the Classic BRIT Awards. Early life Born in Bromley, Kent, Goodall was educated at New College School, where he was a chorister in the Choir of New College, Oxford. He then went on to Stowe School and Lord Williams’s School. He read music at Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained a first-class degree. Works Popular music In the late 1970s, Goodall was a member of the band Half Brother with his friend Jonathan Kermode. They produced an eponymous LP album, Half Brother, in 1978. Musical theatre Goodall’s 1984 musical The Hired Man, an adaptation of the novel by Melvyn Bragg, won an Ivor Novello award (1985) and TMA Award (2006) award for Best Musical. Professional revivals of The Hired Man in recent years include a UK tour by the New Perspectives Theatre Company in 2008 and a production directed by David Thacker

Howard Hanson

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Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist. As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he raised its quality and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American classical music. In 1944, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 4, and received numerous other awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Entertainment in Music in 1946. Early life and education Hanson was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, to Swedish immigrant parents, Hans and Hilma (née Eckstrom) Hanson. In his youth he studied music with his mother. Later, he studied at Luther College in Wahoo, receiving a diploma in 1911, then at the Institute of Musical Art, the forerunner of the Juilliard School, in New York City, where he studied with the composer and music theorist Percy Goetschius in 1914. Afterward he attended Northwestern University, where he studied composition with church music expert Peter C. Lutkin and Arne Oldberg. Hanson also studied piano, cello, and trombone. He earned his BA degree in music from Northwestern in 1916, and began his teaching career as a teacher’s assistan

Howard L. Quilling

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Howard Lee Quilling (December 16, 1935 – February 26, 2016) was an American composer and music teacher. He died in Bakersfield, California, on February 26, 2016, at the age of 80. Compositions Pieces for orchestra * 1979 · Music, for guitar and strings. * 1982 · Textures, four miniatures for orchestra. Pieces for wind orchestra * 1967 · Intermezzo. * 1968 · Introspections. * 1970 · Suite, for alto saxophone and wind orchestra. * 1973 · Symfonie. * No Date · Chardy, for brass ensemble and wind orchestra. * No Date · Diversions. Pieces for choir * 1973 · The Clouds of night are passed away, for mixed choir and piano. * 1983 · Two anthems, for mixed choir and piano (or organ). * 1985 · O Thou, who art the shepherd, for mixed choir and organ. * 1986 · Upon a wintery night, for mixed choir and organ. Vocal music * 1958 · Two songs of Rupert Brooke, for voice and piano. * 1967 · That holy thing, for voice and accordion. * 1980 · What will you do on Tuesday, love?, for voice and piano. * 1987 · Two love songs, for soprano, flute, clarinet, guitar, viola and double bass. * 1993 · The Earth Remembers, vocal cycle for soprano, mixed choir and piano (or orchestra). *# The Earth Remembers. *#

Howard Sandroff

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Howard Sandroff (born October 28, 1949, in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American composer, sound artist, sculptor, and music educator. Sandroff studied at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His composition instructors included Robert Lombardo and Ben Johnston. He has received composition and research fellowships and the National Endowment for the Arts, the University of Chicago and the Yamaha Music Foundation. He founded, directed and conducted Chicago’s New Art Ensemble. In 2016, Sandroff retired from the University of Chicago where he was Director of the Computer Music Studio and Senior Lecturer in Music. He is also a professor emeritus of Audio Arts & Acoustics at Columbia College Chicago. In June 1996, Pierre Boulez invited Sandroff to attend the dedication of the new IRCAM facility at the Centre Georges Pompidou. His composition Tephillah, for clarinet and computer, was performed at the dedication by Alain Damiens, clarinetist with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Sandroff has collaborated with clarinetist John Bruce Yeh, performing Boulez’s 1985 work for clarinet and electronics, Dialogue de l’ombre double. Among San

Howard Skempton

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Howard While Skempton (born 31 October 1947) is an English composer, pianist, and accordionist. Since the late 1960s, when he helped to organise the Scratch Orchestra, he has been associated with the English school of experimental music. Skempton’s work is characterised by stripped-down, essentials-only choice of materials, absence of formal development and a strong emphasis on melody. The musicologist Hermann-Christoph Müller has described Skempton’s music as “the emancipation of the consonance”. Life Skempton was born in Chester and studied at Birkenhead School and Ealing Technical College. He started composing before 1967, but that year he moved to London and began taking private lessons in composition from Cornelius Cardew. In 1968 Skempton joined Cardew’s experimental music class at Morley College, where in spring 1969 Cardew, Skempton and Michael Parsons organised the Scratch Orchestra. This ensemble, which had open membership, was dedicated to performing experimental contemporary music by composers such as La Monte Young, John Cage and Terry Riley, as well as by members of the orchestra itself. One of Skempton’s early works, Drum No. 1 (1969), became one of the “most useful

Howard Stelzer

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Howard Stelzer is a composer of electronic music, whose work is made primarily from sounds generated by cassette tapes and tape players. From 1997 until 2012, he ran the independent record label Intransitive Recordings. Early years Stelzer began making music using cassette tapes and metal percussion while he was a teenager in Boca Raton, Florida. After attempting unsuccessfully to learn how to play conventional instruments, he decided instead to use cassette tapes as the source of his music. Beginning in 1996, all of Stelzer’s music would be made with manipulated cassette tapes. I think tapes are simply the language that I speak. When I think about music ideas, I only and always think of them in terms of how they’d be articulated via cassette tapes. – 2016 interview with Tabs Out Podcast Stelzer explained how he first became “fascinated with (cassette tapes) as sound-producing objects: “When I was in high school (1989–1992) and banging on trash cans in my parents’ garage with a boom box recording in the corner, I discovered how the sound captured on the cassette was different from the acoustic sound in the room while I was making the music. From then on, I experimented with making

Howie Smith

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Howie Smith (born February 25, 1943), is a saxophonist, composer, jazz musician and educator Howie Smith was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1943. He was an instructor for the University of Illinois Division of Music Extension from 1970 to 1973 and also taught at Northern Illinois University in 1971. In 1973, under a Fulbright grant, he set up the first tertiary level jazz studies program in Australia at the New South Wales State Conservatorium (now named the Sydney Conservatorium of Music). He remained as Director of Jazz Studies through 1976, and was a member of the Australian group Jazz Co/op from 1974 through 1976. Howie Smith is a full professor at Cleveland State University, has been a frequent performer with the Cleveland Orchestra and soloist with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony since 1982, and has presented numerous concerts and workshops throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe and Australia. Biography Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1943; Howie Smith graduated from Reading Senior High School in 1961. Early studies with his first music teacher, J. Carl Borelli, included clarinet and saxophone pieces from the classical and jazz repertoire. At Mr.