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M Lamar

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M Lamar (born May 29, 1972) is an American composer, performer, and artist. He is an operatic countertenor and pianist whose work incorporates film, sculpture, installation, and performance. Lamar is the twin of actress Laverne Cox, and played his sister’s character pre-transition in two episodes of the Netflix show Orange Is the New Black. Early life and career Lamar was born in Mobile, Alabama, and as a child he sang as a soprano in his church’s choir. He studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and attended Yale for graduate school in sculpture before dropping out to focus on music. In 2014, Lamar participated in an open dialogue with authors bell hooks, Marci Blackman, and Samuel R. Delany called “Transgressive Sexual Practice” as part of hooks’ work as scholar-in-residence at The New School. He has cited the writing of hooks and Toni Morrison, as well as operatic composer Diamanda Galás’s Plague Mass, as inspirations for his work. The work is loosely based on the life and death of Willie Francis, a Black American charged with having murdered a 53-year-old white man at the age of 15; Francis’s case only received significant attention when he survived an attempted exe

Mladen Guteša

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Mladen “Bobby” Guteša (; 16 December 1923 – 2 December 2015), also known as Mladen Gutesha, was an orchestra conductor, composer, and arranger of Serbo-Yugoslav origin who lived and worked in Germany and Switzerland. He worked under his real name, as well as the pseudonyms Gert Bauer, Sonny Steffen, and Chris Halmon. He mainly composed pieces for jazz, symphony and dance orchestras, as well as film. Contemporary critics have often referred to him as “the Quincy Jones of Yugoslav jazz”. Life and work Guteša taught himself the trombone in 1941 and studied conducting at the Faculty of Music at the University of Arts in Belgrade for five years, from 1945 to 1949. While still a student, he played trombone with the Belgrade Radio Orchestra starting from 1943. In 1946 he became a trombonist in Bojan Adamič’s orchestra. He emigrated to Germany the same year, where he played the trombone in jazz ensembles in US officers’ clubs in Frankfurt. There he came into contact with Benny Goodman and arranged several pieces for him. Guteša worked as a trombonist for Kurt Edelhagen and also became a sought-after arranger for German radio stations, where he also wrote the arrangements (Walkin and ‘Round

Mladen Milicevic

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Mladen Milicevic (born 1958) is a Bosnian composer of experimental music, sound installation, and film music. He is a professor and has been for many years the Chair of the Recording Arts Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is best known for composing the score to the cult film The Room. Early life and education Born into a family of film-makers; his father was a cinematographer and his mother Zlata was a film editor). Milicevic started playing piano when he was 6. He received a B.A. in music composition (1982) and an M.A. (1986) in music composition and multimedia arts from the Sarajevo Music Academy, in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he studied with Josip Magdic. Milicevic came to the United States in 1986 to study with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he received his M.A. in experimental music composition (1988). After Wesleyan, he went to study at the University of Miami in Florida, where he received his PhD in computer and experimental music composition in 1991. He also studied for several summers at the Aspen Music School/Festival with Michael Czajkowski. Career In the nineties, Milicevic has concentrated on live int

Mlle Duval

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Mlle Duval (short for Mademoiselle Duval) (c. 1718 – after 1775) was an 18th-century French composer who wrote the second opera by a woman ever performed at the Paris Opera. Biography Mlle Duval, whose first name is unknown, was a French composer and dancer who was an accomplished harpsichordist.