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Tracey Brown

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Tracey Brown is a Canadian country music artist. Brown, a former member of Family Brown, was nominated for a 1999 Juno Award for Best Country Female Vocalist. Her first solo studio album, Woman’s Work, was released in 1998 and produced a Top 20 single with the title track. Biography Brown began performing at 10 years old as a member of Canada’s most awarded country band, Family Brown. During the group’s 22-year career, they recorded 17 albums and hosted a syndicated television show. Tracey Brown released her first solo CD in 1998. Three singles were released from the album, including the title track, which peaked at No. 12 on the RPM Canadian country singles chart. Brown was nominated for Best Country Female Vocalist at the 1999 Juno Awards and Independent Female Vocalist of the Year at the 1999 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. In 2000, Brown was featured in the photo book Dare to Dream – A Celebration of Canadian Women. The following year, she performed at the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards and co-wrote and performed a song for the award-winning short film, Charlie Noir. Brown completed work on her second solo studio album, Alone, which was released in 2008. Its first

Traugott Maximilian Eberwein

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Traugott Maximilian Eberwein (27 October 1775 – 2 December 1831 ), was a German composer and conductor, who is attributed with the start of early musical history in Rudolstadt. Family Eberwein was born into a musical family, his father Alexander Bartholomäus Eberwein (1751-1811) was a court musician and his brother Carl Eberwein was a composer who frequently worked with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, putting his work into music such as Faust. Eberwein had three children with his wife Catharina Bianchi, Caecilie Eberwein (1800-1800), Julius Eberwein (1802-1870) and Ludwig Eberwein (1805-1884). Biography Eberwein was taught music at an early age by his father, where he learned all sorts of instruments and already started composing music at the age of seven with a Timpani. In 1782, he was already making money for the family by playing music at weddings and funerals. In 1791, after his father thought he gained a basic understanding of music, he stopped teaching him. He later continued getting taught by Johann Matthäus Rempt. Eberwein later went to study musicology and violin and became a pupil of F.L.Æ. Kunzen in Frankfurt, and Ernst Johann Christoph Schick in Mainz. After his return from

Tre Jean-Marie

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Tre Jean-Marie (born 13 April 1993) is a Grammy nominated British songwriter and record producer. His writing and production credits include AJ Tracey, Anne-Marie, Burna Boy, Craig David, FLO, Jacob Banks, Joy Crookes, Kaytranada, Labrinth, Little Mix, Mabel, Nathan Dawe, Olivia Dean, and Tom Grennan amongst many others. Early life Jean-Marie was born in Hackney, London and is of Trinidadian and St. Lucian descent. He is the son of singer-songwriters Lincoln Jean-Marie and Valerie-Suzette Jean-Marie. Career In 2016, Jean-Marie became a frequent collaborator of the British artist Craig David, for whom he co-wrote and produced 15 tracks across Following My Intuition and The Time Is Now which peaked at number 1 and 2 respectively on the UK album chart. In 2020, he co-wrote, produced, and mixed “Lighter” by Nathan Dawe featuring KSI which peaked at number 3 on the UK singles chart, was named one of the biggest selling songs of 2020, and went on to be nominated for Best British Single at the 2021 BRIT Awards. He also performed the same duties on Nathan Dawe’s follow-up singles “No Time for Tears” with Little Mix, and “Way Too Long” with Anne-Marie & MoStack. In addition, Jean-Marie owns

Trevor Duncan

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Trevor Duncan (27 February 1924 – 17 December 2005) was an English composer, particularly noted for his light music compositions. Born in London, and largely self-taught, he originally composed as a sideline while working for the BBC. In the UK, he is well known for pieces such as The Girl From Corsica, High Heels and the March from A Little Suite, all of which gained fame as television and radio themes. Life Trevor Duncan was born Leonard Charles Trebilcock (he later shortened this to Trebilco) in Camberwell, London, England. By twelve he could play the piano by ear, but wanted to learn to read and compose music properly. Thus, for one year he attended the Trinity College of Music for an external course on violin, harmony and counterpoint. However, his early knowledge of music was largely self-taught. At eighteen, Duncan joined the British Broadcasting Corporation assisting in the production of radio plays. In 1943 he was conscripted into the Royal Air Force where he became a wireless operator. After his discharge from the RAF in 1947 he was given the opportunity to go to Cambridge University, but decided to return to BBC Radio as a sound and balance engineer working with many lig

Trevor Hold

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Trevor Hold (21 September 1939 – 28 January 2004) was an English composer, poet and author, best known for his song cycles, many of them setting his own poetry. Biography Born in Northampton, Hold suffered an attack of polio at the age of seven, which affected his left arm. Piano lessons were used as therapy, and this led to an early interest in writing for the piano. He also began writing poetry in his teens. Hold was educated at Northampton Grammar School (1950–57), and went on to study at the University of Nottingham, where he completed a first class honours in music, followed by an MA. He became Head of Music at Market Harborough Grammar School, and from 1963–65 assistant lecturer in music at Aberystwyth University. From there he moved on to a lectureship in music at Liverpool University (1965–70). For two decades he taught at the University of Leicester and became a central figure in the local music making of the East Midlands, composing and conducting for local choirs and orchestras, and teaching adult education classes. One of his students was the pianist David Owen Norris. Hold took early retirement from Leicester in 1989 to concentrate on composing and writing. He died une

Trevor Jones (composer)

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Trevor Alfred Charles Jones (born 23 March 1949) is a South African composer of film and television scores, who has worked primarily in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his scoring work during the 1980s and 1990s, where he worked on many acclaimed films including Excalibur, Runaway Train, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans and In the Name of the Father. Jones has collaborated with filmmakers like John Boorman, Andrei Konchalovsky, Jim Henson, Alan Parker, Jim Sheridan, Barbet Schroeder and Michael Mann. Jones has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards for Best Film Music - for Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans, and Brassed Off. He has also been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards - Best Original Score and Best Original Song, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special for the miniseries Merlin. Jones has been a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in Britain since 2006. In 1999, he became the first chair of the music department of the National Film and Television School. Early life and education Jones was born in Cape Town in 1949, one of three siblings born to a Cap

Trey Anastasio

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Ernest Joseph “Trey” Anastasio III is an American guitarist, composer, and singer-songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish original songs, 141 of them as a solo credit, in addition to 41 credits attributed to the band as a whole. In addition to his work with Phish, Anastasio has released 11 solo albums. He has also been part of several side projects; these include the Trey Anastasio Band, Oysterhead, Ghosts of the Forest, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Surrender to the Air. He has performed his own compositions with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and many others. With Amanda Green, he wrote the score for the Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody. In 2013, they were nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score at the 67th Tony Awards, and were awarded the 2013 Dramatists Guild Frederick Loewe Award for best theatrical score composition. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Anastasio at number 53 on their list of the 250 greatest guitarists of all time. Early life

Trisdee na Patalung

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Trisdee na Patalung (; ; born 9 March 1986) is a Thai composer and conductor. He is the music director of the Bangkok Baroque Ensemble and the Resident Conductor of the Orpheus Choir of Bangkok. Na Patalung began studying music at the age of 13. At the age of 15, he stopped his formal education when he met Somtow Sucharitkul, who became his teacher and mentor. He has written two symphonies that he also conducted with the Siam Philharmonic Orchestra. In July 2011, na Patalung conducted the second revival performance of Sucharitkul’s opera Mae Naak based on the Thai ghost story of the same name at the Sala Chalermkrung Royal Theatre in Bangkok. He also conducted the London premiere of this work at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, in September 2011. On July 27, 2011, na Patalung conducted the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai at the Organalia music festival in Turin, Italy. References External links

Trish Murphy

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Trish Murphy is an American singer-songwriter, based in Austin, Texas, United States. She appeared in the Austin City Limits Music Festival twice and has released four records. Music career Trish Murphy grew up in Houston, Texas, the daughter of a struggling musician and songwriter. After earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from the University of Dallas, she formed an eponymous duo with her brother, Darin Murphy, called Trish & Darin. They performed in Houston for several years in the early 1990s. In 1996, Murphy relocated to Austin, and the following year, released her independent album, Crooked Mile. In 1998 and 1999, Murphy performed live as part of the Lilith Fair tour. In 1999, Murphy released her album, Rubies on the Lawn, on Doolittle/Mercury Records. In 2001, she released the independent live acoustic album, Captured. Following a several year sabbatical from performing, Murphy released her 2005 album, Girls Get In Free. This record’s CD release party benefitted GENAustin, a non-profit outreach program that helps middle-school-aged girls develop strong self-esteem. Murphy is also a member of GENAustin’s Board of Directors. Murphy has performed twice at the Austin City

Trish Thuy Trang

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Nguyễn Thùy Trang (born December 15, 1980), known by her stage name Trish Thuy Trang, is a Vietnamese American singer and songwriter. Biography Early life and career Nguyễn Thùy Trang was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on December 15, 1980. Growing up, Trang was already familiar with American music styles as a result of listening to artists such as Madonna, Mariah Carey and Sheryl Crow. As a result, her music can best be described as a mix of Asian pop, western pop, and R&B. Her parents saw the passion she had for music and encouraged her to take piano lessons, which later evolved into discovering Trang’s natural affinity for singing - a discovery that would ultimately result in the opportunity of a lifetime with Asia Entertainment. After seeing Trang’s vocal talents in various karaoke sessions, friends encouraged her to send a demo to Asia Entertainment. Amazed at how fluidly she was able to transition between English and Vietnamese, Asia Entertainment signed her. Trang writes and produces a majority of her own music. She appears on Asia Entertainment videos for the Vietnamese music community and collaborates with Asia Entertainment and Triple T Productions for CD productions.

Tristan Murail

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Tristan Murail (born 11 March 1947) is a French composer associated with the “spectral” technique of composition. Among his compositions is the large orchestral work Gondwana. Early life and studies Murail was born in Le Havre, France. His father, Gérard Murail, is a poet and his mother, Marie-Thérèse Barrois, a journalist. One of his brothers, Lorris Murail, and his younger sister Elvire Murail, a.k.a. Moka, are also writers, and his younger sister Marie-Aude Murail is a French children’s writer. First studying political science and economics, he also began playing the Ondes Martenot. This led to contact with Jeanne Loriod and thence to her brother-in-law Olivier Messiaen , with whom he subsequently studied composition at the Paris Conservatory from 1967 to 1972. He taught computer music and composition at IRCAM in Paris from 1991 to 1997. While there, he assisted in the development of Patchwork composition software. In 1973 he was a founding member of the Ensemble l’Itinéraire. Music Murail is associated with the “spectral” technique of composition, which involves the use of the fundamental properties of sound as a basis for harmony, as well as the use of spectral analysis, FM, R

Tristan Perich

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Tristan Perich (born 1982) is a contemporary composer and sound artist from New York City who focuses on electronic one-bit sound. Perich received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2004 and went on to earn a master’s degree from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Perich is of Croatian descent. Perich composed a series of compositions as well as sound art installations with one-bit electronics, which Perich describes as being music that never has more than one bit of information being played at any given time. In Denmark he was an artist in residence, where he built a series of sculptures called Interval Studies consisting of large numbers of small speakers, each sending out its own frequency. The blending of all of these independent frequencies generates white noise, or other forms of colored noise. His other works include Machine Drawings and 1-bit Video. Together with Kunal Gupta and Katie Shima he forms the group Loud Objects. This group performs electronic music by soldering. Perich has performed on Blip Festival and SxSW. Works by Perich have been commissioned for Bang on a Can festival held at Lincoln Center in New York City. In February 2010 he won, with his Lo

Tristin Norwell

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Tristin Norwell is a British music composer, producer, mixer, arranger, and musician. He recorded and mixed the Mercury Prize winning Talvin Singh, album O.K., and has worked with Neneh Cherry, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Madonna, Embrace, Tricky and Cast and recorded Noel Gallagher’s tenth Number one album, Who Built The Moon. He has worked extensively for David Holmes on the award-winning series Killing Eve, the 2015 Ivor Novello winning Yann Demange film 71 and “London Spy”, and the film Ordinary Love and for Adrian Corker on the Tim Roth series “Tin Star (2017)”. Among others he scored the feature films Trick Or Treat (2019), the road film Hellbent (2018) and two John Hardwick feature films Svengali and Follow The Money. His TV credits include the long running series Waterloo Road, Wild at Heart, John Hurt’s Whistle and I’ll Come to You, the supernatural ghost story written by M.R. James, Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! starring Michael Sheen, and Meera Syal’s novel Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee. Mal Influence (2015) In October 2014, Norwell released his record Mal Influence, on his Cinefonietta Label, an experimental album melding his classical influences with electronica. Critiques have

Tristram Cary

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Tristram Ogilvie Cary, OAM (14 May 192524 April 2008), was a pioneering English-Australian composer. He was also active as a teacher and music critic. Career Cary was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Westminster School in London. He was the third son and child of a pianist and the Ulster-born novelist Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson. While working as a radar engineer for the Royal Navy during World War II, he independently developed his own conception of electronic and tape music, and is regarded as being amongst the earliest pioneers of these musical forms. With Peter Zinovieff and David Cockerell, he founded Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd, which created the first commercially available portable synthesiser, the EMS VCS 3, and was then involved in the production of such distinctive EMS products as the EMS Synthi 100. In 1967 he created an electronic music studio at the Royal College of Music. ), as well as the score for the Ealing comedy The Ladykillers (1955). Later film scores included The Boy Who Stole a Million (1960); The Prince and The Pauper (1962); Sammy Going South (1963); Quatermass and the Pit (1967) and Blood from the

Trond Kverno

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Trond Hans Farner Kverno (born 20 October 1945, in Oslo) is a contemporary Norwegian composer. He received degrees in church music, music theory and choir direction from the Norwegian Academy of Music. He is known for his liturgical compositions. He also serves as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Christ Catholic Church International. Church music has spearheaded major new developments in music in Norway throughout the post-war period, in terms of both musical innovation and institutional renewal. At the same time church music composers have enjoyed growing popularity among musicians and listeners alike. Trond H.F. Kverno has been an exponent of this tradition since the 1970s, and his compositions are today among the finest and most frequently performed in Norway. Trond H.F. Kverno was born in Oslo in 1945. He took his degree in church music from the Oslo Conservatory of Music in 1967. The following year he took a degree in music theory and choir direction. He was ordained deacon of music in 1975, and has served as an organist in a number of churches in Oslo and elsewhere. After beginning his teaching career at the Oslo Conservatory of Music in 1971, Trond H.F. Kverno transferred to the N

Trond Reinholdtsen

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Trond Reinholdtsen (born 7 November 1972) is a Norwegian contemporary composer and vocalist. Reinholdtsen graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music where he subsequently completed his diploma degree in composition. Reinholdtsen’s first pieces were modernistic, complex works in the German style, of which the best known is perhaps Psalm (Narrative Studies) for sinfonietta recorded on the album Faces (2000). He has also distinguished himself as a singer in the ensemble Nordic Voices, and is active as a culture critic and commentator. Since his debut, Reinholdtsen’s music has developed in a performative direction; conventional music passages are fused with performance-based forms of expression including essayistic interpretations, live-camera filming and elements including statistical facts, and face-making. A trademark feature of his performances is the concert-ending “composer’s speech to the audience”; a talk that could be performed live on screen, in recorded format or relayed through instruments such as midi-drums. In 2005, Reinholdtsen received the Fartein Valen Scholarship and in 2011 he was bestowed with the Arne Nordheim Composer’s Prize. His works have been performed inte

Troy Roberts (musician)

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Troy Roberts is an Australian-born jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator based in New York City. He is a three-time Grammy-nominated artist and has released sixteen albums as a bandleader. Roberts has performed and recorded with numerous prominent jazz musicians, including Joey DeFrancesco, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Kurt Elling, and Van Morrison. Early life and education Roberts was born in Perth, Western Australia. He began his formal music education at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), where he was accepted at the age of 15. He completed a Bachelor of Music with honors in 2001. In 2007, Roberts earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Miami in the United States. Roberts is also active as an educator, having served as an artist-in-residence and lecturer at institutions such as the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. * Winner of the 2001 James Morrison Jazz Scholarship. * Second place in the 2016 Wangaratta International Saxophone Competition. * Recipient of three consecutive DownBeat Jazz Soloist Awards. Discography As Leader * Green Lights (

Troy Sanders (composer)

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Troy Sanders (December 7, 1901 – May 3, 1959) was an American composer and musician who worked in the Hollywood industry from 1930 through 1959. For 30 years, Sanders worked steadily in Hollywood since the first talkies hit the screen, contributing to different areas of the music department, while working mostly as an advisor for composers such as Irving Berlin, Johnny Burke, Frederick Hollander, John Leipold, Alfred Newman, Walter Scharf, Jimmy Van Heusen, Franz Waxman and Victor Young, among others. Selected filmography *Beau Geste (1939) *The Great McGinty (1940) *Going My Way (1943) *Riding High (1943) *Incendiary Blonde (1945) *The Affairs of Susan (1945) *The Stork Club (1945) *Blue Skies (1946) *Road to Rio (1947) *The Perils of Pauline (1947) *Variety Girl (1947) *Isn’t It Romantic? (1947) *The Emperor Waltz (1948) *A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949) *Red, Hot and Blue (1949) *Top o’ the Morning (1949) *Let’s Dance (1950) *Mr. Music (1950) *Riding High (1950) *My Favorite Spy (1951) *The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) *Stalag 17 (1953) *We’re No Angels (1955) *King Creole (1958) *The Five Pennies (1959) References *

Troy Verges

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Troy Verges is an American songwriter of country and pop music from Louisiana. Career His first cut as a songwriter was a track on Faith Hill’s Breathe. His credits include the singles “Wanted”, recorded by Hunter Hayes; “Beer Money”, recorded by Kip Moore; “Who I Am”, recorded by Jessica Andrews; “Blessed”, recorded by Martina McBride; “Wasted”, recorded by Carrie Underwood; “Day Drinking”, recorded by Little Big Town; “Shotgun Rider”, recorded by Tim McGraw; and “I Want Crazy”, recorded by Hunter Hayes all of which went to number one on the country music charts. “Wanted” was ACM nominated in 2013 for Song of the Year, while “I Want Crazy” received a 2014 Grammy nomination and “Day Drinking” received a 2015 Grammy nomination. “Wanted”, composed by Hunter Hayes and Troy Verges, took home Song Of The Year honors at the 2013 BMI Country Awards. and was also named one of Billboard’s top ten songs of the decade He produced and mixed the Anders Osborne album Coming Down. Awards Verges was named “Songwriter of the Year” in 2002 by Broadcast Music Incorporated and “Songwriter of the Year” by the Nashville Songwriters Association International. In 2011, Verges garnered both and Oscar nomin

Trude Rittmann

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Gertrud Rittmann (24 September 1908 – 22 February 2005) was a German Jewish composer, musical director, arranger and orchestrator who lived and worked for much of her life in the United States. Her career particularly flourished with major successes in Broadway theater. Early years Trude Rittmann was born in Mannheim, Germany, and began piano lessons at age eight. She studied with Ernst Toch and Hans Bruch at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, and graduated in 1932, already noted as a promising composer. Rittmann fled Germany in 1933, and worked in France, Belgium and England, and in 1937 settled in the United States. Her mother and sister escaped Germany as well, but her father died in prison under the Nazis. Career In New York Rittmann was hired by Lincoln Kirstein as a concert accompanist and pianist for George Balanchine’s American Ballet Caravan. She later became musical director, touring with them for four years and working with composers including Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein. In 1941 Rittmann and Stefan Wolpe composed the music for the film Palestine at War, made by the Palestine Labour Commission. Also in 1941 Rittmann took a position wi

Truid Aagesen

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Truid Aagesen (fl. 1593–1625) was a Danish composer and organist. His only known published music is a set of secular Cantiones for three voices which were published in Hamburg in 1608 under his Latinized name, Theodoricus Sistinus. He was also known under the name Trudo Haggaei Malmogiensis. Little is known about Aagesen’s early life but his musical mentor and spiritual adviser was Norwegian-born Jesuit Laurentius Nicolai with whom he studied music. Aagesen was appointed organist of Vor Frue Kirke in Copenhagen on 23 June 1593. He studied in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli from 1599 to 1600. In 1600, he went to Prague as a royal commissioner for the King Christian IV. Between 1609 and 1611, he is supposed to have taught at the court and therefore received subsidies from the royal treasury. In 1613, the Danish king published a letter stating that all men of the “Roman Catholic” religion must leave Denmark. Aagesen, who had been suspected of being on the Pope’s payroll as early as 1604, was informed of a ruling made in the governing body of Copenhagen University on 15 September 1613 that, since he had Catholic sympathies, he should not be allowed to continue as organist. In 1615, he wa

Truman Crawford

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Colonel Truman W. “Tru” Crawford (USMC) (April 1, 1934 – March 3, 2003) was a music arranger, composer, and conductor for drum and bugle corps. He was the long-time commander and director of “The Commandant’s Own,” the United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps after having previously served as musical director of the United States Air Force Drum and Bugle Corps. Biography A native of Endicott, New York, Truman Crawford performed in a local fife and drum corps from the age of eight. He gained rapid promotion, becoming the unit’s senior non-commissioned officer and musical director. As Glenn Miller had done with the Army Air Force Band during World War II, Crawford transformed the unit from a staid, martial music unit into a swinging, contemporary musical ensemble before the corps was disbanded in 1963. Leaving the Air Force after the drum corps’ demise, Crawford moved to Chicago, where he went to work in a music store. He continued to write arrangements for drum corps, many of which he had begun his involvement with while in the Air Force. He worked especially closely with the Chicago Royal Airs Drum and Bugle Corps, which in 1965, playing Crawford’s arrangements, became the only dr

Trygve Madsen

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Trygve Madsen (born 15 February 1940) is a Norwegian composer and pianist. Early life and education Born in Fredrikstad, Madsen demonstrated musical ability at an early age when he began to learn to play the piano at age six and first started composing aged seven. Madsen went on to study under Egil Hovland and Erik Werba, Madsen’s personal interest in playing jazz piano and the influence that pianists such as Art Tatum, Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson had on him can be heard in his use of the piano. Career Trygve Madsen produced an extensive number of works, including many published by Musikk-Husets Forlag – in 2009, the company had 125 works by Madsen in their catalogue. and in 2009 The Dream of the Rhinoceros was used as an obligatory piece at a Polish national horn competition. Aside from printed music, the composer has also had his work featured on thirty-six CDs, eight of which were solely dedicated to his work. Production Selected works * Einladung zu eine Reise mit Mozart und vier Hornisten * Konzert für Trompete und Orchester * Circus Terra, an opera with libretto by Jon Bing * Suite for Flute and Piano, Op. 2 * Sonata for Horn and Piano, Op. 24 * Concerto #1 for Piano and