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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) is a private research university in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. It was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain, and is one of only three United States universities to have been founded under such authority.
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Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania () is a U.S. state and Commonwealth located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to the east. The state's four most populous cities are Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie. The state capital is Harrisburg.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia () is the largest city in Pennsylvania, sixth-most-populous city in the United States and the fifty-first most populous city in the world.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Adrian Anantawan
Adrian Anantawan (born 1983) is a Canadian violinist. Anantawan, who began studying violin at age nine, has performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and has performed at the White House. He is an alumnus of Etobicoke School of the Arts. Growing up in the neighbourhood of Clarkson, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, he attended St. Christopher's Elementary School, and is a member of the St. Christopher's Church Parish.
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Anna Moffo
Anna Moffo (June 27, 1932 - March 9, 2006) was an Italian-American opera singer and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation. She possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agility, and was an affecting singing-actress of great physical beauty.
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Anshel Brusilow
Anshel Brusilow (born Anshel Brusilovsky on 14 August 1928) is an American conductor and violinist.
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Arnold Jacobs
Arnold Jacobs (June 11, 1915 - October 7, 1998) was an American orchestral tuba player who was most known as the principal tubist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1944 until his retirement in 1988.
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Arnold Steinhardt
Arnold Steinhardt (born 1937 in Los Angeles, California), is an American violinist, best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet.
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Benita Valente
Benita Valente (born October 19, 1934), is a distinguished American soprano whose long career has encompassed the operatic stage as well as performance of lieder, chamber music and oratorio. She is especially lauded for her interpretations of Mozart and Handel, but she also excelled in certain Verdi roles. The New York Times once referred to her "as gifted a singer as we have today, worldwide."
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Burt Hara
Burt Hara has been principal clarinetist with the Minnesota Orchestra since 1987.
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Cecile Licad
Cecile Licad (born May 11, 1961), is a renowned Filipina virtuoso classical pianist. She is called "a pianist's pianist" by The New Yorker, her artistry, a blend of daring musical instinct and superb training .
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Daron Hagen
Daron Aric Hagen (, born November 4, 1961 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), is an American composer, conductor, pianist, educator, librettist, and stage director of contemporary classical music and opera.
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David Brooks (actor)
David Brooks (24 October 1917 - 31 March 1999) was an American actor, singer, director, and producer. He first drew critical acclaim for starring in several Broadway musicals during the 1940s, including portraying Tommy Albright in the original production of Brigadoon. In the early 1950s he was an important stage director in the avant-garde theatre scene of Milan, Italy. He returned to the United States during the mid 1950s and began working principally as a stage director and producer for over a decade. He was notably instrumental in producing the United States premieres of a number of works by Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett. He remained active as an actor up through the 1980s.
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David Ludwig
In 2000, Dr. David Ludwig, the Director of the Obesity Program at the Children's Hospital Boston, studied the effects of consuming soft drinks on childhood obesity. Through extensive studies, he showed that the chances of becoming obese increased by approximately 60% for each daily soda the child consumed. He also showed that school children who consume at least 8 ounces of soft drinks daily consume about 835 calories more than children who avoid soft drinks. Ludwig published his findings in The Lancet.
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David N. Johnson
David N. Johnson (born 28 June 1922, San Antonio, Texas) (died 2 August, 1987 in Tempe, Arizona) was an American organist, composer, and professor.
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David Shifrin
David Shifrin (born January 2, 1950) is an American classical clarinetist.
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Eugene Istomin
Eugene George Istomin (November 26, 1925 – October 10, 2003) was an American pianist.
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Frank Guarrera
Frank Guarrera (December 3, 1923 - November 23, 2007) was an Italian-American lyric baritone who enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera, singing with the company for a total of 680 performances. He performed 35 different roles at the Met, mostly from the Italian and French repertories, from 1948 through 1976. His most frequent assignments at the house were as Escamillo in Georges Bizet's Carmen, Marcello in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, Valentin in Charles Gounod's Faust, and Ping in Puccini's Turandot. He was also an admired interpreter of Mozart roles, establishing himself in the parts of both Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. Most of the roles he portrayed were from the lyric repertoire, such as the title role in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, but he also sang some heavier roles at the Met like Amonasro in Aïda, Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West and Il conte di Luna in Il trovatore.
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
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Gary Graffman
Gary Graffman (born 14 October 1928) is an American classical pianist, teacher of piano and music administrator.
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Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them: The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). He founded the noted Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977. In 1986 he commenced a Melbourne Spoleto Festival in Australia, but he withdrew after three years.
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Gianna Rolandi
Gianna Rolandi (born August 16, 1952) is an American soprano. Following a highly successful 20-year national and international operatic career, Rolandi retired from performing in 1994, and is currently director of and principal instructor at the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Lyric Opera Center for American Artists.
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Henri Temianka
Henri Temianka (19 November 1906 in Greenock, Scotland7 November 1992 in Los Angeles) was a virtuoso violinist, conductor, author and music educator.
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Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn (born November 27, 1979) is an American violinist.
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Ignat Aleksandrovich Solzhenitsyn (; born 1972) is a Russian-American conductor and pianist who is the conductor laureate of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the principal guest conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. He is the middle son of famed Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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Jacques Singer
Jacques Singer (May 9, 1910 in Przemyśl, Poland – August 11, 1980 in Manhattan) was an American conductor. His father was the symphony conductor Mark Eli (Meyer), his mother Rachela “Rose” (Bach).
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James Adler
James Adler (born November 19, 1950) is an American composer and pianist hailing from Chicago, Illinois. Adler began his piano studies at age 10 with Elsie K. Brett; his teachers include Rose Willits, Mollie Margolies, and Seymour Lipkin; he has coached with Rudolph Ganz, Ivan Moravec, Olga Barabini, and Konrad Wolff.
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Jennifer Koh
Jennifer Koh is an American violinist, born to Korean parents in Glen Ellyn, IL.
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Jennifer Stumm
Jennifer Stumm is a young American concert violist.
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Jeremy McCoy
Jeremy McCoy (born January 19, 1978) is an American bass guitar player, known for playing on the road and in the studio with several artists around the world.
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Joan Lippincott
Joan Lippincott is an American concert organist and former head of the organ department at Westminster Choir College. She was born Joan Edna Hult on December 25, 1935. On June 18, 1960 she married Curtis Lippincott in Bristol Chapel on the campus of Westminster Choir College where she had earned her undergraduate degree, and was pursuing her masters degree. She completed studies at Westminster, and then continued at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she studied with Alexander McCurdy. She served for several years as the principal organist of Princeton University. She has made numerous recordings and is famous for her teachings of rhythm and touch in organ music, particularly that of Bach. Her playing is distinguished by rhythmic intensity, a supple technical control, and emotional intensity.
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John de Lancie
John de Lancie (born March 20, 1948) is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring role as Q on the various Star Trek series, and as Frank Simmons in Stargate SG-1.
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Jorge Bolet
Jorge Bolet (November 15, 1914October 16, 1990) was a Cuban born American pianist, conductor and teacher.
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Josef Hofmann
Josef Casimir Hofmann (originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann; January 20, 1876February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American virtuoso pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.
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Joseph Alessi
Joseph Alessi is a world-renowned, primarily classical, trombonist; he is the current Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and an active soloist, teacher/clinician and recording artist. Alessi is considered to be one of the finest players of the instrument in modern times.
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Juan Diego Flórez
Juan Diego Flórez (born January 13, 1973 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. On June 4, 2007, he received his country's highest decoration, the Gran Cruz de la Orden del Sol del Perú.
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Judy Kang
Judy Kang is a Canadian violinist.
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Julius Eastman
Julius Eastman (October 27, 1940–May 28, 1990) was an African-American composer, pianist, vocalist, and dancer of minimalist tendencies. He was among the first musicians to combine minimalist processes with elements of pop music. He often gave his pieces titles with provocative political intent, such as Evil Nigger and Gay Guerrilla.
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Kansas City Symphony
The Kansas City Symphony (KCS) is a United States symphony orchestra based in Kansas City, Missouri. The current music director is conductor Michael Stern. The current home of the Symphony is the Lyric Theatre, located in Downtown Kansas City on 11th Street between Wyandotte and Central Streets. In September 2011, however, the Symphony will move to the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, also located downtown.
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Katherine Ciesinski
Katherine Ciesinski (born October 13, 1950) is a leading American mezzo-soprano, stage director, and voice professor.
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Kathryn Selby
Kathryn Selby (born 1962) is an Australian classical pianist. She is often known as Kathy Selby.
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Ken Cowan
Ken Cowan is a Canadian organist. A native of Thorold, Ontario, he has toured extensively in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Organ and Coordinator of Organ and Sacred Music at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. He has made numerous recordings, most on the JAV Label. Cowan is a graduate of both The Curtis Institute of Music (Bachelor of Music) and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (Master of Music and Artist Diploma). He has held positions at Saint Bartholomew's Church, St. James Episcopal Church, and the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in New York City, and Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia. He has also been on the roster of Associate Organists for the famous Wanamaker Grand Court Organ in Philadelphia. Cowan has won many national and international competitions and has been a featured recitalist at the last three national conventions of the American Guild of Organists. Cowan lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife Lisa Shihoten.
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Lang Lang (pianist)
Lang Lang () (born June 14, 1982 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China) is a Chinese concert pianist, currently resident in Hong Kong. He is well known in Europe and North America for his concert appearances.
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Lee Hoiby
Lee Hoiby (born 1926) is an American classical pianist and composer.
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Leila Josefowicz
Leila Bronia Josefowicz (born October 20, 1977), is a Canadian classical violinist.
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Leon McCawley
Leon McCawley (born 1973) is a British classical pianist.
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (, ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. He was probably best known to the public as the longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic, for conducting concerts by many of the world's leading orchestras, and for writing the music for West Side Story, Candide, Wonderful Town, and On the Town. Bernstein was the first classical music conductor to make numerous television appearances between 1954 and 1989. He had a formidable piano technique and as a composer also wrote symphonies and other concert music. According to The New York Times, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."
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Leonard Rose
Leonard Rose (July 27, 1918 – November 16, 1984) was an American cellist and pedagogue.
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Leslie Spotz
Leslie Spotz is an American pianist.
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Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss (August 15, 1922 – February 1, 2009) was a German-born American composer, conductor, pianist, and professor.
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Margaret Harshaw
Margaret Harshaw (12 May 1909 - 7 November 1997) was an American opera singer and voice teacher who sang for 22 consecutive seasons at the Metropolitan Opera from November 1942 to March 1964. She began her career as a mezzo-soprano in the early 1930s but then began performing roles from the soprano repertoire in 1951. She sang a total of 39 roles in 25 works at the Met and was heard in 40 of the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. She was also active as a guest artist with major opera houses in Europe and North and South America.
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Matthew Rose (bass)
Matthew Rose (born 1978 in Brighton) is an English operatic bass.
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Michael Hennagin
Michael Hennagin (17 September 1936 – 4 June 1993) was an American composer and university professor.
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Michael Strauss
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Milton Adolphus
Irving Milton Adolphus (January 27, 1913 – August 16, 1988) was a pianist and American classical music composer.
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Muriel Smith
Muriel Smith, OC (May 9, 1930-) is a Manitoba politician. She ran for the leadership of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba in 1979, and subsequently served in the cabinet of NDP Premier Howard Pawley.
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Nicolas Chumachenco
Nicolas Chumachenco (also known as Nicolas Chumachenko), is a Polish-born violin soloist, professor and director of the Queen Sofía Chamber Orchestra.
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Nino Rota
Nino Rota (December 3, 1911, Milan – April 10, 1979, Rome) was a world-renowned Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving for the latter the Academy Award for Best original Score in 1974.
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Nokuthula Ngwenyama
Nokuthula Ngwenyama (born June 16, 1976) is an American solo violist of Zimbabwean and Japanese descent. She is a recording artist under EDI Records, and has taught at the Jacob's School of Music at Indiana University.
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Pearl Chertok
Pearl Chertok (June 18, 1918, in Laconia, New Hampshire - August 1, 1981 in White Plains, New York) was an internationally regarded harpist and composer for harp.
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Peter Serkin
Peter Adolf Serkin (born July 24, 1947) is an American pianist.
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Peter Wiley
Peter Wiley (born 1955) is a cellist and cello teacher. He attended the Curtis Institute of Music at 13 years of age, where he studied with David Soyer. He was then appointed principal cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony at age 20, after one year in the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has been awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant and was nominated with the Beaux Arts Trio for a Grammy Award in 1998 and for another award with the Guarneri String Quartet in 2009. As a member of the Beaux Arts Trio, Wiley performed over a thousand concerts, including appearances with many of the world's greatest orchestras. He continues his association with the Marlboro Music Festival, dating from 1971. He has also been a faculty artist at Caramoor's "Rising Stars" program and has taught at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Mannes College of Music, and Manhattan School of Music. He is currently on the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music and is a member of the Guarneri Quartet and Opus One Piano Quartet.
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Randall Thompson
:For the Canadian boxer see Randall Thompson (boxer)
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Reid Anderson
Reid Anderson is a bassist and composer originally from Minnesota. Anderson is best known for his work in The Bad Plus with pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer Dave King. The Bad Plus have played together since 1989; and, in 2003 Columbia Records released their major label debut These Are the Vistas.
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Rinat Shaham
Rinat Shaham () is an Israeli born mezzo-soprano who has received numerous accolades for her international operatic, concert and recital performances.
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Rose Bampton
Rose Bampton (November 28, 1907 – August 21, 2007) was a celebrated American opera singer who had an active international career during the 1930s and 1940s. She began her professional career performing mostly minor roles from the mezzo-soprano repertoire in 1929 but later switched to singing primarily leading soprano roles in 1937 until her retirement from the opera stage in 1963. She notably had a lengthy and fruitful partnership with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, singing there for eighteen consecutive seasons between 1932 and 1950. Her greatest successes were from the dramatic soprano repertoire, particularly in operas by Richard Wagner. Not a stranger to the concert repertoire, Bampton was particularly known for her performances of works by Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, and her friend Samuel Barber, notably having performed their compositions with the composers accompanying her in concert.
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Rudolf Serkin
Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 – May 8, 1991), was a Bohemian-born pianist.
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Samuel Barber
Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music. He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his opera Vanessa and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. His , a work for soprano and orchestra, was an acclaimed setting of prose by James Agee.
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Sean Osborn
Sean Osborn (b. 1966) is a former clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and is a regular substitute in the clarinet section of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. A student of Stanley Hasty, Frank Kowalsky, and Eric Mandat. Osborn has traveled Europe, Japan, and North America as a soloist and chamber musician. He has also performed as guest principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra. Osborn taught clarinet at the University of Washington from 2006-2009.
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Shmuel Ashkenasi
Shmuel Ashkenasi (born January 11, 1941) is an Israeli violinist and teacher.
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Shuler Hensley
Shuler Paul Hensley (born March 6, 1967) is an American singer and actor.
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Shura Cherkassky
Shura Cherkassky (; 7 October 1909 – 27 December 1995) was a Russian- American classical pianist known for his performances of the romantic repertoire. His playing was characterized by a virtuoso technique and singing piano tone. For much of his later life, Cherkassky resided in Britain.
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Stanley Drucker
Stanley Drucker (born 4 February 1929, Brooklyn, New York) is an American clarinetist. Of Ukrainian ancestry, he began clarinet studies at age ten with Leon Russianoff, and remained his student for five years. He attended the High School of Music & Art (now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, at Lincoln Square). Drucker entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15, but left Curtis after one year, recruited to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. After a year, he worked with the Busch Little Symphony, organized by Adolf Busch. He then became principal clarinetist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Susan Starr
Susan Starr (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American pianist.
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Timothy Cobb
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Vincent Persichetti
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia. He was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, and for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School.
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Vinson Cole
Vinson Cole (born November 21, 1950) is an American operatic tenor.
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Virginia MacWatters
Virginia MacWatters (June 19, 1912 - November 5, 2005) was an acclaimed American coloratura soprano.
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Wendy Warner
Wendy Warner is a cellist from Chicago, Illinois. She performs both as a soloist with major orchestras and as a chamber musician around the world.
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Yefim Bronfman
Yefim "Fima" Naumovich Bronfman (; born April 10, 1958) is a Russian-Israeli pianist.
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Young-Chang Cho
Young-Chang Cho (born 1958 in Seoul) is a Korean classical cellist teaching at the Folkwang University, the arts university of Germany's Ruhr Area.
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Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang (; born February 10, 1987) is a Chinese classical pianist. She was born in Beijing, began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
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A Day at the Curtis Institute | Experience
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- Duration: 2:48
- Published: 28 Jan 2010
- Updated: 14 Mar 2012
Vicki Powell is a young violist who studies with Roberto Diaz at Philadelphias prestigious Curtis Institute of Music. We tag along with Vicki as she goes to harmony class, works with Diaz, plays with the school orchestra and a chamber group, and socializes at the schools traditional afternoon tea.
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Curtis Institute Seasons Greetings
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- Duration: 5:52
- Published: 06 Dec 2010
- Updated: 25 Nov 2011
Students, faculty, and staff from the Curtis Institute of Music share their favorite moments of 2010.
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Curtis Institute of Music Vocal Recital: "Vissi d'arte"
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- Duration: 3:11
- Published: 22 Feb 2010
- Updated: 28 Jan 2012
Allison Sanders, soprano, and Lisa Keller, piano perform Puccini's "Vissi d'arte" from Tosca on the Curtis Student Recital Series, December 2009
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Taking Tea at the Curtis
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- Duration: 3:46
- Published: 02 Nov 2011
- Updated: 14 Apr 2012
The Curtis Institute of Music in Center City has been training the world's best musicians for 87 years. In 1931, a young piano prodigee named Eleanor Sokoloff entered the school, and never left. She has been on the piano faculty for 75 years. Her students include such classical soloists Susan Starr, Leon McCawley, and Hugh Sung; and jazz musician Keith Jarrett. Now, 97, and still on the piano faculty, the Grande Dame of Curtis hosts an afternoon tea for students and staff, from whence she holds court. (Video produced by Peter Crimmins) For the full story go to: www.newsworks.org
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Masterclass at The Curtis Institute of Music with Steve Mackey
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- Duration: 6:40
- Published: 13 Feb 2012
- Updated: 12 Mar 2012
featuring Katerina Kramarchuk, Gabriella Smith and Daniel Temkin
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Curtis Institute of Music Bass Players Holiday Party Skit
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- Duration: 9:51
- Published: 21 Dec 2010
- Updated: 05 May 2012
2010 Curtis Bass Section Holiday Party Video - Double Bass Guys All credit goes to Derek Z
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Looking at the "Curtis Institute of Music Lenfest Hall" Sign
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- Duration: 1:04
- Published: 28 Oct 2010
- Updated: 29 Oct 2010
This is supposed to be finished some time in 2011. It is located on Locust street around two blocks east from Rittenhouse Square.
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Old City String Quartet - Curtis Convocation
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- Duration: 2:07
- Published: 17 Sep 2010
- Updated: 09 Apr 2012
The Old City String Quartet performs an exceprt from Debussy's Quartet in G minor, Op. 10, at the 2010 Convocation for the Curtis Institute of Music.
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Summer Programs Hosted at Curtis
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- Duration: 3:33
- Published: 10 Feb 2012
- Updated: 04 May 2012
Explore classical music this summer in special programs hosted at the Curtis Institute of Music. To register and for more information, visit summerprograms.curtis.edu.
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Curtis Insitute of Music and The Rock School for Dance - A unique collaboration | Creative Campus
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- Duration: 7:34
- Published: 31 Aug 2009
- Updated: 29 Jan 2012
The Curtis Institute of Music and The Rock School for Dance education collaborated on a new ballet.
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J'AIME TRIO FROM THE CURTIS INSTITUTE
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- Duration: 0:40
- Published: 10 May 2011
- Updated: 21 May 2011
Short clip from trio by Dohnanyi. www.kindredspiritsprograms.org
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Curtis Directors' Musical Legacy: John de Lancie
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- Duration: 11:48
- Published: 07 Mar 2012
- Updated: 04 May 2012
Curtis Directors' Musical Legacy Series: John de Lancie (1977 to 1985). A 1958 recording of Mr. de Lancie performing Samuel Barber's Summer Music with The Philadelphia Quintet (Robert Cole, flute; John de Lancie, oboe; Anthony Gigliotti, clarinet; Mason Jones, horn; Sol Schoenbach, bassoon).
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Curtis Symphony Orchestra Feb 14
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- Duration: 1:58
- Published: 18 Feb 2011
- Updated: 28 Jan 2012
Photos and music from the Curtis Symphony Orchestra's February 14 concert in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center.
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Curtis Star-Spangled Banner for the Eagles
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- Duration: 1:42
- Published: 01 Jan 2008
- Updated: 16 Mar 2012
Performers from the Curtis Institute of Music Star-Spangled Banner at the Philadelphia Eagles, Dec. 9, 2007, 1:00 PM Karen Jesse, Soprano Marquita Raley, Alto Dominic Armstrong, Tenor Kevin Ray, Bass Rachel Serber, Trumpet Stanford Thompson, Trumpet Rebekah Daley, Horn Ryan Seay, Trombone Chris Guilfoyle, Bass Trombone Gabe Globus-Hoenich, Percussion Patricia Franceschy, Percussion Mari Yoshinaga, Percussion Teddy Abrams, Conductor/Arranger
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Classical Guitar comes to Curtis
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- Duration: 1:37
- Published: 11 Mar 2011
- Updated: 14 Mar 2012
David Starobin and Jason Vieaux discuss teaching and the classical guitar program beginning at Curtis
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Live From Curtis
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- Duration: 5:47
- Published: 29 Apr 2010
- Updated: 20 Nov 2011
Our "Live From Curtis" Series features a wide range of virtuosic performances by some of the finest young talent in the world. This series captures the unique and intimate atmosphere of The Curtis Institute of Music, where a distinctive "learn by doing" educational approach has allowed us to showcase a variety of styles in each program. Live from Curtis includes a mix of performances, including chamber music, opera excerpts, and orchestral selections, simulcast in high-definition and enhanced definition formats and available to our subscribers as a series of live and encore performances.
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Curtis Directors' Musical Legacy: Josef Hofmann
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- Duration: 9:29
- Published: 15 Dec 2011
- Updated: 04 May 2012
The Directors' Musical Legacy is a special initiative of Curtis's "Appassionato" season, reflecting the school's extraordinary heritage. Over the course of several weeks, Curtis celebrates the musical impact of each director by releasing exemplary recordings of their music-making. Pianist Josef Hofmann was director of Curtis from 1927 to 1938.
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Oliver Aldort, Lalo Cello Concerto, Curtis - Field Concert Hall
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- Duration: 12:19
- Published: 03 Apr 2012
- Updated: 10 Apr 2012
Oliver Aldort performing the first movement of the Lalo Cello Concerto in the Field Concert Hall at the Curtis Institute.
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A Clarinet Audition at Curtis
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- Duration: 5:17
- Published: 22 Nov 2010
- Updated: 05 Feb 2012
Two students auditioning for undergraduate clarinet programs run into one another at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, PA.
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Curtis Holiday Party 2007 Reed Video Part I
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- Duration: 6:31
- Published: 19 Dec 2007
- Updated: 25 Apr 2012
A bassoonist's struggle to find the "rite" reed takes an unexpected turn. Featuring music from the Caliban Bassoon Quartet's CD, "BassOOnatics!" To be continued...
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Sibelius violin concerto in D minor--Zeyu Victor Li. 15 years old.
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- Duration: 31:44
- Published: 09 Nov 2011
- Updated: 06 May 2012
Zeyu Victor Li. 15 Years old. Study in Curtis institute of music school with Aaron Rosand. Sibelius violin concerto in D minor.
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Bassoon Workshop at Curtis
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- Duration: 1:19
- Published: 21 Feb 2012
- Updated: 14 Apr 2012
Learn secrets of the trade from world-renown bassoonists Daniel Matsukawa and Christopher Millard. Focus on your bassoon-playing for four days filled with coaching, master classes, reed sessions, and more at the Curtis Institute of Music. June 14 -- 17, 2012 summerprograms.curtis.edu
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Curtis Directors' Musical Legacy: Randall Thompson
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- Duration: 7:08
- Published: 17 Jan 2012
- Updated: 18 Jan 2012
Curtis Directors' Musical Legacy Series: Randall Thompson (1939 to 1941). The first movement from Randall Thompson's Symphony No. 2 with Fritz Reiner and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in Casimir Hall at Curtis.
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| Name | The Curtis Institute of Music |
|---|---|
| Image name | Curtis.png |
| Established | 1924 |
| Type | Private |
| Endowment | $130.5 million |
| President | Roberto Díaz |
| Director | Roberto Díaz |
| Students | 167 |
| City | 1726 Locust Street Philadelphia |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| Country | United States |
| Address | 1726 Locust Street |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | curtis.edu }} |
The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, and Professional Studies Certificate in Opera. According to statistics compiled by ''U.S. News & World Report'', it has the lowest acceptance rate of any college or university, making it the most selective institution of higher education in the United States.
History
It was established in 1924 by Mary Louise Curtis Bok, and was named in honor of her father, Cyrus Curtis. After consulting with musician friends including Josef Hofmann and Leopold Stokowski on how best to help musically gifted young people, Bok purchased three mansions on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square and had them joined and renovated. She established a faculty of prominent performing artists and eventually left the institute with an endowment of US$12 million.
Admission
The institute has served as a training ground for orchestral players to fill the ranks of the Philadelphia Orchestra, although composers, organists, pianists, and singers are offered courses of study as well.All pupils attend on full scholarship, and admission is extremely competitive. Besides composers, conductors, organists, and pianists, only enough students are admitted to fill a single orchestra and an opera company. Accordingly, enrollment is in the range of 150 to 170 students. The acceptance rate is about one third that of Ivy League institutions such as Columbia University.
Administration
Past directors
Past directors of the institute have included:
Current administration
, Roberto Diaz is President and director of the Institute. Diaz is also a Curtis alumnus and faculty member. He was principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1996 to 2006 and is a member of the Diaz Trio., Otto-Werner Mueller is the conductor of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra.
Notable alumni
Many of its alumni have gone on to notable careers including:A–L
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References
External links
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| Name | Steve Mackey |
|---|---|
| Background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Birth name | Stephen Patrick Mackey |
| Alias | Smackey, Smackeroni and cheese, Smackington, Smackers, Stovetop Mackeroni, Mackerel |
| Born | November 10, 1966Sheffield, England |
| Genre | Alternative rockIndie rockBritpop |
| Occupation | Musician, Singer-songwriter, keyboardist, guitarist |
| Years active | mid-1980s–present |
| Associated acts | PulpCavemen |
| Website | }} |
Steve Mackey (born Stephen Patrick Mackey; 10 November 1966) is a British musician and record producer best known for playing bass guitar in the band Pulp. He also played bass for Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker in the latter's solo career, and worked as a songwriter and producer with artists such as M.I.A. and Florence + the Machine.
Personal life
Mackey was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. In his early years he attended Hucklow First and Middle Schools with friend Richard Hawley. They would later play together as members of Pulp. He schooled at Hinde House Comprehensive in Sheffield before undertaking further studies at Richmond College of Further Education. He moved to London in 1988 to pursue an interest in film-making and graduated from London's Royal College of Art, in 1992, MA Film.
Pulp
Joining Pulp in 1989, he played on ''Separations'', released on Fire Records. He continued to write, record and tour with the band as they found success in the 1990s. He performed on all subsequent albums recorded including ''Intro'', ''His 'n' Hers'', ''Different Class'', ''This Is Hardcore'' and ''We Love Life''.
Further career
Forming a songwriting/production partnership with Ross Orton (known as Cavemen), he met Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.) and co-wrote and produced "Galang" and "Sunshowers" which led to MIA securing a deal with Interscope Records and releasing "Arular". They worked together again on "Bird Flu" from her subsequent album ''Kala''. Mackey and Orton continued to produce and remix for artists including Kelis, Arcade Fire, Cornershop, The Kills and The Horrors. Mackey also produced songs for Florence and the Machine's debut album "Lungs", including "Kiss With a Fist", "Girl With One Eye" and " Swimming" and also The Long Blondes debut album ''Someone to Drive you Home''. During this period he continued to record and tour with Jarvis Cocker, in 2006 for his debut solo album for Rough Trade Records (''Jarvis'') and in 2008 recording the album ''Further Complications'' at Electrical Studios, Chicago with Steve Albini.
Other projects
In 2005 Mackey played a cameo role as one of The Weird Sisters, rock band in the film of ''Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire''. The fictitious group also featured Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway of Radiohead and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker. In 2006, Mackey and Cocker curated an acclaimed 2 CD Compilation called ''The Trip'' featuring music from various eras including Moondog, Carl Orff, The Birthday Party, The Fall and the theme to Radio 4's Shipping Forecast. Mackey co-curated the music program of London's annual Frieze International Art Fair from 2003 to 2008 which included performances from Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sunn O))), Glenn Branca, and Rodney Graham.He lives in London with his son, Marley (born 1996) and wife, Katie Grand.
Discography
With Pulp
Studio albums
Compilations
UK singles
Singles
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As a songwriter/producer
Steve Mackey has appeared on the following albums as a Producer:
As a remixer
Steve Mackey is also known for his remixes, and he has remixed the following tracks (among others):
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| name | John de Lancie |
|---|---|
| birth date | March 20, 1948 |
| birth place | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| occupation | Actor |
| years active | 1976–present |
| children | Keegan de Lancie, Owen de Lancie }} |
John de Lancie (born March 20, 1948) is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring role as Q on the various ''Star Trek'' series, and as Frank Simmons in ''Stargate SG-1''.
Personal life
De Lancie was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Andrea and John de Lancie, who was principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1954 to 1977, and in his time one of the best known oboists worldwide. As a child, he was diagnosed with dyslexia. He is married to actress-singer Marnie Mosiman, and they have two sons, Keegan and Owen.
Acting career
De Lancie was the narrator for a General Motors (GM) commercial in the early 1980s that featured a robot that drops a bolt and talks about the future of the auto industry.
Television
He has appeared in numerous television shows. In 1988 was assassin Matthew Drake in the premiere episode of the Mission: Impossible revival series. He also starred in a first season episode of ''MacGyver'', "The Escape", where he played a gunrunner. In 1997, de Lancie lent his voice to ''The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest'' as Doctor Quest. He also recently appeared on AMC's ''Breaking Bad''. From 2001–2002, he was Agent Dark Booty on the television series ''Invader Zim''. He will also star in the eighth epiosde of Torchwood, Miracle Day.|- | | The Six Million Dollar Man | | |- | | Hill Street Blues | | |- | | The Thorn Birds | | |- | | Nero Wolfe | | |- | 2000 | The West Wing | Al Kiefer | |- | 2000 | Sports Night | Bert Stors | |- | | Judging Amy | | |- | | The New Twilight Zone | | |- | | The Closer | | |- | | Legend | | |- | | L.A. Law | | |- | 1986 | MacGyver | Brian Ashford | |- | | Picket Fences | | |- | | Civil Wars | | |- | | The Practice | | |- | 2004-2005 | Charmed | Odin | |- | | Murder, She Wrote | | |- | 2001-2002 | Stargate SG-1 | Colonel Frank Simmons / Goa'uld | |- | 1978 | Battlestar Galactica | | |- | | Emergency! | | |- | | Touched by an Angel | | |- | | Law & Order: LA | | |- | 1982-1986 | Days of our Lives | Eugene Bradford | |- | 2009-2010 | Breaking Bad | Donald Margolis | |- | 2011 | Torchwood: Miracle Day | Agent Allen Shapiro
''Star Trek''
De Lancie is best known for his portrayal of the iconic, all-powerful Q, a recurring character on ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''. Q is one of few characters appearing in multiple shows of the Star Trek franchise: in eight (Encounter at Farpoint, Hide and Q, Q Who, Deja Q, Qpid, True Q, Tapestry, All Good Things...) episodes of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (Season 1, Episode 7), and in three episodes of ''Star Trek: Voyager'' (Death Wish, The Q and the Grey, Q2). De Lancie's son, Keegan de Lancie, appeared with his father as Q's son in ''Star Trek: Voyager'''s seventh season episode "Q2".
Other television roles
De Lancie co-starred in ''Star Trek'' writer Michael Piller's short-lived creation ''Legend'' as eccentric scientist Janos Bartok. He had a recurring role as NID Colonel Frank Simmons on ''Stargate SG-1''. He has also appeared as Beka Valentine's Uncle Sid in Gene Roddenberry's ''Andromeda'', as pollster Al Kiefer on ''The West Wing'', and as an Elder on ''Charmed''.He voiced the villain Sinestro on the "The Green Loontern" episode of ''Duck Dodgers'', as well as French mercenary L'Etranger on ''Max Steel''.
De Lancie plays air traffic controller and father Donald Margolis on the AMC series ''Breaking Bad''.
He played a middleman who dealt with dangerous arms dealers in CBS's ''The Unit'' during the fourth season of that show.
He played as a judge on Law and Order: LA.
Films
His film credits include ''The Hand that Rocks the Cradle'', ''Get Smart, Again!'', ''The Fisher King'', ''Bad Influence'', ''The Onion Field'', ''Taking Care of Business'', ''Fearless'', ''Arcade'', ''Multiplicity'', ''Woman on Top'', ''Nicolas'', ''Good Advice'', ''Patient 14'', ''The Big Time'', ''Teenius'', ''Pathology'', ''Evolver'', and ''Reign Over Me'', ''You Lucky Dog'' (1998). He also had a small voice part in ''Saving Private Ryan'' (1998)
Stage career
He has been a member of The American Shakespeare Festival, The Seattle Repertory Company, South Coast Repertory, The Mark Taper Forum, and the Old Globe where he recently performed Arthur Miller's ''Resurrection Blues''.De Lancie has performed and directed for Los Angeles Theater Works, the producing arm of KCRW-FM and National Public Radio, where the series ''The Play's the Thing'' originates. He recently returned from a national tour of the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Star Trek: The Music was a multi-city tour with Robert Picardo. De Lancie and Picardo narrate around the orchestral performance, explaining the history of the music in ''Star Trek''.
Audio dramas
De Lancie is co-owner, with Leonard Nimoy, of Alien Voices, a production company devoted to the radio-style dramatization of classic science fiction. De Lancie produced, co-wrote, and directed audio dramatizations of: ''The Time Machine'', ''A Journey to the Center of the Earth'', ''The Lost World'', ''The Invisible Man'', and ''The First Men in the Moon''; as well as three television specials for the Sci-Fi Channel. In addition, he played the lead in Yuri Rasovsky's award-winning audio version of ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari''. He also narrated the show "Black Holes", an educational show produced by the Clark Planetarium for use in full dome planetarium star theaters.
Video games
De Lancie provided the voice of the character Antonio Malochio in the PC game Interstate '76, as the angel Trias in the video game ''Planescape: Torment'', and as Dr. Death in ''Outlaws''. He also played Q in the PC Video Games ''Star Trek: Borg'' and ''Star Trek: The Game Show''.
Music career
In the world of music, John de Lancie, Jr. has performed as narrator with a number of major orchestras including: Kurt Masur, Sir Colin Davis and the New York Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra; the National Symphony Orchestra and The Montreal Symphony. His repertoire includes: ''Peer Gynt'', ''King David'', ''The Bourgeois Gentleman'', ''Lincoln Portrait'', ''St. Joan'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''Oedipus Rex'', ''The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'', ''The Soldier's Tale'', ''The Nightingale'', and ''Peter and the Wolf''.De Lancie was the host of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Symphonies for Youth for four years where he helped conceptualize the student concerts "Don't Educate–Stimulate". In addition, he's written and directed ten symphonic plays. These ninety-minute programs are fully staged productions with orchestra; titles include ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''The Bourgeois Gentleman'', and ''The Abduction from the Seraglio''. They were produced with the Milwaukee, St. Paul Chamber, Ravinia, Los Angeles, and Pasadena Orchestras.
De Lancie makes frequent appearances with the Pasadena Symphony, which holds concerts of orchestrated music in the Fall and the Spring. In spring 2004, he gave pre-concert lectures where the symphony is held in Pasadena, California, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.
He was also the writer, director, and host of ''First Nights'', an adult concert series at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic which explored the life and music of Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mahler, Schumann, and Prokofiev. These were fully integrated, fully staged productions. John de Lancie has performed and directed for L.A. Theater Works, the producing arm of KCRW-FM and National Public Radio, where the series ''The Plays the Thing'' originates. He recently returned from a national tour of the Scopes Monkey Trial. He was co-owner, with Leonard Nimoy, of Alien Voices; a production company devoted to the dramatization of classic science fiction.
In 2006, de Lancie made his opera directorial debut with The Atlanta Opera performing Puccini's "Tosca" on May 18 to May 21.
In September 2007, de Lancie provided dramatic narration to the Cleveland Orchestra's performance of Peer Gynt. He performed this role again with the National Symphony Orchestra in June 2008, under the direction of Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Writing career
De Lancie co-wrote the Star Trek novel ''I, Q'' with Peter David, as well as co-writing the novel ''Soldier of Light'' with Tom Cool. He also was the writer for the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation Annual'' #1 DC comic book story "The Gift."
Filmography
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| 1979 in film | 1979 | The Onion Field (film)>The Onion Field'' | LAPD Lieutenant #2 |
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Josef Casimir Hofmann (originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann; January 20, 1876February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American virtuoso pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.
''Piano Playing: A Little Book of Simple Suggestions'' (1907) — e-text
''Piano Questions Answered'' (1909)
''Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered'' (1920, compilation of the first two books) — e-text, ISBN 0486233626 and ISBN 1150030674
Josef Hofmann Collection, International Piano Archives, University of Maryland
Piano Rolls (The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation)
Jan Żdżarski: Józef Hofmann Geniusz zapomniany, Wydawnictwo STO, www.sto.com.pl
Historical Marker Database Josef Hofmann Historical Marker, Aiken, SC
Biography
Josef Hofmann was born in Podgórze, near Cracow (Kraków), Austria-Hungary, (now Poland) in 1876. His father was the composer, conductor and pianist Kazimierz Hofmann, and his mother the singer Matylda Pindelska. A child prodigy, he gave a debut recital in Warsaw at the age of 5, and a long series of concerts throughout Europe and Scandinavia, culminating in a series of concerts in America in 1887-88 that elicited comparisons with young Mozart and young Mendelssohn. Anton Rubinstein took Hofmann as his only private student in 1892 and arranged the debut of his pupil in Hamburg, Germany in 1894. Hofmann toured and performed extensively over the next 50 years as one of the most celebrated pianists of the era. In 1913, he was presented with a set of keys to the city of St. Petersburg, Russia.As a composer, Hofmann published over one hundred works, many of those under the pseudonym ''Michel Dvorsky'', including two piano concertos and ballet music. He made the United States his base during World War I and became a US citizen in 1926. In 1924, he became the first head of the piano department at the inception of the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, and became the Institute's director in 1927 and remained so until 1938. He was instrumental in recruiting illustrious musicians such as Efrem Zimbalist, Fritz Reiner, Marcella Sembrich, and Leopold Auer as Curtis faculty. Hofmann's pupils included Jean Behrend, Abram Chasins, Abbey Simon, Shura Cherkassky, Ezra Rachlin, Nadia Reisenberg (see ), and Harry Kaufman. While not a pupil, Jorge Bolet benefited from Hofmann's interest. In 1937, the 50th anniversary of his New York debut performance was celebrated with gala performances including a "Golden Jubilee" recital at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. In 1938 he was forced to leave the Curtis Institute of Music over financial and administrative disputes. In the years from 1939 to 1946, his artistic eminence deteriorated, in part due to family difficulties and alcoholism. In 1946, he gave his last recital at Carnegie Hall, home to his 151 appearances, and retired to private life in 1948. He spent his last decade in Los Angeles in relative obscurity, working on inventions and keeping a steady correspondence with associates.
As an inventor, Hofmann had over 70 patents, and his invention of pneumatic shock absorbers for cars and airplanes was commercially successful from 1905 to 1928. Other inventions included a windscreen wiper, a furnace that burned crude oil, a house that revolved with the sun, a device to record dynamics (: U.S. patent number 1614984) in reproducing piano rolls that he perfected just as the roll companies went out of business, and piano action improvements adopted by the Steinway Company (: U.S. patent number 2263088).
Hofmann died of pneumonia on February 16, 1957. He was survived by four children. His second wife, Betty Short, had previously been one of his pupils.
The Josef Hofmann Piano Competition, co-sponsored by the American Council for Polish Culture and the University of South Carolina Aiken was established in his honor in 1994.
Career as a child prodigy
Anton Rubinstein heard the seven-year old Hofmann play Beethoven's C Minor Piano Concerto in Warsaw and declared him to be an unprecedented talent (see and ). At Rubinstein's suggestion, German impresario Hermann Wolff offered career management and to send the boy on a European tour, but Hofmann's father refused to let the boy travel until he was nine years old. At that age, Hofmann gave concerts in Germany, France, Holland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Great Britain.In 1887, an American tour was arranged and after three months of performances that included fifty recitals, seventeen of which were at the Metropolitan Opera House, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children stepped in, citing the boy's fragile health. However, as per the contract that had paid Hofmann $10,000, he was legally obliged to complete the tour. The contract was rendered void by Alfred Corning Clark who donated $50,000 and, in turn, legally forbade Hofmann to perform in public until he turned 18 years old. The final segment of the tour was cancelled and the family returned to Potsdam, outside Berlin. This marked the end of Hofmann's child prodigy years. (See and for details.) At the age of 12, young Josef Hofmann was probably the first pianist of note to record on Edison's phonograph; Hans von Bülow recorded a Chopin Mazurka on Edison's improved phonograph the same year, i.e., 1888.
Education in music
Clark's donation enabled Hofmann to continue individual study in science and mathematics, and he continued to take music lessons from Heinrich Urban (composition)and with the pianist and composer Moritz Moszkowski. In 1892, Rubinstein accepted Hofmann as his only private pupil, the two meeting for 42 sessions in Dresden's Hotel d'Europe. Initial lessons, a week apart, included ten Bach Preludes and Fugues and two Beethoven sonatas, from memory. Hofmann was never allowed to bring the same composition twice, as Rubinstein said as a teacher he would probably forget what he told the student during the previous lesson. Rubinstein never played for Hofmann, but gave ample evidence of his pianistic outlook during many recitals the boy heard. In a three-day period Hofmann heard in Berlin's new Bechstein Hall recitals by Hans von Bülow, Johannes Brahms and Rubinstein, and commented on their radically different playing. Rubinstein arranged Hofmann's adult debut on March 14, 1894, in Hamburg's Symphonic Assembly Hall, the piece being Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, with the composer conducting. After the concert, Rubinstein told Hofmann there would be no more lessons, and they never saw each other again. In later years Hofmann referred to his relationship with the titanic Russian master as the "most important event in my life.".
Hofmann at the end of his career
By the early 1930s, Hofmann had become an alcoholic but he retained exceptional pianistic command throughout this decade; Rudolf Serkin and a young Glenn Gould have recounted magical impressions created on them by Hofmann's concerts in mid-and-late 1930s. After his departure from the Curtis institute in 1938, a combination of his drinking, marital problems and a loss of interest in performing caused a rapid deterioration in his artistic abilities. Commenting on Hofmann's sharp decline, Sergei Rachmaninoff said, "Hofmann is still sky high ... the greatest pianist alive ''if'' he is sober and in form. Otherwise, it is impossible to recognize the Hofmann of old". Oscar Levant wrote, "one of the terrible tragedies of music was the disintegration of Josef Hofmann as an artist. In his latter days, he became an alcoholic. …[H]is last public concert … was an ordeal for all of us".
Technique and style
Hofmann's views on technique and musicianship are explained in his book ''Piano Playing with Questions Answered''. He had small but exceptionally strong hands. Steinway eventually built for him a custom keyboards with slightly narrower keys (pianist/critic Stephen Hough has commented on how Hofmann's mechanical understanding of the Steinway piano action set him apart from all other pianists.) His concert instruments had subtle action changes for faster repetition, two pedals rather than three (he liked the older Steinway trap work geometry), faultless regulation, and were accompanied on tours by his own recital chair, built with a short folding back and a 1½" slope from rear to front. After playing Hofmann's special concert instrument in the Steinway New York basement, Gunnar Johannsen reported that the piano had the biggest sonority of any he had ever tried.Unlike Rubinstein, Hofmann sat quietly at the piano, striking the keys in a kneading manner. His finger staccato was at the time unequaled, as was his orchestral sonority. According to his student Nadia Reisenberg, he continuously used a combination of finger pedalling and foot pedalling. New York Times critic Harold C. Schonberg said Hofmann had all of Leopold Godowsky's technique, a claim approved by Godowsky himself. By his own admission, Sergei Rachmaninoff, in his 40s, prepared for a career as a concert pianist by practicing over 15 hours a day with the goal of attaining the level of Hofmann's technique. When pianist Ralph Berkowitz was asked if Vladimir Horowitz had the greatest technique of all the pianists he had heard, Berkowitz replied that Horowitz indeed was the supreme master of the technical parts of performance, but one older era pianist was his equal - Hofmann.
Hofmann's approach and style can be summarized by his motto "an aristocrat never hurries". He often stated that Rubinstein and Moriz Rosenthal were the only pianists that influenced his art, and admired singers Mattia Battistini and Marcella Sembrich (see and ). He adopted a more demonstrative style in live performances but a subtle and restrained style for his studio recordings; in both cases, he mostly adhered to the printed score, occasionally doubling left-hand octaves, and shunned sentimentality. He put spontaneity rather than structure foremost and admitted to Rachmaninoff that "I do not know how to build a composition ... occasionally, it happens to sound well". Schonberg wrote that among Hofmann's contemporaries, only Godowsky had the finish and refinement of Hofmann but lacked Hofmann's color, fire, and "red blood", while only Ferruccio Busoni and Rachmaninoff were ever mentioned by contemporaries as Hofmann's equals. After hearing a performance of Chopin's B minor Sonata by Hofmann, Rachmaninoff cut that piece from his own repertoire saying "not since Anton Rubinstein have I heard such titanic playing".Suggested examples illustrating Hofmann's style: , , , , , , , , , , , , , and (dedicated to him by Sigismond Stojowski).
Repertoire, Musical Ear, and Memory
Hofmann's repertoire was mostly confined to music written before the start of the 20th century. Much like Rubinstein's seven historic recitals of 1885, he gave 21 consecutive concerts in St. Petersburg without repeating a single piece, playing 255 different works from memory during that marathon cycle in 1912–1913. In the diary his wife kept during his 1909 Russian tour, she mentions his raising his eyebrows when he saw Brahms' ''Handel Variations'' on a program—a piece he had not played or even looked at for two and a half years. He played the work at the concert without hesitation. Maurice Aronson, who served as Leopold Godowsky's assistant, recalled Hofmann learning Godowsky's ''Fledermaus'' transcription. Godowsky and Hofmann met in Berlin in 1900, becoming friends until Godowsky's death in 1938. Hofmann would visit Godowsky's studio and listen while Godowsky was composing ''Fledermaus''. A week later Hofmann visited Godowsky again and played the entire transcription, and he had never seen the music. Godowsky, in fact, had not yet written it down. Schonberg has added that Godowsky's ''Fledermaus'' is one of the most resourceful and complicated stunts ever written for the piano. In the 1940s he recorded for the Bell Telephone Hour radio programs which include Hofmann's only filmed appearance, playing Rachmaninoff's Prelude Op. 3 No. 2. Gregor Benko has remarked that Hofmann should not have appeared on many of the Bell Telephone Hour broadcasts since, by this time, his pianistic control had deteriorated considerably though the tonal palette was still immense and the phrasing provocative (see and ). Hofmann's student Jeanne Behrend, after first hearing the recordings from 1940 to 1946, stated "well, it's his playing, but nothing like what we heard in the 1920's."Cylinders recorded c. 1890 for Thomas Edison were some of the earliest recordings of classical music and were lost during World War I. Four cylinders made in Russia in 1895–1896, with music by Mendelssohn, Louis Brassin and Rubinstein, have been recently discovered and issued on CD. He made two series of reproducing piano rolls, including in 1913 23 pieces for Welte-Mignon but did not trust rolls as an accurate representation of his playing. Hofmann recorded acoustic discs from 1912 to 1923 for Columbia and Brunswick, but felt the representation of his chaste and prismatic tonal palette was not captured. He did experiment with short studio test recordings in 1935, and in retirement in California experimented with piano string electrical pickups and designing an additional spruce soundboard under the piano lid. At least three of his concerts in 1930's were recorded live. These concert recordings exhibit an older Hofmann (age 60-62) in public just prior to the sharp decline in his pianistic command, and include sensational readings of Chopin's G-Minor Ballade, Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise, A-Flat Waltz (Op. 42) and F-Minor Ballade. All of these recordings have recently been published on compact discs under the auspices of Gregor Benko and audio restorer Ward Marston (see ).
Controversial stature
Harold C. Schonberg has argued that Hofmann was the most flawless and possibly the greatest pianist of the 20th century. HMV and RCA unsuccessfully pursued recording projects with Hofmann in the 1930s. Rachmaninoff dedicated his Piano Concerto No. 3 (1909) to Hofmann although Hofmann disliked it and never played it. Older generation critics such as James Huneker labeled Hofmann the "king of pianists", and Samuel Chotzinoff called him the "greatest pianist of our time." Contemporaries such as Rachmaninoff, Ignaz Friedman, Josef Lhévinne, and Godowsky considered Hofmann to be, overall, the greatest pianist of their generation, but the acclaim was not so universal from the next generation of pianists. In his autobiography Arthur Rubinstein criticized Hofmann as someone who took interest in only the mechanics of music and not in its heart or spirituality, and commented that at the end of Hofmann's career "he was left with nothing after his technique left him". Claudio Arrau dismissed Hofmann (along with Paderewski) as someone who only happened to be very famous and said "I didn't know what to do with him". Sviatoslav Richter, after listening to a Hofmann RCA test pressing of the Scherzo from Beethoven's Sonata in E-flat, Op. 31, No. 3, considered the older pianist to be technically "stunning", while György Sándor has called him the greatest of all 20th century pianists in terms of music, interpretation, and technique. Vladimir Horowitz called Hofmann a very good pianist but a second rate musician. Hofmann's own student Shura Cherkassky compared Horowitz favorably with Hofmann as follows: "Hofmann was possibly the greater musical mind. But, I think, Horowitz was the greater pianist, the greater virtuoso—he somehow appealed to the whole world. Hofmann could not communicate on that level".
Bibliography
Hofmann's books were based on his frequent articles in the ''Ladies' Home Journal'':
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Early years
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Business career
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Other positions
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Canadian connection
Li immigrated to Canada and spent time with investment bank Wood Gundy Incorporated, a company later acquired by CIBC. He is the Co-Chairman of Canadian-based Husky Energy.
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