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Meet “Nature Boy” composer Eden Ahbez, the LA outdoorsman who changed jazz history
The song "Nature Boy" was a number one hit for Nat King Cole in 1948, selling 1 million copies that year. Since then, the song has been performed and recorded by hundreds of artists from jazz and other genres, including Frank Sinatra, John…
Composer Carlisle Floyd has died aged 95
(Photo credit: Suzanne Plunkett / Associated press)
Floyd's first piano teacher was his mother; he also studied with Sidney foster and Rudolf Firkusny. A degree of Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Floyd received his…
Met returns with the first work by a black composer in its history
NEW YORK (AP) - “We bend, we don't break. We're wavering! ”Sings the choir in the second act of Terence Blanchard's“ Fire Shut Up in My Bones ”.This is how the nearly 4,000 spectators of the Metropolitan Opera felt as they watched Monday…
The Met Opera reopens with the black composer’s first historical performance
After an 18-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and prolonged labor disputes with its musicians and team, the Metropolitan Opera reopens on Monday with a historic debut - the first work by a black composer.
America's premier…
‘Respect’ Composer Kris Bowers Explains How Aretha Shaped Her Career
The Emmy-winning musician spoke with theGrio about his first meeting with the Queen of Soul and working with Jennifer Hudson.Kris bowers was intended to make film scores. Along with both parents in the television industry, the Los Angeles…
Terence Blanchard, the Met’s first black composer, sees opera for more people
(Bloomberg) - Karen Toulon hosts Black in Focus on Bloomberg Television. Here, she chats with Terence Blanchard, six-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer for film and television. On September 27, an opera he wrote based on the…
“The Mandalorian” Composer to Return for “The Book Of Boba Fett”
Ludwig Göransson, composer of The Mandalorian, will come back to score Star wars derivative series Boba Fett's book.
The Swedish composer, who won two Emmy Awards for his musical work on The Mandalorianhis first two seasons, started…
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Robert Prizeman, composer and conductor who wrote the theme tune of Songs of Praise and founded the…
Robert Prizeman, who died at the age of 69, was a composer, conductor and director of Libera, a boy's choir from the choir of St Philip's Church in Norbury, south London; he also worked on Songs of Praise, composing the musical theme of…
What was Roman music like? The composer recreates ancient sounds
What was Roman music like? The composer recreates ancient sounds
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