The nurse reveals that, as a precaution, she had swapped over the infant prince and her own son. Luiz is the rightful King of Barataria. Personalities | Arthur Sullivan | Turn of the Century | Opera ...
claims that the Mikado’s word is law. If he orders a man to be killed he is as good as dead. The Mikado finds this very satisfactory. Personalities | Arthur Sullivan | Turn of the Century | Opera ...
1842–1900 English composer Sullivan was a Chapel Royal chorister, the first-ever Mendelssohn scholar and a student of William Sterndale Bennett. He was already a composer of distinction when, in 1867, he collaborated with the playwright W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) in Cox and Box (1866). Their Trial by Jury (1875) set the seal on a historic partnership that spawned ...
W. S. Gilbert in England. It is their association with Richard D’Oyly Carte and the succession of operettas written for the Savoy Theatre that continue to ensure that Gilbert and Sullivan remain household names. Sullivan’s aim, however, after education at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Leipzig Conservatory, was to write serious music on serious ...
music, including the Maid of Orleans sonata. He founded the Bach Society (1849), conducted the Philharmonic Society (1856–66), and was Principal of the RAM (1866–75), where his students included Sullivan (1842–1900) and Parry. Recommended Recording: Piano Concertos, Malcolm Binns, London PO (cond) Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita) Introduction | Late Romantic | Classical Personalities | Georges Bizet | Late Romantic ...
Vocalion (including ‘Roll ’Em Pete’) but Joe moved over to Decca in 1940. He was a guest vocalist on jazz dates featuring the Varsity Seven, Benny Carter, Joe Sullivan and Art Tatum, and was paired with artists such as pianists Sammy Price and Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith on his own recordings. In the summer of 1941, Turner ...
numbers, ‘Listen To Me’ and ‘Rave On’. In the midst of this the band were touring heavily with a new bassist and guitarist, Joe B. Mauldin and Niki Sullivan – notably on the ‘Biggest Show Of Stars For ‘57’ package, with Chuck Berry, The Everlys and Fats Domino, amongst many others. The sessions at Clovis also ...
played around New Orleans during the early 1920s before departing to New York in 1928 to work with Alonzo Ross. He worked with Claude Hopkins, Lucky Millinder, Joe Sullivan and Zutty Singleton in the 1930s; with Teddy Wilson and Eddie Condon through the 1940s; and toured with Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars from 1955–58. He reunited with Condon in the 1960s ...
Eyes’s material, ‘Witchcraft’, but Frank was not quite so good with Elvis’ new single, ‘Stuck On You’. This was a far cry from his appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show when cameras were ordered to cut his youth-corrupting, pelvis-swivels from the shot. In April 1961, he appeared at a benefit gig for the US Navy, his ...
1864–1932, German Born in Glasgow, D’Albert’s parents were German, with French blood. D’Albert eventually took Swiss nationality but not before he had studied with Arthur Sullivan in London, Hans Richter in Vienna and Liszt in Weimar. D’Albert was a prolific composer and completed some 20 operas of widely differing styles and subjects. His most publicly successful work ...
(Goos’-taf Ma’-ler) 1860–1911 Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler bestrode the world of music at the end of the nineteenth century. ‘My time will come’, he remarked about his often misunderstood compositions. For Mahler the conductor, due recognition did come during his lifetime, but another half-century had to pass before a fully sympathetic appreciation of his creative achievement was possible ...
pupil Martinu. Recommended Recording: Asrael Symphony, Fairy Tale, Serenade for Strings, Czech PO (cond) Jiří Bělohlávek (Chandos) Introduction | Late Romantic | Classical Personalities | (Sir) Arthur Sullivan | Late Romantic | Classical ...
comedy duo went through several personnel changes during its four decades on the Grand Ole Opry. The original Lonzo And Oscar comprised two Kentucky-born brothers, Johnny (1917–67) and Rollin Sullivan (b. 1919). The Sullivans began performing on a Jackson, Tennessee radio station, and in 1945 started working as stage and studio back-up musicians for Eddy Arnold. In 1947 ...
, bass, drums, trumpet, vocals, b. 1963) Born Judge Kenneth Peterson in Buffalo, New York, this child prodigy keyboardist had played on The Ed Sullivan Show by the age of six. His father is soul bluesman James Peterson. At 17, Lucky became Little Milton’s bandleader and then played with Bobby Bland. In 1988 he ...
Alongside The Levellers and Chumbawumba, this long-lived punk folk band from Bradford have kept alive the tradition of rock protest songs married to listenable music. Justin ‘Slade The Leveller’ Sullivan (vocals, guitar), Stuart Morrow (bass, guitar) and Robb Heaton (drums) first launched their sonic assault on Margaret Thatcher with 1984’s Vengeance. An expedient alliance with EMI started a ...
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