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Gordon Charles Watson was born in Parkes, New South Wales in 1921. He served with the Australian Imperial Force for four years in World War II. [1]He studied piano under Laurence Godfrey Smith in Sydney, and later had advanced studies at Mills College, Oakland, California with Egon Petri (piano), [2] [3] [4] and Darius Milhaud (composition).
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) [1] was an American jazz pianist and composer.A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, [2] Powell's application of complex phrasing to the piano influenced both his contemporaries and later pianists including Walter Davis Jr., Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Barry Harris.
Abby Whiteside (Aug 27, 1881 Vermillion, South Dakota – Dec 10, 1956 Menlo Park, California [1]) was an American piano teacher. She challenged the finger-centric approach of much classical piano teaching and instead advocated a holistic attitude in which the arm and torso are the conductors of a musical image conceived first in the mind.
Other solo piano recordings that Tristano made in 1961 were not released until the 1970s. [71] Tristano and his wife formally divorced in 1962. [72] Their son, Steve, who was born in 1952, met his father only once after their initial 1956 separation. [72] Tristano married again in the early 1960s. [73]
The modern form of the piano, which emerged in the late 19th century, is a very different instrument from the pianos for which earlier classical piano literature was originally composed. The modern piano has a heavy metal frame, thick strings made of top-grade steel, and a sturdy action with a substantial touch weight.
Arthur Benjamin . Arthur Leslie Benjamin (18 September 1893 in Sydney – 10 April 1960 in London) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher.He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rumba (1938) and of the Storm Clouds Cantata, featured in both versions of the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man who Knew Too Much, in 1934 and 1956.
Mom's house had been the center of gatherings for relatives and friends who enjoyed her Italian cooking of manicottis, chicken cutlets and baked goods and then convened around her restored 1936 ...
Alphonse Duvernoy (Professor of Piano) Rolande Falcinelli (Professor of Organ, 1954–1986) Louise Farrenc (Professor of Piano, 1842–1873) César Franck (Professor of Organ, 1872–1890) Eugene Gigout (Professor of Organ, 1911–1925) Alexandre Guilmant (Professor of Organ, 1896–1911) Antoine Marmontel (piano) Yves Nat (pianist, 1890–1956)