Ad
related to: piano teachers of the 1960s and 50s pictures of men
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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).
Sam was initially opposed to young Leonard's interest in music and attempted to discourage his son's interest by refusing to pay for his piano lessons. Leonard then took to giving lessons to young people in his neighborhood. [30] One of his students, Sid Ramin, became Bernstein's orchestrator for West Side Story [31] and a lifelong beloved ...
[2] [3] Musical prodigies, they began performing as a piano duo while still in school. After graduating, they joined the Juilliard faculty. After graduating, they joined the Juilliard faculty. In 1947, they launched a full-time concert career, at first playing nightclubs, then quickly moving up to playing classical music with orchestral backing.
Władziu Valentino Liberace [nb 1] (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer and actor. [2] He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures and endorsements.
Harold Bauer taught many other prominent pianists in his day, including composer Viola Cole-Audet, [6] John Elvin, who was a piano professor at Oberlin College in Ohio [7] and Consuelo Elsa Clark, a piano teacher at the New York College of Music from 1918 to 1968 and the teacher of the composer Michael Jeffrey Shapiro.
Lucette Descaves (Professor of Piano, 1941–1976) Marcel Dupré (Professor of Organ, 1926–1955, Director 1954–1956) 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 ...
Cliburn's mother, a piano teacher and an accomplished pianist in her own right, discovered him playing at age three, mimicking one of her students, and arranged for him to start taking lessons. [2] Cliburn developed a rich, round tone and a singing-voice-like phrasing, having been taught from the start to sing each piece. [ 2 ]
At the age of seven, Ellington began taking piano lessons from Marietta Clinkscales. [7] Daisy surrounded her son with dignified women to reinforce his manners and teach him elegance. His childhood friends noticed that his casual, offhand manner and dapper dress gave him the bearing of a young nobleman, [12] so they began calling him "Duke ...