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At the age of 63, Dann joined the faculty of New York University in 1925, remaining until retirement in 1936. He founded the Department of Music Education and oversaw the first graduate work there in the subject. He continued to teach workshops and guest conduct festival choirs and state choirs around the country until shortly before his death.
He was named New York's Music Teacher of the Year in 1996. He released a record with trumpeter Ted Daniel on his own Homeboy label, and the album Music as a solo artist in 2009. Also in 2009, on French label Improvising Beings, Rigby released For Harriet with a quartet which included bagpiper player Calum MacCrimmon.
Born in East Harlem, New York, in his early teens, Alfonso {Fonzi} joined neighborhood vocal group, Shades of Jade and befriended a young Luther Vandross.Thornton and Vandross became soloists with Listen My Brother, the Apollo Theater’s 16 member artist development workshop and sang on camera during the second season of the children's show Sesame Street.
Pages in category "Musical duos from New York (state)" The following 145 pages are in this category, out of 145 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Songwriters from New York (state) (3 C, 781 P) Pages in category "Musicians from New York (state)" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 311 total.
Photograph of Frank Croxton published in the Lexington Herald Leader in 1905.. Frank Croxton (October 7, 1877 – September 4, 1949) was an American bass and voice teacher.A New York City–based vocalist, he had a career as a church singer in that city and was also active on both the local and national stage as a concert singer. [1]
Briggs was born in Manhattan, New York City on August 12, 1963, to Frank Briggs, Jr. and Ruthie Powell.Her father played saxophone and sang in a Doo-wop group, her grandfather played trumpet and piano, and many other members of her family were either musicians or singers.
The first significant conductor of the Mendelssohn Glee Club, Joseph Mosenthal, helped to popularize the group through his dramatic leadership and musical vision.. Mosenthal, who served for 30 years and composed several ambitious works for the Club, exhausted himself getting to rehearsal during a snowstorm in January 1896 and died on a sofa in Mendelssohn Hall, directly beneath his portrait by ...