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[2] [5] He took organ lessons, sang in choirs and tried the violin and trombone. [2] Around the age of 11, once he could read music, Hicks started playing the piano in church. [6] His development accelerated once his family moved to St. Louis, when Hicks was 14 and he settled on the piano. [2]
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.
A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Frankie Laine (at piano) and Patti Page, c. 1950 Harry Belafonte, 1954 This is a partial list of notable active and inactive bands and musicians of the 1950s . Musicians
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 ]
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.
Gladys Mills (née Jordan; 29 August 1918 – 24 February 1978), [1] known as Mrs. Mills, was an English pianist who was active in the 1960s and 1970s, and who released many records. Her repertoire included many sing-along and party tunes made popular in the music hall , generally in a stride piano technique, often in a tack piano style.
Bernstein (1918–1990) studied with teachers including Helen Coates, Aaron Copland, Heinrich Gebhard, Edward Burlingame Hill, Serge Koussevitzky, Walter Piston, Fritz Reiner, Rosario Scalero, Randall Thompson, and Isabelle Vengerova.