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Morton Gould was born in Richmond Hill, New York, United States. [1] He was recognized early as a child prodigy with abilities in improvisation and composition. His first composition was published at age six. Gould studied at the Institute of Musical Art in New York. His most important teachers were Abby Whiteside and Vincent Jones. [2]
Kurt Masur (German pronunciation: [ˈkʊʁt maˈzuːɐ̯]; 18 July 1927 – 19 December 2015) was a German conductor.Called "one of the last old-style maestros", [1] he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era.
He was also the first music supervisor of instrumental music in America in 1918 in Rochester, New York. [1] After a short time in Rochester, he was encouraged by Will Earhart to take a job at Morton High School in Richmond, Indiana to revive the outstanding school and community music program Earhart had developed there some years earlier. He ...
Mr. Conductor: The ever cheerful, 18-inch-tall conductor who regularly visits the Island of Sodor. He originated from the Shining Time Station television series. He was portrayed by Ringo Starr on the first series of Shining Time Station, and by George Carlin for the rest of the show, including its follow up Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales. Alec ...
Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. Herbert Vogel (August 16, 1922 – July 22, 2012) and Dorothy Vogel (born 1935), once described as "proletarian art collectors," [1] worked as civil servants in New York City for more than a half-century while amassing what has been called one of the most important post-1960s art collections in the United States, [2] mostly of minimalist and conceptual art. [3]
The term 'music director' is more common in the US and Canada, whereas 'principal conductor' or 'chief conductor' is more prevalent elsewhere. In German-speaking countries, the title of General Music Director ( Generalmusikdirektor / Generalmusikdirektorin ) is used for conductors who are the music director of multiple musical institutions in a ...
Britt Allcroft (born Hilary Mary Allcroft Coote; [1] 14 December 1943 – 25 December 2024) was an English director, producer, writer and voice actress. She was best known for adapting the Reverend Wilbert Awdry's The Railway Series in the form of the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (later re-titled Thomas & Friends).
Born on November 7, 1959, in Poughkeepsie, New York, Lockhart is the elder of two children born to Newton Frederick and Marilyn Jean (Woodyard) Lockhart, who worked as computer professionals. He grew up in nearby Wappingers Falls and was educated in the public schools of New York's Dutchess County. He began studying piano at age seven.