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The Pianist  (2002 film) The Pianist is a 2002 historical drama film co-produced and directed by Roman Polanski, scripted by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist, a World War II memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman.
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- In This Photo: Sophia Loren, Carlo Ponti, Andrea Meszaros Ponti. (L-R) Honoree Sophia Loren, conductor Carlo Ponti and violinist Andrea Meszaros Ponti attend the special tribute to Sophia Loren during the AFI FEST 2014 presented by Audi at Dolby Theatre on November 12, 2014 in Hollywood, California.
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- The Orchestra recorded several selections in 1967 with Jean Martinon conducting for RCA; and in 1984 with Judith Blegen and Florence Quivar as soloists, women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus (Margaret Hillis, director), and James Levine conducting for Deutsche Grammophon.
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Bob Fosse - Dancer and Choreographer One of the most influential men in jazz dance history, Bob Fosse created a unique dance style that is practiced in dance studios throughout the world. His amazing choreography continues to live on through several great Broadway musicals such as Cabaret, Damn Yankees and Chicago..
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The Pianist THE PIANIST is based upon Szpilman's memoirs of the same name. As Szpilman's family is sent off to a death camp a third of the way through THE PIANIST and never appears again, it would be tempting to call the film Adrien Brody's show all the way..
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- Magic of the musicals. Written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, for the musical Carousel, You’ll Never Walk Alone has been recorded in all styles of music over six decades by artists including Patti La Belle, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Placido Domingo and Tammy Wynette.
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- FOR TORONTO OPERETTA THEATRE'S ANNUAL concert of Zarzuelas de Espana, the creative team of TOT's artistic director Guillermo Silva-Marin, music director Jose Hernandez and choreographer Elena La Comadre extended Tomas Breton's successful 1897 one-act La Verbena de la Paloma into a full evening's entertainment by interpolating arias and dances from ...
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Franz Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No.1 in C One such piece is the Cello Concerto No. 1, written for cellist Joseph Weigl. It was a present from Haydn - one that was subsequently lost until 1961, and re-premiered by master-cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
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Composers Classical composer who profoundly influenced composers of the next century Franz Schubert Romantic composer who wrote the Art Song Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel
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Polish Film Composers A legendary musician – a composer, jazz piano player and one of the founders of the Polish jazz school. He composed music to over 70 films, but Rosemary’s Lullaby alone from Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby cemented Komeda a place in film history. And to think, he quit studying medicine to become a musician.
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- Piano Concerto in G major (2) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937 : France) Conductor: Pierre Boulez Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra Soloists: Pierre-Laurent Aimard Record label: Deutsche Grammophon Catalogue ID: 477 8770.
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- A notice in the Chronicle for Ellington’s Grace Cathedral concert. (Photo: San Francisco Library archives) SFJAZZ artistic director Randall Kline, who oversaw the Mercer Ellington-led 25th anniversary concert at Grace Cathedral in 1990, says that considering the racial tension of the era, outrage over the concert in 1965 is unsurprising.
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Ralph MacDonald dies at 67; Grammy-winning artist wrote âWhere Is the Loveâ and âJust the Two of Usâ Through Antisia and as an acclaimed percussionist, MacDonald worked with a who’s who of artists, including Amy Winehouse, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, Bette Midler, Diana Ross and Grover Washington Jr., for whom he wrote the hit “Mr. Magic.”.
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Carl Czerny Carl Czerny. Carl Czerny (German: [karl ˈtʃɛrni]; 21 February 1791 – 15 July 1857) was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works. His books of studies for the piano are still widely used in piano teaching.
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George Gershwin George Gershwin (/ˈɡɜrʃ.wɪn/ ; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.
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The Sting The Entertainer  by Scott Joplin, which was adapted for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch (and a top-ten chart single for Hamlisch when released as a single from the film's soundtrack). The film's success encouraged a surge of popular and critical acclaim for Joplin's work. The Sting was hugely successful at the 46th Academy Awards, being nominated for 10 Oscars and winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
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Pianist Mozart could be considered the first concert pianist as he performed widely on the piano. Composers Beethoven and Clementi from the classical era were also famed for their playing, as were, from the romantic era, Liszt, Brahms, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Rachmaninoff.
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The Pianist  ( 2002) In this adaptation of the autobiography The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jewish radio station pianist, sees Warsaw change gradually as World War II begins. Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, but is later separated from his family during Operation Reinhard.
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- Nelson is well known for his collaborations with pianist Jon Schmidt as The Piano Guys – most particularly in their mash-up arrangement of Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” and Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida,” a YouTube sensation. Steven Sharp Nelson. Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) March 07, 2014.
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- The History of Photography in Sound — Michael Finnissy. Consisting of 11 thematically linked sections lasting a total of five-and-a-half hours in full, English composer Michael Finnissy’s epic solo piano work The History of Photography in Sound is one of the classical music world’s longest ever compositions for piano.
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Ailey, Alvin In 1958 Ailey formed his own company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, of which he served as artistic director from its founding to 1980.
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- he completed An American in Paris a month before the work’s premiere. Walter Damrosch conducted the Carnegie Hall concert, which took place on December 13, 1928. In describing his An American in Paris, Gershwin observed: “This new piece, really a rhapsodic ballet, is written very freely and is the most modern music I’ve yet attempted.”
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The Phantom of the Opera Musical Supervisor: David Caddick; Conducted by David Caddick; Associate Conductor: Jack Gaughan and Jeffrey Huard; Concert Master: Louann Montesi; Violin: Louann Montesi, Fred Buldrini, Alvin E. Rogers, Gayle Dixon, David Davis, Abraham Appleman, Leonard Rivlin and Jan Mullen; Viola: Stephanie Fricker and Veronica Salas; Cello: Bonnie Hartman and ...
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Fred Katz, Who Married Cello to Jazz, Dies at 94 Fred Katz, a classically trained cellist who quite by accident helped elevate his instrument to unlikely stardom in jazz, died on Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif.
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- Cuban Overture. George Gershwin (1898-1937) The legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini once said that the symphonic scores of George Gershwin were the only real American music. Whatever hyperbole that comment entails, there is no doubt that Gershwin was an American original.
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- , owner of the National Broadcasting Company and RKO Pictures, to accept it. Two theaters were to be included in the complex, and Sam Rothafel (Roxy) was induced to leave his own Roxy Theater in 1931 to become general director of both.