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Crosby was visiting her friend Phoebe Knapp as the Knapp home was having a large pipe organ installed. The organ was incomplete, so Mrs. Knapp, using the piano, played a new melody she had just composed. When Knapp asked Crosby, "What do you think the tune says?", Crosby replied, "Blessed assurance; Jesus is mine." [1]
Avanzini is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anna Avanzini (1917–2011), Italian gymnast; Bartolomeo Avanzini (1608–1658), Italian architect; Daniela Avanzini (born 2004), American dancer and member of global girl group, KATSEYE
The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument was during the first decades of the 20th century. Early jazz violinists included Eddie South , who played violin with Jimmy Wade 's Dixielanders in Chicago; Stuff Smith ; Claude "Fiddler" Williams , who played with Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy.
Jerry Goodman was born on March 16, 1949, in Chicago, Illinois.His parents were both members of the string section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his uncle was the noted composer and jazz pianist Marty Rubenstein.
The Red Violin is the original soundtrack album on the Sony Classical label of the 1999 film The Red Violin (original title: Le violon rouge), starring Carlo Cecchi, Sandra Oh and Samuel L. Jackson. The original score and songs were composed by John Corigliano [4] and performed by Philharmonia Orchestra with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting.
The celebrated violinist Joachim, who also played viola, married Amalie Schneeweiss in 1863. She appeared as a contralto singer under the stage name Amalie Weiss. Both were friends of Brahms, who composed the song "Geistliches Wiegenlied" for the occasion of their wedding; he withdrew it but sent it again a year later for the baptism of their son, named Johannes after Brahms.
"The Touch of the Master's Hand", also sometimes called The Old Violin, [1] is a Christian poem written in 1921 [2] by Myra Brooks Welch. [3]The poem tells of a battered old violin that is about to be sold as the last item at an auction for a pittance, until a violinist steps out of the audience and plays the instrument, demonstrating its beauty and true value.
White was among the first to play the violin in avant-garde jazz, and in the late 1960s became one of the first jazz violinists to play jazz rock fusion (with his band The Fourth Way). During his career, he played with musicians such as Sun Ra , Prince Lasha , McCoy Tyner , Eric Dolphy , Wes Montgomery , Pharoah Sanders , Kenny Dorham , Joe ...