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Joseph W. Hermann is a leading American wind band conductor and educator and is currently Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. He is also the current President of the American Bandmasters Association.
Music for Montserrat was a benefit concert held on 15 September 1997 at the Royal Albert Hall.The event was organised by Sir George Martin, former producer for The Beatles and founder of Associated Independent Recording, to raise funds for the Caribbean island of Montserrat after a major volcanic eruption by the Soufrière Hills volcano earlier that year.
2010 - Music and Image - Atlantic Film Festival East Coast Music Association (Take 6), Dinuk Wijeratne, conductor (Warner Music Canada) 2011 - O Canada: A Celebration of Our National Anthem, Bernhard Gueller, conductor (CBC/Radio-Canada) 2012 - The Barra MacNeils with Symphony Nova Scotia (Live), Martin MacDonald, conductor (Fontana Records)
Its title was inspired by Herman's autobiography of the same name. The revue's original title was Tune the Grand Up . After its 1985 San Francisco premiere and several regional productions through the 1990s, the piece played in the West End in 1998 under the title The Best of Times , and Off-Broadway in 2003, titled Showtune .
Meyer was born in Berlin. He received his first piano lessons at the age of six and started composing at eleven. After finishing school, he worked as an apprentice at a bank, and in 1926 he started the advanced study of music at Heidelberg University, where in 1930 he completed his Ph.D. on the 17th-century chamber music of North German composers.
Matthew Martin (born 1976) is a choral conductor, composer, and organist. [1] He is one of the UK’s leading choral composers and is frequently commissioned to write for prominent ensembles, including the BBC Singers, the choirs of Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, Chester Cathedral, St John’s College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford.
He founded the Kantorei St. Martin and determined from the beginning to perform both old and new music in services, presenting in his first service music by Dieterich Buxtehude, Johann Walther (1755–1822), Hugo Distler and Joseph Marx, and in an Advent concert Bach's Magnificat and Stravinsky's Mass. [2] Ziegler founded in 1965 the ...
Herman Finck (4 November 1872 – 21 April 1939) [1] was a British composer and conductor of Dutch extraction.. Born Hermann Van Der Vinck [2] in London, he began his studies training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and established a career as the musical director at the Palace Theatre in London (from 1900 until 1920), [3] with whose orchestra he made many virtuoso recordings.