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Alfred Reed (born as Alfred Friedman) (January 25, 1921 – September 17, 2005) was an American neoclassical composer, with more than two hundred published works for concert band, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble to his name.
This is a list of current and former bands of Sumerian Records, an American independent record label specializing in heavy-metal music. The company is based in Washington, D.C.; and Los Angeles, California.
Alfred Mann (April 28, 1917 – September 21, 2006), was an American musicologist who specialized in the history of Western musical theory. He was a professor of Musicology [5] at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. His parents were the portrait painter Wilhelm Mann and the well-known harpsichordist and musicologist Edith ...
Music was a normal part of social life in Mesopotamia [14] and was used in many secular contexts. [15] Music played important roles at funerals, [16] among royalty, [17] and was also depicted in relation to sports and sex. [18] Mesopotamian love songs, which represented a distinct genre of music, nevertheless shared features in common with ...
The New York Conservatory of Modern Music was a music school in New York City, founded soon after World War II [a] by principal Alfred Francis Sculco, [b] a professional trumpeter from Westerly, Rhode Island who attended the Juilliard School, and played with the big bands of Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Harry James.
Armenian Dances (Part I) was completed in the summer of 1972 and first performed by the University of Illinois Symphonic Band on January 10, 1973, at the College Band Directors National Association Convention in Urbana, Illinois. [1] The piece is dedicated to Dr. Harry Begian of Armenian descent and the director of that ensemble. It consists of ...
The Hounds of Spring is a concert overture for concert band, written by the American composer Alfred Reed in 1980. [1] Reed was inspired by the poem Atalanta in Calydon [2] (1865) by Victorian era English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, a recreation in modern English verse of an ancient Greek tragedy. According to Reed himself, the poem's ...
The Samaritan faith, which had previously enjoyed the status of religio licita, was virtually outlawed thereafter by the Christian Byzantine Empire; from a population once at least in the hundreds of thousands, the Samaritan community dwindled to tens of thousands. [84] The Samaritan population in Samaria did, however, survive the revolts.