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Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Amazon Music. Amazon Music (previously Amazon MP3) is a music streaming platform and digital music store operated by Amazon. As of January 2020, the service had 55 million subscribers. [2] It was the first music store to sell music without digital rights management (DRM) from the four major music labels (EMI, Universal, Warner, and Sony BMG ...
The Early Music Company was created in 2008 when the catalogue of King's Music was bought after fraudulent photocopier salesmen bankrupted the latter company. [1] Clifford and Elaine Bartlett had established King's Music in 1984, their first titles being a facsimile series of English trio sonatas. Having graduated from Magdalen College ...
Mills Music, Inc. (MMI) was the most prolific music publishing company of the 1920s. [4] In the 1920s and 1930s the company had a reputation for supporting and promoting black composers. [5][4] This began with the publication of more than 100 rags during the 1920s; an important early one being Zez Confrey 's "Kitten of the Keys" (1921). [4]
Disney Music Publishing (DMP) is a global music publishing company and is part of the Disney Music Group. [1][2] They publish multiple songwriters and producers including Dewain Whitmore, Daniel Armbruster, as well as Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, the songwriters of the Disney musical Frozen. [3][4]
Known for. First American publisher of secular music. Spouse. Elizabeth Aitken. John Aitken ( c. 1745 – September 8, 1831) [1] was a Scottish - American music publisher. For a period of over six years, he was the only publisher of sheet music in the United States and may have been the first American publisher of secular music as well.
Hal Leonard LLC (formerly Hal Leonard Corporation) is an American music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker. Currently headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it is the largest sheet music publisher in the world. [1]
Founding. [edit] The company was created as a result of what Jeff Bezoscalled his "regret minimization framework" – to avoid regretting, in his old age, not having tried to participate in the emerging internet with his own startup.[5] In 1994, Bezos left his job as a vice president at D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle ...