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Conrad Oberon Johnson (November 15, 1915 – February 3, 2008) [1] was an American music educator, long associated with the city of Houston, who was inducted into the Texas Bandmasters Hall of Fame in 2000. Born in Victoria, Texas, Conrad Johnson was nine when his family moved to Houston.
Kashmere High School is located in a predominantly black neighborhood known as Kashmere Gardens in Houston, Texas.Music teacher Conrad O. Johnson attended an Otis Redding concert in 1967 and was inspired to translate the style of the concert into a program he could sustain at the high school in order to create opportunities for his student musicians, and thus the Kashmere Stage Band was born.
According to him, despite portraying Johnson as a "benign dictator", "[the film] represents a feast for the senses, a soulful celebration of the black musical renaissance of the late '60s and '70s". [11]
Excluding the Opry Square Dancers, who have sui generis membership status, there are currently 75 Grand Ole Opry members. Solo music artists make up 60 of the members, seven of whom have mostly retired from performing (Stu Phillips, Barbara Mandrell, Jeanne Pruett, Randy Travis, Ricky Van Shelton, Patty Loveless and Ronnie Milsap), but may make occasional appearances.
The following list of Bohemian Club members includes both past and current members of note. Membership in the male-only, private Bohemian Club takes a variety of forms, with membership regularly offered to new university presidents and to military commanders stationed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Regular, full members are usually wealthy and ...
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Benny Goodman (1909–1986) (Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, 1932–1952) Gordon Goodwin (born 1954) (Big Phat Band) Glen Gray (1900-1963) (Casa Loma Orchestra) (1927-1963) George Gee (George Gee Swing Orchestra; formerly known as the Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra)
Member, Pakistani Senate Robert Talton: 1971 Member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1993 to 2009; candidate for Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court in 2014 Republican primary election [279] Senfronia Thompson: 1996 Texas State Representative [280] Sylvester Turner: 1977 Texas State Representative, mayor of Houston [281]