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Proust was not a musician, but his description of the music is sufficiently detailed for comparisons to be made with various violin sonatas which the author is known to have heard. One relevant example is the Violin Sonata in A major by César Franck, which was written in 1886. Franck's themes reappear in different movements of the sonata which ...
Josephine Augusta Trott (December 24, 1874 - March 2, 1950) was an American author, composer, and music educator who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Colin Shepherd. [1] Her violin pedagogy books are still in use today. [2] Trott was born in Wilmington, Illinois, to Dr. Stenson E. and Augusta J. Trott. [3]
Wyndore, composed in Alfriston in 1936 and inspired by an Aldous Huxley poem ("I have tuned my music to the trees"), [21] is a seven-minute song without words. [22] The first performance was organised by the Birkenhead Philharmonic Society on 16 February 1937, conducted by Coleridge-Taylor.
Jenny Oaks Baker (born Jenny June Oaks; May 27, 1975) [1] is an American violinist.She has been nominated for a Grammy Award, and is a former member of the National Symphony Orchestra.
On March 20, 2009, Tinsley appeared with former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville when she launched her poetry book Sonata Mulattica, about 19th-century violin virtuoso George Bridgetower; Tinsley is mentioned in the first poem in the book, "The Bridgetower". He composed and performed a musical piece for ...
Leonora Knatchbull, 5, appears on the newest season of 'The Crown.' All about the little girl, Penny, and her relationship with her godmother, Princess Diana.
Fetler's music, as he has described it, is “the merger of listener and music.” [2] Few recordings of Fetler's music exist, though in 2009, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra released an album of Fetler pieces. Works include Fetler's Three Poems by Walt Whitman, Capriccio, and Violin Concerto no. 2.
In the autumn of 1896, Eugène Ysaÿe, Ernest Chausson and their wives were holidaying at Sitges on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. [2] At a party hosted by the Catalan painter Santiago Rusiñol, [5] [2] Ysaÿe and Chausson's wife on piano gave an impromptu sight-read performance of Poème; local townspeople who overheard it demanded it be encored three times. [6]