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Frederick I. Sturm (March 21, 1951 – August 24, 2014) was a jazz composer, arranger and teacher. [1] Sturm studied at Lawrence University, the University of North Texas College of Music, and the Eastman School of Music. He played trombone [2] and performed with the jazz nonet Matrix from 1974 to 1977. He served as Director of Jazz Studies at ...
Robert John Lurtsema (November 14, 1931 – June 12, 2000) was a public radio broadcaster.. Lurtsema hosted the classical music show Morning Pro Musica on radio station WGBH (FM) in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1971 until his death in 2000.
Frederick Fennell /fəˈnɛl/ (July 2, 1914 – December 7, 2004) was an American conductor and one of the primary figures who promoted the Eastman Wind Ensemble as a performing group.
Street Music, a 2006 album by Defari; Street Music, a 2005 album by Redrama; Street Music, Op. 65, a 1977 orchestral composition by William Russo "Street Music", a song by Dizzy Gillespie from the 1964 The Cool World film soundtrack; Street performance, performing in public places for gratuities
1999 in jazz, deaths of Al Hirt, Andy Simpkins, Anna Mae Winburn, Arnold Fishkind, Art Farmer, Betty Roché, Bobby Troup, Candy Candido, Charles Earland, Charles ...
In the first decades mainly used to provide popular music for radio and TV shows it changed into a Jazz Big Band in the 1970s. The hr-Bigband plays approximately 50 concerts a year, covering a wide range of jazz styles and also crossing the boundaries to pop, classical, world and electronic music.
Performance Today was created by National Public Radio (NPR), and went on the air in 1987. The program was founded by NPR vice president for cultural programming Dean Boal, who gave Performance Today its name, and who, along with NPR colleagues Doug Bennet, Jane Couch, Ellen Boal, and retired Baldwin Piano Company president Lucien Wulsin, secured the series' initial funding.
John Fordham, "Bill Russo - Creator of a jazz/classical hybrid" (obituary), The Guardian, 13 March 2003. William Russo Collection, College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago; Wilfrid Mellers, Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music, 1964, Transaction Publishers, ISBN 9781412845076