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The poem "Bread and Roses" has been set to music several times. The earliest version was set to music by Caroline Kohlsaat in 1917. [38] [39] [40] The first performance of Kohlsaat's song was at the River Forest Women's Club where she was the chorus director. [41] [38] Kohlsaat's song eventually drifted to the picket line.
The website "Deaddisc.com" lists 49 under the title "Come all Ye Fair and Tender Maidens" and a further 7 under the title "Little Sparrow". [ 7 ] The version by Peter Paul and Mary recorded under the title "Tiny Sparrow" for the 1963 album Moving reached number two in the Billboard charts [ 8 ] Ian and Sylvia recorded it for their Vanguard 1967 ...
He was accompanied by the visiting American pianist-composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, "who encouraged him to pursue further violin studies in Paris and raised money for him to travel there". [2] José White studied at the Paris Conservatory , initially with Jean-Delphin Alard , between the years 1855 and 1871, winning the 1856 First Grand Prize ...
The violin is primarily used as support for a vocalist, as the sound of a violin complements that of the singer, but is also largely played solo. In solo violin concerts, the violinist is accompanied by percussion instruments, usually the tabla, the mridangam and the ghatam. The violin is also a principal instrument for Indian film music. V.
[1] [2] She received her first violin lessons at age five. Her father, then a 31-year-old secondary school teacher, decided to learn the violin. He took his daughter along: his talent was not especially stellar, but his daughter learned the technical fundamentals of violin playing correctly at an unusually early age, quickly becoming the star ...
The Red Violin is the original soundtrack album on the Sony Classical label of the 1999 film The Red Violin (original title: Le violon rouge), starring Carlo Cecchi, Sandra Oh and Samuel L. Jackson. The original score and songs were composed by John Corigliano [4] and performed by Philharmonia Orchestra with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting.
The Messe des pauvres (Mass for the Poor) is a partial musical setting of the mass for mixed choir and organ by Erik Satie. Composed between 1893 and 1895, it is Satie's only liturgical work and the culmination of his "Rosicrucian" or "mystic" period. It was published posthumously in 1929. [Note 1] [Note 2] A performance lasts around 18 minutes.