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Orchestra concert series presentation set for Jan. 18 - Salisbury Post

SALISBURY — The Salisbury Symphony will be presenting its next concert, “Echoes of Romance,” under the direction of Music Director Daniel Wiley in his second appearance with the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra. Before he became a professional conductor, Wiley taught music in the public schools and while in high school he played in a swing band. […]

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Paul Douglas Freeman has conducted outstanding classical orchestras in many countries during his long career. One of the few African American conductors in the field of classical music, he is best known for his founding of the Chicago Sinfonietta, a classical orchestra widely recognized during the

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A Look Back, and Follow-Up, On Coronavirus Good-Deed Tales | Afro

By now the Portland, Oregon resident has rustled up more than $50,000 in donations and sent out over 100 rolls, most of them to health care and other essential

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(1963) Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream”

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon

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Duke Ellington opened at the Cotton Club

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Basie, Count (William Allen “Count” Basie) (1904-1984)

A jazz pianist and bandleader, Count Basie was one of the leading musicians of the Big Band “Swing” era. His Count Basie Orchestra was formed in 1936, and featured singers such as Billie Holliday, and notable musicians including Lester Young, Jo Jones, and Walter Page. The band lasted

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Referees fallout

The selection of referee Mwayi Msungama to handle Blantyre derby second round match between FCB Nyasa Big Bullets and Mighty Mukuru Wanderers Sunday has sparked fire among the Southern Region referees, Malawi News Sport has learnt. Msungama has come under attack following allegations that the

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Dallas Symphony Orchestra announces second annual C-Suite Christmas

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10 Classic and Essential Jazz Albums

Jazz is perhaps best experienced live, but some recordings are veritable works of art. Below is a list of ten albums that represent important periods in the development of jazz, and whose music is as fresh today as when it was recorded. The list ordered chronologically by the dates each album was

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Dizzy Gillespie

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San Fernando homeless host fundraising gala - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

RESIDENTS of Court Shamrock were able to rise above their circumstances and showcase their abilities and talents to host a gala dinner and concert at City Hall Auditorium, San Fernando, on November 26. The event was to raise funds to improve the conditions at the Centre for Socially Displaced

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RISE Chorales Selected To Perform At Prestigious Conference | The Savannah Tribune

RISE Chorales is excited to announce that their Young Women’s Chorale, RISE Gals, has been selected to perform at the American Choral Directors Association’s Southern Region Conference in Raleigh, NC in February 2022. “We were thrilled to be selected as one of only five choirs from an eleven-state

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Brownlee, Lawrence E., Jr. (1972- )

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Hattie McDaniel

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Allen, Sanford (1939- )

Violinist Sanford Allen was born in New York in 1939. His musical career began at the age of five with piano study. In 1946 he entered the preparatory program at Julliard to study violin. Allen continued his violin studies at the Mannes College (The New School for Music, in New York) under the

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Louis Armstrong

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Fela Kuti , byname of Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, also called Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (born October 15, 1938, Abeokuta, Nigeria—died August 2, 1997, Lagos), Nigerian musician and activist who launched a modern style of music called Afro-beat, which fused American blues, jazz, and funk with

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Estes, Simon (1938- )

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Ellington, Duke

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Southern, Eileen Jackson (1920-2002)

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