Alfred Cortot - Alfred Cortot Alfred Cortot (September 26, 1877 - June 15, 1962) was a French pianist and conductor. Born in Nyon in Switzerland, Cortot studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the piano prize there in 1896. Between 1898 and 1901 he was an assistant conductor at Bayreuth from 1898 to 1901, and in 1902 he conducted the Paris premiere of Götterdämmerung. He later taught the piano at the Paris Conservatoire before founding the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris in 1919. His courses in musical interpretation there became almost legendary. He toured as a pianist all over the world, also appearing as guest conductor of many orchestras. He died in Lausanne. As a pianist, Cortot was particularly noted for his interpretations of Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann,.
Alfred Brendel - Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel (born January 5, 1931) is an Austrian pianist. He is widely seen as one of the great classical pianists of the second half of the 20th century. Brendel was born in Wiesenburg (now Loučná nad Desnou), Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) into a non-musical family. They moved to Zagreb when Brendel was six, and later to Graz. They lived there during World War II, towards the end of which the fourteen year old Brendel was sent to Yugoslavia to dig trenches. However, he caught frostbite and was taken to hospital. Throughout his childhood, Brendel had occasional piano lessons, but otherwise little formal music education. After the war, Brendel composed music, as well as continuing to play the piano and paint. He never had.
Jacques Thibaud - In 1943 he established the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition, a competition for violinists and pianists with Marguerite Long. As well as a soloist, Thibaud was noted for his performances of chamber music, particularly as part of a piano trio with the pianist Alfred Cortot and cellist Pablo Casals. He was a friend of Eugène Ysaÿe who dedicated his second sonata for solo violin to him. Thibaud was killed in an air crash on Mont Cemet. His Stradivarius violin was also destroyed..
Erik Satie - Erik Satie Erik Alfred Leslie Satie (May 17, 1866 - July 1, 1925) was a French composer. Born in Honfleur, Basse-Normandie, France, Satie was a music composer, and a performing pianist, though mainly for café and cabaret audiences. Satie wrote theatre and ballet music, as well as piano music. His compositions are original, humorous, often bizarre, and very minimalistic. His music is sometimes called furniture music, supposed to be in the background of everyday life. It is evidently is (anti)-romantic and also anti-impressionistic. Satie eventually became a leading figure of the French avant-garde. Today he is regarded as one of the important forebears of minimalism, and John Cage cited him as a major influence. His work is also considered a forerunner of ambient music. He did not begin to.
Dinu Lipatti - and his godfather was the composer George Enescu. He finished second at the 1934 Vienna International Piano Competition, which led to Alfred Cortot, who thought he should have won, resigning from the jury in protest. Lipatti subsequently studied under Cortot and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Lipatti's career was interrupted by World War II, and following the war his performances were less frequent owing to the cancer which eventually killed him. He died in Geneva. Despite a relatively short playing career, and a relatively small recorded legacy, Lipatti's is considered among the finest pianists of his time. He is particularly noted for his interpretations of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Frederic Chopin..
1962 - baseball player March 15 - Terence Trent D'Arby, singer March 17 - Clare Grogan, Scottish actress and singer March 21 - Rosie O'Donnell, comedian, actress, talk show host, publisher March 21 - Matthew Broderick, actor March 23 - Steve Redgrave, five times Olympic gold-medallist March 26 - John Stockton, former basketball player, all-time NBA leader in assists and steals April 11 - Vincent Gallo, actor April 15 - Nawal El Moutawakel, Moroccan hurdler April 23 - John Hannah, Scottish actor May 3 - Anders Graneheim, bodybuilder May 9 - David Gahan, singer in Depeche Mode May 10 - David Fincher, film director May 12 - Emilio Estevez, actor May 24 - Gene Anthony Ray, actor (†2003) May 26 - Bobcat Goldthwait, actor, comedian May 27 - Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer.
Pianist - classical music, and all sorts of popular music. Well-known or influential classical pianists: Martha Argerich Claudio Arrau Vladimir Ashkenazy Gina Bachauer Wilhelm Backhaus Daniel Barenboim Simon Barere Bart Berman Boris Berman Idil Biret Jorge Bolet Alfred Brendel Bruno Canino Robert Casadesus Shura Cherkassky Dino Ciani Aldo Ciccolini Van Cliburn Harriet Cohen Jean-Philippe Collard Alfred Cortot Clifford Curzon Bella Davidovich Alicia de Larrocha Vasso Devetsi Peter Donohoe Barry Douglas Hans Eijsackers Vladimir Feltsmann Annie Fischer Edwin Fischer Leon Fleischer Walter Gieseking Emil Gilels Jacob Gimpel Katrine Gislinge Misha Goldstein Richard Goode Glenn Gould Lola Graham Gary Graffman Hélène Grimaud Friedrich Gulda Horatio Gutierrez Clara Haskil Ingrid Haebler Gerard Hengeveld Myra Hess Angela Hewitt Vladimir Horowitz Stephen Hough Peter Jablonski Jeno Jando William Kappel Julius Katchen Freddy Kempf Wilhelm Kempff Olga Kern Evgeny.
Piano trio - the form. Although the grouping of piano, violin and cello is by far the most common in piano trios, the name is sometimes also used to describe other works for piano and two other instruments. Examples include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Kegelstatt trio, for clarinet, viola and piano and Bela Bartok's three-movement work, Contrasts, for piano, clarinet and violin. The term piano trio can also refer to a group of musicians who regularly play together. Among the best known such groups were the one consisting of Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals and the Beaux Arts Trio. A more recent well-known trio consists of Emanuel Ax, Young Uck Kim, and Yo-Yo Ma..
Piano roll - play back the dynamics as performed by the pianist. There were dozens of companies producing rolls during the peak period of their popularity (1900-1927). Some of the larger companies are listed below, with their most promiment recording artsts. QRS Company - Max Kortlander, Pete Wendling, J. Lawrence Cook, and Victor Arden Imperial - Charley Straight, Roy Bargey Vocalstyle - Jelly Roll Morton, Mary Allison, Walter Davison The Duo-Art and Ampico brands were known as 'reproducing' piano rolls, as they could accurately reproduce the touch and dynamics of the artist as well as the notes struck, when played back on Duo-Art and Ampico capable pianos. Duo-Art featured artists such as Ignace Jan Paderewski, Shura Cherkasky, Alfred Cortot, and Frank Milne. The Ampico brand's stable included Sergei Rachmaninov, Leo Ornstein, and Marguerite Volavy..
Luc Ferrari - his tape music. Ferrari was born in Paris and studied the piano under Alfred Cortot, musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen and composition under Arthur Honegger. His first works were freely atonal. In 1954, Ferrari went to the United States to meet Edgard Varese, whose Déserts he had heard on the radio, and had impressed him. This seems to have had a great effect on him, with the tape part in Déserts serving as inspiration for Ferrari to use magnetic tape in his own music. In 1958 he co-founded the Groupe des Recherche Musicales with Pierre Schaeffer and François-Bernard Mâche. He has taught in institutions around the world, and has worked for film, theatre and radio. By the early 1960, Ferrari had begun work on his Hétérozygote, a piece for magnetic tape.
Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist - Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist Joseph A. A. Burnquist (July 21, 1879 January 12, 1961 ) was an American politican. He was elected Lt. Governor of Minnesota in 1914 He served as the 19th Governor of Minnesota from December 30, 1915 to January 5, 1921. He became Governor after the death of Governor Winfield Scott Hammond. He later served the state as Attorney General from January 2, 1939 until January 3, 1955. He was a Republican..
Karl Mannheim - he heard in Berlin Georg Simmel and worked from 1922 - 1925 in Heidelberg under the german sociologist Alfred Weber, brother of the very well known german sociologist Max Weber. One of his assistants was Norbert Elias (from spring 1930 until spring 1933). Important work: Ideology and Utopia. Mannheim is seen as a founder for the sociology of knowledge..
Kaminaljuyu - center of Kaminaljuyu is preserved as a park. The site was first excavated in 1925 by Manuel Gamio when he made stratigraphic excavations and found deep cultural deposits yielding potsherds and clay figurines from the Middle Cultures (from 1500 B.C.E. to 150 A.D.). Later the extent of the site’s importance was discovered in 1935 when a local football club began cutting away the edges of two inconspicuous mounds to lengthen their practice field. They uncovered a buried structure and Lic. J. Antonio Villacorta C., the Minister of Public Education in Guatemala City, requested archaeologists Alfred Kidder, Jesse Jennings and Edwin Shook to investigate. Lic. Villacorta gave the site its name Kaminaljuyu from a Quiché word meaning “hills of the dead.” Kaminaljuyu surrounded by civilization The Middle Cultures, sometimes called Miraflores, were.
Karin Dor - also in British (You Only Live Twice) and American films (Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz)..
Kelly Freas - hanging in the Smithsonian Institution); pinup girls on bombers while in the US Army Air Corps; comic book covers; the cover of Queen's first two-million-selling album News of the World; the covers of the GURPS worldbooks Lensman and Planet Krishna; and many others, such as more than 500 saints' portraits for the Franciscans executed simultaneously with his portraits of Alfred E. Neuman ("What? Me Worry?") for Mad. He is very active in gaming and medical illustration. Kelly has published several collections of his artwork and frequently gives presentations. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions. Among many other awards, Kelly was the first person to receive ten Hugo awards. He has been nominated twenty times. No other artist in science fiction has consistently matched his record. His smooth and luminous images,.
Kenneth Arrow - won The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1972, which he shared with John Hicks. His most significant works are his contributions to social choice theory, notably "Arrow's impossibility theorem", and his work on general equilibrium analysis. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The impossibility theorem 2 General equilibrium theory 3 See also 4.
Vertigo (movie) - (movie) Vertigo is a 1958 film thriller by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of a detective, afraid of heights, who is hired to follow the straying wife of an old friend, but falls in love with her -- he thinks. It stars James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones and Raymond Bailey. The movie was adapted by Samuel A. Taylor and Alec Coppel from the novel d'Entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The final script was entirely written by Samuel Taylor from notes by Hitchcock. However, a number of elements survive from an earlier script by Alec Coppel, including the opening rooftop sequence, the Cypress Point kiss, the two visits to San Juan Batista, and the famous nightmare sequence. When Taylor attempted to.
Ken Russell - Ken Russell Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell (born July 3 1927) is a controversial British film director, particularly known for his films about famous composers. He was born in Southampton, and served in both the RAF and the Merchant Navy before taking up the arts and beginning to make his own films. One of his first major successes was a BBC documentary about the life of Edward Elgar, and his TV film about the life of Frederick Delius, as seen through the eyes of Eric Fenby, was also well-received. His first major feature film was 1969's Women in Love, based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence. More work in a similar vein followed, including The Music Lovers (1970), a biopic of Tchaikovsky which drew attention to.
Kinsey Reports - the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), by Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and others. Kinsey was a zoologist at the Indiana University at Bloomington and the founder of the Institute for Sex Research. Kinsey's research astounded the general public and was immediately controversial and sensational. He concluded among other things: Something between 90% and 95% of people were somewhat bisexual (see Kinsey scale). Masturbation was almost universal in human males. Women who reported masturbation before marriage had no less sexual satisfaction in their marriages, there was even a slight correlation of greater satisfaction. These findings caused shock and outrage, both because they challenged conventional beliefs about sexuality and because they discussed subjects that had previously been taboo. The belief that heterosexuality and abstinence were both ethical.
King Ottokar's Sceptre - others unconscious. Puzzled, Tintin wanders around and notices a spring cannon in a toy store. He returns to the treasure room with Thomson & Thompson and a stick the size of the sceptre and shows them that the camera is really a spring cannon in disguise. Thomson & Thompson cross the river with Tintin and look for the scepter in the birch forest. It is found by the Bordurians, whom they follow. At the border, Tintin wrests the scepter from a Bordurian and takes a plane, which is shot down. He makes the rest of the journey by foot; Snowy runs in with the sceptre (which had fallen out of Tintin's pocket) just as King Muskar is about to abdicate. The king makes Tintin a knight of the Order of the.
