Emery, Stephen Albert (4 Oct 1845) Reference library
Nicholas Tawa
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...for students. For many decades, his Elements of Harmony ( 1879 ) was in wide use in the United States. Emery taught the composers george whitefield Chadwick , horatio Parker , arthur Foote , henry Hadley , and ethelbert Nevin . In addition, Emery's public lectures and editorial writings in the Musical Herald had a strong influence during his lifetime. Bibliography F.O. Jones , ed.: A Handbook of American Music and Musicians (Canaseraga, NY, 1886) G.L. Howe and W.S.B. Mathews : A Hundred Years of Music in America (Chicago, 1889), 656–58 L.C. Elson...
Ford, Henry Justice (February 1860) Reference library
Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators
...Henry Justice British , 19th – 20th century, male. Born February 1860 , in London; died 1941 . Painter (gouache) , watercolourist , draughtsman , illustrator . Scenes with figures, religious subjects, mythological subjects. Henry Ford studied at Cambridge, under Alphonse Legros, an engraver friend of Whistler and the Pre-Raphaelites, and under Hubert von Herkomer at the school he founded in Bushey. He associated with the Pre-Raphaelite artist Burne-Jones and was influenced by him. He was known mainly for the illustrations that he published between ...
Johnson, Frank (16 June 1792) Reference library
Arthur R. LABrew
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...J.W. Cromwell : “Frank Johnson's Military Band,” BPM , iv/2 (1976), 208–12 A.R. LaBrew : Francis Johnson (1792–1844) (Detroit, 1977) “Black Music Precursors: the Writings of Arthur Randolph LaBrew,” Inter-American Music Review , i/2 (1979), 229 C. Jones : Francis Johnson (1792–1844): Chronicle of a Black Musician in Early Nineteenth Century Philadelphia (Bethlehem, PA, 2006) Arthur R....
Lodge, (Thomas) Henry (9 Feb 1884) Reference library
Richard Zimmerman and Tim Smolko
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...Blues, 1917, The Bounding Buck: a Rag Dance, 1918 Song: That Red Head Gal (G. Van, J. Schenck) (1922) Bibliography D.A. Jasen : Recorded Ragtime 1897–1958 (Hamden, CT, 1973) D. Zimmerman : “The Henry Lodge Story,” Rag Times , ix/5 (1976), 1–6 D.A. Jasen and T.J. Tichenor : Rags and Ragtime: a Musical History (New York, 1978) D.A. Jasen and G. Jones : That American Rag: the Story of Ragtime from Coast to Coast (New York, 2000) H. Loring White : Ragging It: Getting Ragtime into History (and Some History into Ragtime) (Lincoln, NE, 2005) Richard...
Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (21 August 1872) Reference library
Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators
...about 11 years old and at 15 was producing illustrations for his favourite books, Madame Bovary and Manon Lescaut . In 1892 he undertook the illustration of a luxury edition of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur for which he made more than 500 drawings. In 1894 , he drew illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s celebrated book Salomé and joined Henry Harland as art editor of the new art review, The Yellow Book . Also worth quoting among his compositions are book plates for publisher John Lane, illustrations for Bons Mots , for Tales by Edgar Allan Poe as...
Legrand, Michel (24 Feb 1932) Reference library
Mark Brill
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...1972; Portnoy's Complaint (E. Lehman), 1972; A Time for Loving (C. Miles), 1972; The Adventures of Don Quixote (A. Rakoff), 1973; A Bequest to the Nation (J. Jones), 1973; Breezy (C. Eastwood), 1973; Cops and Robbers (A. Avakian), 1973; A Doll's House (Losey), 1973; F for Fake (O. Welles), 1973; 40 Carats (M. Katselas), 1973; Impossible Object (J. Frankenheimer), 1973; The Nelson Affair (Jones), 1973; The Three Musketeers (Lester), 1973; It's Good to be Alive (M. Landon), 1974; Cage without a Key (Kulik), 1975 [television film]; Our Time (P. Hyams), 1975;...
Vardi, Emanuel (21 April 1917) Reference library
Tully Potter and Ilana R. Schroeder
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...for Audio Fidelity and MGM, working with artists such as Louis Armstrong and Al Hirt. His compositions include a violin concerto and pieces for viola, notably Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Paganini and transcriptions. Composers such as Seymour Barab, Henry Brant, Michael Colgrass, Alan Hovhaness, Charles Jones, George Kleinsinger, Walter May, and Alan Shulman wrote pieces for him. Most of his teaching was done privately, although he taught as professor of viola at Temple University, the Manhattan School, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bi...
Arranger Reference library
John Wriggle
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...achieve celebrity status, their musical legacy remains as widely influential as it is stylistically varied. Just a few notable figures include Broadway stage arrangers Robert Russell Bennett and will Vodery , Hollywood film arrangers henry Mancini and Conrad Salinger, recording studio arrangers Richard Evans, Arthur Lange, and nelson Riddle , and jazz arrangers don Redman , Maria Schneider, and Billy Strayhorn. Bibliography D. Sebesky : The Contemporary Arranger (New York, 1975, rev. 2/1984) G. Schuller : The Swing Era: the Development of Jazz,...
Atlanta Reference library
N. Lee Orr and Judi Caldwell
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...Opera in Atlanta experienced similar difficulties establishing itself. Memorial Arts Center opera productions began in 1968 . Unfortunately, the city's first resident professional company collapsed through financial mismanagement after its opening performances of Henry Purcell's King Arthur. Two ambitious professional companies emerged in the mid-1970s: the Atlanta Lyric Opera ( 1976 ) and the Music Theater Guild of Atlanta ( 1974 ), which became Georgia Opera in 1977 and moved to the Woodruff Arts Center. In 1979 , after periods of financial...
McPhee, Colin (15 March 1900) Reference library
Carol J. Oja
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...to Western instruments. Works (unpublished unless otherwise stated) Dramatic The Emperor Jones (incid music, E. O’Neill), 1940, lost; Westport, CT, 5 Aug 1940 Battle of Angels (incid music, T. Williams), 1940, lost; Boston, 1940 Film scores: Mechanical Principles, 1931, lost; H 2O, 1931, lost; Air Skills, 1957; Blue Vanguard, 1957; In our Hands, ?1957 Radio score: Broken Arrow, 1948, lost; CBS, 22 May 1948 Orchestral Piano Concerto no.1 “La mort d’Arthur,” 1920, lost; Baltimore, 26 May 1920 Piano Concerto no.2, 1923, lost; Toronto, 15 Jan 1924 Symphony...
Boston i Reference library
Leonard Burkat
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...; oliver Ditson ; john sullivan Dwight ; arthur Fiedler ; max Fiedler ; arthur Foote ; wilhelm Gericke ; patrick s. Gilmore ; gottlieb Graupner ; von Hagen ; sir george Henschel ; henry lee Higginson ; george k. Jackson ; franz Kneisel ; john knowles Paine ; serge Koussevitzky ; erich Leinsdorf ; james Levine ; keith Lockhart ; charles martin Loeffler ; georges Longy ; Mason ; Mason & hamlin ; pierre Monteux ; carl Muck ; charles Münch ; New england composers, schools of ; arthur Nikisch ; seiji Ozawa ; horatio Parker ; emil...
Biography Reference library
Denise Von Glahn
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...fit into an established European biographical tradition. William Henry Fry and George Frederich Bristow , the century's two most celebrated native symphonists among scholars today, receive scant attention by Ritter or anyone else. In 1889 W.S.B. Mathews published A Hundred Years of Music in America: an Account of Music Effort in America , a landmark book because of its size, breadth of coverage, and inclusion of graphics. It drew upon Ritter's book, and one written by F.O. Jones in 1886 , A Handbook of American Music and Musicians containing...
Civil Religion Reference library
Rita Kirk
The Oxford Companion to American Politics
.... (New York, 1975). Miller, Arthur H., and Martin P. Wattenberg. “ Politics from the Pulpit: Religiosity and the 1980 Elections .” Public Opinion Quarterly 48 (1984): 301–317. Richey, Russell E., and Donald G. Jones, eds. American Civil Religion . (New York, 1974). Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “Of Civil Religion.” In Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau , edited by Ernest Barker, pp. 295–307. (London, 1960). First published in 1762. Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America . Vol. 2. Translated by Henry Reeve. (New York, 1945). First...
Early-music revival Reference library
Paul C. Echols and Maria V. Coldwell
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...Baroque string instruments in Europe and who performed briefly with the Société des Instruments Anciens, organized in Paris by Henri Casadesus and Camille Saint-Saëns in 1901 . The ensemble was originally made up of four players of viols and Baroque violins and cellos, together with a harpsichordist, all of whom were professional musicians, and it began presenting an annual festival of early music in 1929 . The following year Henry S. Drinker, a part-time musical scholar and noted translator of German cantata texts, formed the Accademia dei Dilettanti di...
Nashville Reference library
Robert Webb Fry II
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...concert life, and the city witnessed an increase in music events performed by local musical organizations and national and international acts. Notable performers in Nashville's early concert life included Luigi Arditi's Italian Opera Company, Ole Bull, Jenny Lind, Camillo Sivori, Henri Herz, and Maurice Strakosch. In 1861 Tennessee seceded from the union and was soon occupied by federal troops. Many area newspapers ceased publication, resulting in the scarce documentation of concert life. Following the Civil War, Nashville reclaimed its title as a center for...
Cleveland Reference library
J. Heywood Alexander and William Osborne
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...), and another Cleveland SO ( 1910–12 ). Local artists were sometimes featured with these ensembles, as were groups such as the Singers’ Club under Albert Rees Davis , the Cleveland Opera and Oratorio Society under Adolph Liesegang , and the Harmonic Club under J. Powell Jones . The Dutch violinist Christiaan Timmner conducted an orchestral series ( 1913–15 ) with an ensemble that came to be supported by the city as the Cleveland Municipal SO. During these formative years the Cecilian String Quartet ( 1875–7 ) and the Schubert String Quartet ( 1877–...
Syracuse Reference library
Neva Pilgrim and David M. Rezak
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...with them. From the 1980s to the 2010s, Syracuse musicians have explored an array of genres from rock/soul to rockabilly, ska to straight edge. The punk scene ignited in the late 70s with the Flashcubes, the Most, and the Tearjerkers. The 90s brought gothic punkers the Dracula Jones and voodoo boogie band Little Georgie and the Shufflin’ Hungarians. Local hip-hop sensations have included Khalid Bey and Doowittle. Syracuse's biggest draw in 2011 was Under the Gun, a grunge/classic-rock group. Ron Wray's set of LPs, The History of Syracuse Music , some of...
Organ Reference library
Barbara Owen
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...tonal design. At the turn of the century this influential builder was joined by two innovative builders from England: john turnell Austin , who founded an organ company in Hartford, Connecticut on the strength of his unique “universal air chest” designs, and robert Hope-jones , whose iconoclastic tonal and mechanical designs led to his later becoming known as “the father of the theater organ.” 3. The 20th century. The early 20th century was a period of great change and much tonal and mechanical experimentation. Electrically controlled key and stop...
New York Reference library
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The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
... 27 April 1782 . Various groups of New York musicians sporadically announced series of subscription concerts. “City Concerts” begun in 1793 by Henri Capron, James Hewitt ( see Hewitt ( 1 ) , and G.E. Saliment lasted until 1797 , and included music by I.G. Pleyel, Haydn, A.-E.-M. Grétry, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Hewitt, and Benjamin Carr ( see Carr ( 2 ) ; outdoor summer concerts initiated in 1765 by James Jones in the Ranelagh Gardens continued to be popular. Vocal and instrumental music by Haydn, Thomas Arne, and Carl Stamitz, as well as popular ballads,...
Ragtime Reference library
Edward A. Berlin
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...more accessible rags of such figures as Ted Snyder, Percy Wenrich, Henry Lodge, Charles L. Johnson, and George Botsford. It was Johnson's “Dill Pickles” ( 1906 ) that popularized the “secondary rag” figure; this was quickly adopted by Botsford and others, becoming a standard ragtime figuration before the decade was out ( ex. 3 ). Ex.3 G. Botsford: “Black and White Rag” ( 1908 ) Whereas most published rags were for piano, some, conceived as band music, were sold only for that medium. Henry Fillmore, for example, composed many rags for band, usually featuring...
