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Showing posts with label conductor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conductor. Show all posts

Friday, September 21, 2012

Jackie Gleason

Comedian, actor, composer and conductor, educated in New York public schools. Jackie Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987) was a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver, a disc jockey and later a comedian in night clubs. He designed his own fantastic round house that was built in Peekskill, New York, in the 1950s and remains a modern marvel. The set of "The Honeymooners" (1955) show was based on Jackie's childhood home on Chauncey Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant (originally Bushwick) area of Brooklyn, New York. The apartment building is still there and looks very much the same as in Jackie's time.
Source: worldufophotosandnews
 

Monday, September 10, 2012

Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH, (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976)  was an English composer, conductor, and pianist; and one of the central figures of twentieth-century British classical music. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. ca. 1950
Source: wikipedia | David Schulson Autographs

Monday, August 6, 2012

Teresa Carreño

Maria Teresa Carreño Garcia de Sena (December 22, 1853 – June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor. -vintage
Source: pettipond | wikipedia