Showing 1 - 11 of 11
Artist: Transfiguration
Artist: Transfiguration of Teth
Artist: M. Ward
After a six-year stint with the trio Rodriguez, M. Ward began sketching out songs deeply rooted in the classic traditions of American country-folk. Rodriguez's home was in San Luis Obispo, CA, and they eventually recorded Swing Like a Metronome with Granddaddy's Jason Lytle. Ward's first solo effort came in the form of Duet for Guitars #2, which... [+] Read More
Artist: Lee Hyla
Venerated modern composer and pianist Lee Hyla has been the focus of many awards, grants and commissions for several decades. Hyla was born in Niagara Falls, New York and raised in Greencastle, Indiana. He left Indiana for New York to study composition at SUNY Stony Brook with David Lewin, and then went on to Boston to continue his studies with... [+] Read More
Artist: Carolyn Fok
Award-winning multimedia artist Carolyn Fok builds textured electronic music that is experimental while remaining deeply personal using an array of analog and digital instruments.
Born April 3, 1966, Fok began writing and illustrating her own books at age five. When she was nine years old, Fok discovered a drum machine built by her father and a... [+] Read More
Artist: Arnold Schoenberg
Schoenberg, who taught Webern and Berg, is the well-known inventor of the 12-tone system (Josef Hauer independently invented one on separate principles about the same time). Schoenberg was, amazingly, a self-taught musician, whose Harmonienlehre ("Theory of Harmony") is still studied for the breadth of its understanding of the deepest meaning of... [+] Read More
Artist: Alice Coltrane
Music obviously ran in Alice Coltrane's family; her older brother was bassist Ernie Farrow, who in the '50s and '60s played in the bands of Barry Harris, Stan Getz, Terry Gibbs and especially, Yusef Lateef. Alice McLeod began studying classical music at the age of seven. She attended Detroit's Cass Technical High School with pianist Hugh Lawson... [+] Read More
Artist: The Montgolfier Brothers
The Montgolfier Brothers are Mark Tranmer and Roger Quigley; Tranmer writes and performs much of the duo's music, while Quigley writes the lyrics and provides their vocals. Both artists have released numerous solo projects on their own, and collaborated with other artists, in addition to recording together as the Montgolfier Brothers. Tranmer --... [+] Read More
Artist: Christopher Rouse
Christopher Rouse is one of the most prominent examples of the renascent American symphonist, following in the tradition of the composers of the 1930s and 1940s (such as Schuman, on whom Rouse has written a short bio-bibliography, Bernstein, Harris, and Copland). Like John Corigliano and Michael Daugherty, though, Rouse's work is less abstract... [+] Read More
Artist: Hollywood String Quartet
The first American chamber music ensemble to reach an international audience, the Hollywood String Quartet originally consisted of Felix Slatkin and Paul Shure on violins, Paul Robyn on viola, and Eleanor Aller Slatkin on cello. From their foundation in 1946 until the end of the '50s, they explored a massive amount of chamber music repertory... [+] Read More
Artist: Eugene Ormandy
Over a period of four decades, from the 1940s until the beginning of the 1980s, Eugene Ormandy was a mainstay of the classical music world. As music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra for more than 40 years, beginning in 1938, he was one of the most popular conductors in America, and his recordings with that orchestra on the Columbia... [+] Read More
