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Artist: Virgil
Artist: Virgil Fox
Artist: Virgil Gonsalves
California-based sax player Virgil Gonsalves played with Alvino Rey, Jack Fina, and Tex Beneke before forming his own group. He recorded three albums as a leader. ~ David Szatmary, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Virgil Moorefield
Virgil Moorefield was born in North Carolina and raised in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. He began his career as a composer, settling in New York after receiving his B.A. and M.A. in 1979 from Columbia University. Moorefield's first album, Transformations, was recorded with his band, Equal Temperament, and released in 1983. His second album,... [+] Read More
Artist: Virgil Thomson
Thomson is one of the few true modernists in America. Thomson's music is almost disconcertingly spare and direct. In the consciously American pieces especially, there is a kind of aural equivalent to Cubist collage, as ragtime, waltzes, tangos, two-steps, fiddle tunes, and hymns get pasted onto the texture. Unlike Ives, there's an unsentimental... [+] Read More
Artist: Virgil Donati
Artist: Virgil Muzur
Artist: Virgil Mania
Artist: Virgil Reality
Artist: Virgil Shaw
Artist: Virgil Cane
Artist: Virgil Cain
Artist: Virgil Childers
Artist: Virgil Enziger
Artist: Otto Virgil
Artist: Virgil & Emeralds Sawyer
Artist: Lou Harrison
Studied with Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, Virgil Thomson, and Korean, Chinese, and other Asian musics. Built gamelans, taught at many colleges, holds Honorary Doctorate, many awards and commissions. Dance and film scores for dancer Erick Hawkins and filmmaker James Broughton among many others. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Jean Barraqué
French composer of chamber music; a contemporary of Messiaen; one of the first serialists. His unique style combined a rich impressionism with extremely formal pointillism. The use of jazz instrumentalists in classical ensembles playing his serial music led to social stigmatization in the late '50s. The pieces ...au delà du hasard and Chant... [+] Read More
Artist: Tom Chiu
Violinist Tom Chiu was first violinist of the Flux Quartet in 1997. That year and the next, he also performed in the Virgil Moorefield Ensemble (with violinist Mat Maneri and baritone saxophonist Tim Otto) at Columbia University's American Festival of Microtonal Music. 1998's performance at AFMM was a theater interpretation of the story of Adam... [+] Read More
Artist: Tim Otto
Australian saxophonist Tim Otto has played in a number of New York-based groups since moving there; from Virgil Moorefield's ensembles to the Sun Ra cover band, Myth Science. Heard alternately on soprano, baritone and tenor saxophones, Otto performs on Chris Cunningham's Stories To Play, and is a member of Pink Noise Saxophone Quartet with Peck... [+] Read More
Artist: Brett's TV
The line-up of John Denery (vocals/guitar), Virgil Shaw (vocals/guitar), Chris Imlay (vocals/guitar), John Quittner (bass), and Brian Keeny (drums) made up the Berkley pop-punk outfit Brett's TV. On top of their inspirations of '50s bebop and notoriety of playing as many Laundromats as they could, Lookout Records released their debut 7",... [+] Read More
Artist: Leontyne Price
African American Soprano. Won a scholarship to Juilliard in 1949. In 1952 Ms. Price was chosen by Virgil Thomson for a Broadway revival of his Four Saints in Three Acts, and then starred as Bess in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess on a world tour. A concert career including first performances of works by Barber and Sauguet was interrupted by a... [+] Read More
Artist: Derek Sherinian
Keyboard virtuoso Derek Sherinian made a name for himself in the post-Dream Theater world of progressive metal both as a sideman and a solo artist in his own right. Sherinian grew up in California and studied at the Berklee School of Music, where he perfected his hard rock and fusion chops. He landed touring gigs with Alice Cooper and Kiss in... [+] Read More
