"Valerie June Hockett, known as Valerie June, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Her sound encompasses a mixture of folk, blues, gospel, soul, country, Appalachian and bluegrass. - wiki"
In 1997, Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna sent ripples throughout the choral world. Originally premiered by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, its influence on choral music and musicians has been felt far and wide, cementing its status as one of the most performed works of the late 20th century. This season, Lux Aeterna receives its first performance with orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall to commemorate this occasion. -program notes for upcoming, 20th anniversary performance by the Chorale
Russell was an American cellist, artist, and composer (born 21 May 1951 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA - died 4 April 1992 from AIDS in New York, New York, USA (aged 40). Arthur Russell and Allen Ginsberg first met in the early 70’s in San Francisco through mutual interests in music, poetry, and Buddhism. Drawn to each other’s creative energy, Russell would soon start to provide Ginsberg with musical backing during his poetry readings. Continuing their friendship as Ginsberg supported Russell in his musical career, “Ballad of the Lights” was recorded in NYC in 1977 with Russell’s band, The Flying Hearts and Ginsberg participating in voice. After many years of sleep, Ballad Of The Lights was unearthed by Audika Records from deep in Arthur Russell’s vast archive.
"This concept album It is the first to use the _Starship_ moniker, a name which Kantner and Grace Slick would later use for the band Jefferson Starship that emerged after Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen left Jefferson Airplane."
"This song is included on the Voyager Golden Disc embedded in the Voyager space probe. As of 2022, both Voyagers are still in operation past the outer boundary of the heliosphere in interstellar space."
"Margaret Murray was a force in musical education in Britain and around the world for more than 50 years. She was inspired by the music and ideas of Carl Orff, who she met in Germany in the early 1950s. From 1957 she collaborated with Gunild Keetman in delivering an English-language version of the composer's seminal Orff-Schulwerk. From 1963 Margaret presented Orff courses throughout the UK, South Africa, Australia and the USA, and in 1965 she initiated and led the first English-speaking Summer Course at the Orff Institute, Salzburg. She provided countless translations of all the important documents relating to the work of Carl Orff and the Schulwerk, an achievement that is highly respected world-wide,( my note- and no doubt responsible in no small part for the proliferation of Orff's methodologies). - Orff Society UK"
"Of his debut release, Serbian accordionist Milos Katanic writes: Breathe in. Breathe out. This album, The Breath, has been brought to life by commissioning eleven new compositions for the accordion, an instrument that give the breath of life to any piece of music it plays...Milos Katanic was born in the city of Kragujevac in 1991. = Amazon music "
"Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (later McVie) (vocals and keyboards) in 1967. Chicken Shack has performed with various line-ups, Stan Webb being the only constant member."
"Recorded a year before its release, a review by Allmusic's Scott Yanow stated: _This is one of the most obscure of all Yusef Lateef recordings... the set is more bop-oriented than normal... showing how strong and original Lateef could be even playing conventional straight-ahead material._ Click link for personnel"
"This Detroit based group delebrates the link between the jazz and classical idioms. Akropolis has collaborated with poets, a metal fabricator, dancers, small business owners, string quartets, pop vocalists, and more. - website"
Of The Beatles, Flack said: “I started finding my voice around the time the Beatles started playing and I bought everything they recorded. I learned all of their songs and taught them to my students in junior high school in Washington DC_ She was close friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono...they all moved into the Dakota in 1975 and lived across the hall from each other. More on Sean's reflections of her in link
"Geir Jenssen is an active climber and mountaineer, a hobby which is an inspiration on his work as well as a source of natural sound samples.. This is a recording he made while climbing Cho Oyu, an 8201 meter in Tibet."
"One of only 8 or so songs release in his lifetime. He was a rising star -- Philly & NYC scene -- before committing suicide in 1960. Some speculate it had to do with the difficulties of being homosexual at that time. His best friend was another tragic figure, singer Beverly Kenney, who killed herself two months after Nick. "
"Michael Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artis born in Lagos, and died in Salinas, CA at age 76. This is from his first postumous release since his death in 2003"
"Fanny Howe was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1940 and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Howe is the daughter of the Dublin-born playwright and novelist Mary Manning and of Mark DeWolfe Howe, a Boston Brahmin and Harvard Law School professor. Howe is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose. "
Eric Siday (1 November 1905 – 26 March 1976) was a British-American composer and musician. While most commonly known for his pioneering work in electroacoustic music, his early career was that of a hot-jazz violinist in the London dance bands in the Roaring ’20s, including Ray Starita's Piccadilly Revels. Even then, as a young violinist, his improvised soloing style was amazingly advanced for his era. He played with a remarkably modern chromatic style, verging on atonal, often incorporating multi-stops (playing up to four notes in harmony on the violin simultaneously utilizing multiple fingers). - wiki
"Sure on this shining night, Of starmade shadows round, Kindness must watch for me this side of the ground. The late year lies down the north. All is healed, all is health. High summer holds the earth. Hearts all whole.Sure on this shining night I weep for wonder wandering far alone. Of shadows on the stars."
