John Paul Jones (musician) - that name on it in France. Jones learned his keyboard skills from his father, Joe Baldwin, who was a pianist and arranger for big bands in the 40's and 50's, notably with the Ambrose Orchestra. His mother was also in the music business which allowed the family to often perform together touring around England. His influences ranged from the blues of Big Bill Broonzy, the jazz of Charles Mingus, to the classical piano of Rachmaninov. Jones was a student at Christ College boarding school in Kent where he formally studied music. At the age of 14, he became choirmaster and organist at a local church and during that year, he also bought his first bass guitar, a Dallas solid body electric followed by a Fender Jazz bass. The fluid playing of.
Grammy Awards of 1969 - Grammy Awards of 1969 9 he 11th Grammy Awards were held in 1969. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1968. Record of the Year Paul Simon & Roy Halee (producers) & Simon and Garfunkel for "Mrs. Robinson" Album of the Year Al De Lory (producer) & Glen Campbell for By The Time I Get To Phoenix Song of the Year Bobby Russell (songwriter) for "Little Green Apples" performed by Roger Miller / O.C. Smith Best New Artist Jose Feliciano Classical Best Classical Performance - Orchestra Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Boulez Conducts Debussy (La Mer; Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune; Jeux) Best Vocal Soloist Performance Carlo Felice Cillario (conductor), Montserrat Caballe & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Rossini: Rarities.
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance - Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes: From 1959 to 1960 the award was known as Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music (including chamber orchestra) In 1961 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Vocal or Instrumental - Chamber Music From 1962 to 1964 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music In 1965 it was awarded as two awards for Best Chamber Music Performance - Vocal and Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental From 1966 to 1967 it was awarded as Best Classical Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental or Vocal From 1968 to 1990 it was awarded as Best Chamber Music Performance In 1991 it.
Karel Ancerl - from 1947 to 1950 he conducted for Prague radio. From 1950 to 1968 he was conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and from 1969 to his death conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He died in Toronto. He was particularly noted for his interpretation of music by Czech composers..
Katrine Gislinge - Katrine Gislinge Katrine Gislinge (born 1969) is a Scandinavian pianist. She began taking piano lessons at the age of six. After taking her diploma in 1990 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, she studied with, among others, Seymour Lipkin in New York, Boris Berman and Peter Feuchtwanger in London. Katrine Gislinge's concerts have evoked a broad spectrum of superlatives. She is well known for her musical imagination and profound empathy with the classical repertoire. Katrine Gislinge's career has picked up speed: She is the first Danish pianist to record on Deutsche Grammophon, chamber music collaboration with international artists like the German Petersen String Quartet, the cellist Jian Wang, cellist Marc Coppey, the flautist Emmanuel Pahud, the violinist Augustin Dumay and the violist Gérard Caussé; solo concerts at international.
Ken Dodd - duster (or "tickling stick"), and his catchphrase, "How tickled I am!" He works largely in the music hall tradition, although he has appeared in several dramatic plays. Dodd intersperses his comedy act with music, and sings with a baritone voice. He has had many recording hits. His song Tears is still one of the biggest selling singles of all time in the United Kingdom. His stamina is legendary. His solo stage shows can still run for more than three hours. He claims that on one occasion the caretaker of the theatre handed him the keys on stage and told him to lock up when he was finished. He always ends his act with a soulful rendition of the song "Happiness". UK chart singles "Love Is Like A Violin" (1960) "Once In.
Ken Russell - BBC documentary about the life of Edward Elgar, and his TV film about the life of Frederick Delius, as seen through the eyes of Eric Fenby, was also well-received. His first major feature film was 1969's Women in Love, based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence. More work in a similar vein followed, including The Music Lovers (1970), a biopic of Tchaikovsky which drew attention to his homosexuality, and The Devils, based on Aldous Huxley's book The Devils of Loudun, starring Vanessa Redgrave in a highly controversial role as a nun. By the 1990s, Russell's work had attracted so much media attention that he was widely regarded as unemployable, and he is now largely reliant on his own finances to continue making films. He and late ex-wife, Shirley (now deceased),.
Kenneth Anger - 1947. While most of his films are short subject (ranging from 3.5 minutes to 30 minutes) mood pieces, in 1955 he made a documentary film of the ruins of Crowley's magical abbey in Cefalu, Sicily. During the late 60's he associated with The Rolling Stones, and Mick Jagger did the music for Anger's 1969 film Invocation of My Demon Brother. Several of his films are collected in the 4 volume Magick Lantern Cycle, these are marked * in the filmography. Filmography Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) Tinsel Tree (1941-1942) Prisoner of Mars (1942) The Nest (1943) Escape Episode (1944) Drastic Demise (1945) Escape Episode (shorter sound version) (1946) Fireworks (1947)* Puce Moment (1949)* The Love That Whirls (1949) Maldoror (1951-1952, unfinished) Eaux d'Artifice (1953)* Le Jeune Homme et la.
King Crimson - has fluctuated considerably during its lifetime, the band continues to perform and record music today. Their musical style has typically been categorized as rock and roll or progressive rock. The name "King Crimson" was coined by Peter Sinfield as a synonym for Beelzebub, prince of demons. A considerable amount of King Crimson's history consists of the various personnel changes that have occurred within the group. Throughout its history, Robert Fripp has been the only consistent member, though he has expressed the fact that he does not consider himself the band's leader, necessarily. To him King Crimson "is a way of doing things,"[1] and the musical consistency that has persisted throughout the band's history, despite continuous rotation of its members, reflects this point of view. Origins Robert Fripp and Michael Giles began.
Kim Milford - the plays Henry Sweet Henry, 1976, Your Own Thing, Rockabye Hamlet (1975-76, Laertes), More Than You Deserve, Sunset, and All Bets Off. Kim played in all the major clubs in New York City and Los Angeles with his own band and was lead singer in the Jeff Beck Group (Aug-Sept '72). He also worked on television in the movies Song of the Succubus (with Brooke Adams) and Rock-A-Die-Baby (aka Night of the Full Moon), both on 1975 on ABC's Wild World of Entertainment, and in which Kim performed his own music; and on TV in Mannix (Portrait in Blues), The Highwayman, and Sonny Spoon. Kim also starred in the feature films Laserblast, Bloodbrothers, Corvette Summer, Escape, Nightmare at Noon, and Wired to Kill. According to an interview in the October 1974.
Klaus Schulze - 1947. He was a member of the original Tangerine Dream that recorded the LP Electronic Meditation in 1969, but left the group to form Ash Ra Tempel the following year. Again, however he chose to leave a newly-formed group after only one album, this time to mount a solo career. As a solo artist, he has had a prolific career, with more than 40 original albums to his name since his 1972 release Irrlicht, one of the highlights being 1976's Moondawn. Through his career, he has worked mostly in the musical vein of the abovementioned Tangerine Dream, albeit usually with a more reflective, dreamy edge, not unlike the ambient music of contemporary Brian Eno. During the last decade he has also been working with more contemporary dance music..
Krzysztof Penderecki - 23, 1933) is a Polish composer of classical music. He was born in Debica and after taking private composition lessons with Franciszek Skolyszewski, he studied music at Krakow University and the Krakow Academy for Music under Artur Malawski and Stanislaw Wiechowicz. After graduating in 1958 he took up a teaching post there himself, teaching Iannis Xenakis amongst others. Penderecki's early works show the influence of Anton Webern and Pierre Boulez (he has also been influenced by Igor Stravinsky). The piece which brought him international fame was Threnody For the Victims of Hiroshima (originally called 8' 37", perhaps in a nod to John Cage), written for 52 string instruments. In it, Penderecki makes used of extended instrumental techniques (for example, playing on the wrong side of the bridge, bowing on the tailpiece),.
January 1 - 1931 - USS Wyoming (BB-32) was placed in reduced commission at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. 1934 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison 1935 - Bucknell University wins the first Orange Bowl 26-0 over the University of Miami 1937 - Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua 1937 - The first Cotton Bowl game is played in Dallas, Texas 1939 - Vienna New Year's Concert is first held. 1942 - World War II: The word "United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact. 1942 - USS Captor is acquired by the Navy as part of the Auxiliary Vessels Act. 1945 - USS California (BB-44) departs from Palau for the Luzon landings 1945 - USS Colorado (BB-45) Returns to Luzon on and participates in the preinvasion bombardments in Lingayen Gulf. 1945.
January 2 - after after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City). 1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first African American woman to lead a city of that size and importance. 1993 - Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans. 1998 - Russia begins to circulate new rubless to stem inflation and promote confidence. Births 1777 - Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor (†1857) 1822 - Rudolf Clausius, physicist, contributions to thermodynamics (†1888) 1836 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, writer (†1917) 1859 - Anna Sacher, hotelier, Sacher cake (†1930) 1870 - Ernst Barlach, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (†1938) 1886 - Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first "star" (†1938) 1896 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (†1954).
January 30 - the radio for the first time. 1944 - United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands. 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by a Hindu extremist. 1948 - 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland. 1962 - Two of the high-wire "Flying Wallendas" are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. 1964 - Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is it to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon. 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begin when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam. 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police. 1972 - Bloody Sunday: United.
January 24 - - The United States Department of Justice indicts Robert Nicholas Angleton of Houston, Texas on conspiring to murder his wife, Doris Angleton, along with his brother Roger. Robert also gets weapons-related charges. 2003 - The new United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation. Births 76 - Hadrian, Roman emperor (†138) 1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (†1786) 1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, poet, composer, and painter (†1822) 1862 - Edith Wharton, writer (†1937) 1888 - Vicki Baum, writer (†1960) 1888 - Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer (†1958) 1895 - Eugen Roth, lyricist and narrator (†1976) 1917 - Ernest Borgnine, actor 1918 - Oral Roberts, evangelist 1925 - Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina 1928 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer 1939 - Doug Kershaw, musician 1939.
January 4 - government 1850 - The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). 1884 - The Fabian Society is founded in London 1885 - The first successful appendectomy is performed (Dr. William Grant; patient was Mary Gartside). 1896 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. 1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins 1948 - Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom 1951 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul. 1957 - After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published. 1958 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957) 1962 - New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board. 1965.
January 5 - Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. 2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit 2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack. Births 1596 - Henry Lawes, composer (†1662) 1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (†1793) 1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (†1820) 1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor (†1932) 1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (†1967) 1880 - Nikolay Medtner, composer (†1951) 1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (†1952) 1904 - Jeane Dixon, astrologer (†1997) 1909 - Stephen Kleene, mathematician (†1994) 1913 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (†2001) 1914 - George Reeves, actor (†.
January 9 - Jerome, American society beauty (†1921) 1856 - Anton Askerc, priest, poet 1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, poet 1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer 1857 - Henry B. Fuller, writer 1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters 1859 - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar, church historian 1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (†1926) 1866 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter, etcher 1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch opera singer 1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (†1939) 1870 - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet, translator 1875 - Gertrude Whitney, sculptor (†1942) 1876 - Hans Bethge, writer 1879 - John Broadus Watson, behaviorist psychologist (†1958) 1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie,.
January 12 - popular later program, Amos 'n' Andy. 1932 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate. 1940 - World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. 1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board. 1945 - World War II: The Soviets begin a very large offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis. 1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt and later proclaim a republic. 1966 - Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. 1966 - Batman debuts on ABC. 1969 - Super Bowl III: New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts, 16-7. 1970 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. 1971 - All in the Family debuts on CBS. 1971.
