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Eugene Ormandy

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Eugene Ormandy (born Jenő Blau; November 18, 1899 – March 12, 1985) was an Hungarian-American conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director. [1]

194 relations: Academy of Music (Philadelphia), Alexander Borodin, Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev), American National Biography, Angel Records, Anton Bruckner, Anton Webern, Antonín Dvořák, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Judson, Arthur Rubinstein, Arturo Toscanini, Austria-Hungary, Babi Yar, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Béla Bartók, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Bidu Sayão, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Brigg Fair, Budapest, Camille Saint-Saëns, Carl Nielsen, Carl Orff, Carlton Cooley, Carmina Burana (Orff), Carnegie Hall, Catulli Carmina, Cello, Cello Concerto (Schumann), Cello Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claude Debussy, Claudio Arrau, Columbia Masterworks Records, Columbia Records, Concertmaster, Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók), Conducting, David Diamond (composer), David Oistrakh, Deryck Cooke, Die Fledermaus, Ditson Conductor's Award, Dmitri Shostakovich, Don Quixote (Strauss), Ein Heldenleben, Elizabeth II, Emanuel Feuermann, EMI, ..., Emil Gilels, Ernö Rapée, Fanfare (magazine), Fantasia (1940 film), Franz Liszt, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Frederick Delius, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, Great Depression, Gustav Holst, Gustav Mahler, György Sándor, Háry János, Herbert Kupferberg, Howard Hanson, Isaac Stern, Isadora Duncan, Itzhak Perlman, Japan, Jean Sibelius, Jenő Hubay, Jennie Tourel, Jerold Ottley, Jews, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Strauss II, Johannes Brahms, John Alden Carpenter, Joseph Haydn, Kalevala, Kennedy Center Honors, Krzysztof Penderecki, La Damoiselle élue, Lemminkäinen Suite, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Rose, Leopold Stokowski, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorne Munroe, Lucien Cailliet, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia), Mezzo-soprano, Michael Murray (organist), Minnesota Orchestra, Modest Mussorgsky, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Mstislav Rostropovich, Music recording certification, Ned Rorem, New York City, New York Philharmonic, Night Song (1948 film), On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Order of the British Empire, Pablo Casals, Paul Creston, Paul Hindemith, Pennsylvania, Peter Wilhousky, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Orchestra, Phyllis Curtin, Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt), Piano Concerto No. 3 (Bartók), Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff), Pictures at an Exhibition, Polovtsian Dances, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, RCA Records, RCA Red Seal Records, Richard Freed, Richard Nixon, Richard P. Condie, Richard Strauss, Richard Yardumian, Robert Casadesus, Robert Schumann, Roger Sessions, Romantic music, Roy Harris, Rudolf Serkin, Samuel Barber, Samuel Sanford, Serge Koussevitzky, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Silent film, Simon Estes, Stereophonic sound, Symphonia Domestica, Symphonic Dances (Rachmaninoff), Symphony in E-flat (Tchaikovsky), Symphony No. 1 (Sibelius), Symphony No. 10 (Mahler), Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich), Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich), Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich), Symphony No. 15 (Shostakovich), Symphony No. 2 (Mahler), Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff), Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich), Symphony No. 4 (Sibelius), Symphony No. 4 (Tchaikovsky), Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev), Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky), Symphony No. 6 (Nielsen), Symphony No. 6 (Prokofiev), Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky), Symphony No. 7 (Bruckner), Symphony No. 7 (Prokofiev), Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák), Symphony: Mathis der Maler, Telarc International Corporation, The Nutcracker, The Planets, Thomas Frost, Tom Krause, United States, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Glee Club, Utrenja, Van Cliburn, Verklärte Nacht, Violin, Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky), Virgil Fox, Virgil Thomson, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Horowitz, Walt Disney, Walter Piston, Westminster Choir College, William Schuman, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yale University, Yo-Yo Ma, Young People's Concerts, Zoltán Kodály. Expand index (144 more) »

Academy of Music (Philadelphia)

The Academy of Music, also known as American Academy of Music, is a concert hall and opera house located at 240 S. Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Alexander Borodin

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (a; 12 November 183327 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist.

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Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)

Alexander Nevsky (Александр Невский) is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev for Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky.

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American National Biography

The American National Biography (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries and 20 million words, first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.

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Angel Records

Angel Records was a record label founded by EMI in 1953.

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Anton Bruckner

Josef Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets.

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Anton Webern

Anton Friedrich Wilhelm (von) Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor.

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Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter.

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Arthur Judson

Arthur Leon Judson (February 17, 1881, Dayton, Ohio – January 28, 1975, Rye, New York) was an artists' manager who also managed the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra and founder of CBS.

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Arthur Rubinstein

Arthur Rubinstein (Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish American classical pianist.

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Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy in English-language sources, was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire (the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, or Cisleithania) and the Kingdom of Hungary (Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen or Transleithania) that existed from 1867 to 1918, when it collapsed as a result of defeat in World War I. The union was a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and came into existence on 30 March 1867.

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Babi Yar

Babi Yar (Бабин Яр, Babyn Yar; Бабий Яр, Babiy Yar) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and by local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.

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Battle Hymn of the Republic

The "Battle Hymn of the Republic," also known as "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory," outside of the United States, is a lyric by the American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body." Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861, and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862.

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Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and an ethnomusicologist.

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Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Benjamin Franklin Parkway is a scenic boulevard that runs through the cultural heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Bidu Sayão

Balduína "Bidu" de Oliveira Sayão (pronounced bee-DOO sigh-OWN) (May 11, 1902 – March 13, 1999) was a Brazilian opera soprano.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Brigg Fair

"Brigg Fair" (Roud) is an English folk song.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union.

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.

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Carl Nielsen

Carl August Nielsen (9 June 18653 October 1931) was a Danish musician, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.

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Carl Orff

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (–) was a German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937).

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Carlton Cooley

Samuel Carlton Cooley (April 15, 1898 in Milford, New Jersey – November 1981 in Stockton, New Jersey) was an American violist and composer.

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Carmina Burana (Orff)

Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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Catulli Carmina

Catulli Carmina (Songs of Catullus) is a cantata by Carl Orff dating from 1940–1943.

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Cello

The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.

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Cello Concerto (Schumann)

The Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.

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Cello Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)

The Cello Concerto No.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891.

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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Claudio Arrau

Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms.

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Columbia Masterworks Records

Columbia Masterworks Records was a record label started in 1924 by Columbia Records.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Concertmaster

The Concertmaster (from the German Konzertmeister) in the U.S. and Canada is the leader of the first violin section in an orchestra (or clarinet in a concert band) and the instrument-playing leader of the orchestra.

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Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók)

The Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123, is a five-movement musical work for orchestra composed by Béla Bartók in 1943.

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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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David Diamond (composer)

David Leo Diamond (July 9, 1915 – June 13, 2005) was an American composer of classical music.

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David Oistrakh

David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (– 24 October 1974), PAU, was a renowned Soviet classical violinist and violist.

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Deryck Cooke

Deryck Cooke (14 September 1919 – 27 October 1976) was a British musician, musicologist and broadcaster.

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Die Fledermaus

(The Flittermouse or The Bat, sometimes called The Revenge of the Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by and Richard Genée.

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Ditson Conductor's Award

The Ditson Conductor's Award, established in 1945, is the oldest award honoring conductors for their commitment to the performance of American music.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич|Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich,; 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist.

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Don Quixote (Strauss)

Don Quixote, Op.

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Ein Heldenleben

Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Emanuel Feuermann

Emanuel Feuermann (November 22, 1902May 25, 1942) was an internationally celebrated cellist in the first half of the 20th century.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Emil Gilels

Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (sometimes transliterated Hilels; Емі́ль Григо́рович Гі́лельс, Эми́ль Григо́рьевич Ги́лельс, Emiľ Grigorievič Gileľs; 19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985), HSL, PAU, was a Soviet pianist, widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.

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Ernö Rapée

Ernö Rapée (or Erno Rapee) (4 June 1891 – 26 June 1945) was one of the most prolific American symphonic conductors in the first half of the 20th Century.

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Fanfare (magazine)

Fanfare is an American bimonthly magazine devoted to reviewing recorded music in all playback formats.

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Fantasia (1940 film)

Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions.

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Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc;Liszt's Hungarian passport spelt his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a Ritter (knight) by Emperor Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt. 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era.

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Franz Liszt Academy of Music

The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem, often abbreviated as Zeneakadémia, "Music Academy") is a concert hall and music conservatory in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875.

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Frederick Delius

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH (29 January 186210 June 1934) was an English composer.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance has been awarded since 1961.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher.

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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György Sándor

György Sándor (21 September 1912 – 9 December 2005) was a Hungarian pianist and writer.

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Háry János

Háry János is a Hungarian folk opera (that is, a spoken play with songs, in the manner of a Singspiel) in four acts by Zoltán Kodály to a Hungarian libretto by Béla Paulini (1881–1945) and Zsolt Harsányi, based on the comic epic The Veteran (Az obsitos) by János Garay.

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Herbert Kupferberg

Herbert Kupferberg (1918 – February 22, 2001) was an American music critic and senior editor of Parade Magazine.

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Howard Hanson

Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music.

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Isaac Stern

Isaac Stern (Исаа́к Соломо́нович Штерн; Isaak Solomonovich Shtern; 21 July 1920 – 22 September 2001) was an American violinist.

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Isadora Duncan

Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927) was an American dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe.

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Itzhak Perlman

Itzhak Perlman (יצחק פרלמן; born 31 August 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and music teacher.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius, born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 186520 September 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods.

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Jenő Hubay

Jenő Hubay, Jenő Hubay von Szalatna, szalatnai Hubay Jenő (15 September 185812 March 1937), also known by his German name Eugen Huber, was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher.

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Jennie Tourel

Jennie Tourel (November 23, 1973) was a Jewish-American operatic mezzo-soprano, known for her work in both opera and recital performances.

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Jerold Ottley

Jerold Don Ottley (born April 7, 1934) was the music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 1974 to 1999.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son (Sohn), Johann Baptist Strauss, son of Johann Strauss I, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period.

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John Alden Carpenter

John Alden Carpenter (February 28, 1876 – April 26, 1951) was an American composer.

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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.

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Kalevala

The Kalevala (Finnish Kalevala) is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology.

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Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture (although recipients do not need to be U.S. citizens).

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Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (born 23 November 1933) is a Polish composer and conductor.

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La Damoiselle élue

La Damoiselle élue (The Blessed Damozel), L. 62, is a cantata for two soloists, female choir, and orchestra, composed by Claude Debussy in 1887–1889 based on a text by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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Lemminkäinen Suite

The Lemminkäinen Suite (also called the Four Legends, or Four Legends from the Kalevala), Op.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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Leonard Rose

Leonard Rose (July 27, 1918 – November 16, 1984) was an American cellist and pedagogue.

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Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 188213 September 1977) was an English conductor of Polish and Irish descent.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded in 1904, is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras.

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Lorne Munroe

Lorne Munroe (born November 24, 1924) is an American cellist.

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Lucien Cailliet

Lucien Cailliet (May 22, 1891 – January 3, 1985) was a French-American composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia)

The Metropolitan Opera House (MOH) is a historic opera house located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 858 North Broad Street.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Michael Murray (organist)

Michael Murray (born March 19, 1943 in Kokomo, Indiana) is an American-born organist and writer.

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Minnesota Orchestra

The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj; –) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five".

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Mormon Tabernacle Choir

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab or Tab Choir, is a 360-member choir.

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Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich "Slava" Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič,; 27 March 192727 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem (born October 23, 1923) is an American composer and diarist.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic, officially the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc., globally known as New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) or New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States.

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Night Song (1948 film)

Night Song is a 1948 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Dana Andrews, Merle Oberon and Ethel Barrymore.

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On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring is a tone poem composed in 1912 by Frederick Delius; it was first performed in Leipzig on 23 October 1913.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Pablo Casals

Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan:; 29 December 187622 October 1973), usually known in English as Pablo Casals,, The New York Times, 1911-04-09, retrieved 2009-08-01 was a cellist, composer, and conductor from Catalonia, Spain.

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Paul Creston

Paul Creston (born Giuseppe Guttoveggio; October 10, 1906 – August 24, 1985) was an Italian American composer of classical music.

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Peter Wilhousky

Peter J. Wilhousky (Пітер (Петро) Вільховський) (13 July 1902 – 4 January 1978) was an American composer, educator, and choral conductor of Ukrainian ethnic extraction.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Phyllis Curtin

Phyllis Curtin (née Smith; December 3, 1921 – June 5, 2016) was an American classical soprano who had an active career in operas and concerts from the early 1950s through the 1980s.

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Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt)

Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Concerto No. 3 (Bartók)

Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition (Картинки с выставки – Воспоминание о Викторе Гартмане, Kartínki s výstavki – Vospominániye o Víktore Gártmane, "Pictures from an Exhibition – A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann"; Tableaux d'une exposition) is a suite of ten pieces (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for the piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.

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Polovtsian Dances

The Polovtsian Dances, or Polovetsian Dances (Polovetskie plyaski from the Russian "Polovtsy"—the name given to the Kipchaks and Cumans by the Rus' people) form an exotic scene at the end of Act II of Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor.

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Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with the comparable Congressional Gold Medal—the highest civilian award of the United States.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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RCA Red Seal Records

RCA Red Seal is a classical music record label founded in 1902 by Eldridge R. Johnson and currently owned by Sony Music.

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Richard Freed

Richard (Donald) Freed (December 27, 1928 –) is an American music critic, program annotator and administrator of 20th centuries.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Richard P. Condie

Richard P. Condie (July 5, 1898 – December 22, 1985) was the conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1957 to 1974.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

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Richard Yardumian

Richard Yardumian (Ռիչարդ Յարդումյան, April 5, 1917 – August 15, 1985) was an Armenian-American classical music composer.

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Robert Casadesus

Robert Casadesus (7 April 1899 – 19 September 1972) was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer.

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Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer and an influential music critic.

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Roger Sessions

Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music.

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Romantic music

Romantic music is a period of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century.

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Roy Harris

Roy Ellsworth Harris (February 12, 1898 – October 1, 1979) was an American composer.

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Rudolf Serkin

Rudolf Serkin (28 March 1903 – 8 May 1991) was a Bohemian-born pianist.

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Samuel Barber

Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music.

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Samuel Sanford

Samuel Simons Sanford (15 March 18496 January 1910) was an American pianist and educator.

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Serge Koussevitzky

Serge Alexandrovich KoussevitzkyKoussevitzky's original Russian forename is usually transliterated into English as either "Sergei" or "Sergey"; however, he himself adopted the French spelling "Serge", using it in his signature.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Simon Estes

Simon Estes (born March 2, 1938) is an operatic bass-baritone of African-American descent who had a major international opera career beginning in the 1960s.

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Stereophonic sound

Stereophonic sound or, more commonly, stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that creates an illusion of multi-directional audible perspective.

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Symphonia Domestica

Symphonia Domestica (Domestic Symphony), Op. 53, is a tone poem for large orchestra by Richard Strauss.

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Symphonic Dances (Rachmaninoff)

The Symphonic Dances, Op.

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Symphony in E-flat (Tchaikovsky)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony in E-flat, was commenced after the Symphony No. 5, and was intended initially to be the composer's next (i.e. sixth) symphony.

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Symphony No. 1 (Sibelius)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 15 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 4 (Sibelius)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 4 (Tchaikovsky)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 6 (Nielsen)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 6 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 7 (Bruckner)

Anton Bruckner's Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 7 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony: Mathis der Maler

Symphony: Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) is among the most famous orchestral works of German composer Paul Hindemith.

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Telarc International Corporation

Telarc International Corporation is an American audiophile independent record label founded in 1977 by two classically trained musicians and former teachers, Jack Renner and Robert Woods.

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The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker (Щелкунчик, Балет-феерия / Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya; Casse-Noisette, ballet-féerie) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71).

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The Planets

The Planets, Op.

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Thomas Frost

Thomas Frost (born March 7, 1925) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning classical music producer, who won many of his awards for producing the albums of Vladimir Horowitz.

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Tom Krause

Tom Gunnar Krause (July 5, 1934 − December 6, 2013) was a Finnish operatic bass-baritone, particularly associated with Mozart roles.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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University of Pennsylvania Glee Club

Founded in 1862, the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club is one of the oldest continually running glee clubs in the United States and the oldest performing arts group at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Utrenja

Utrenja, alternatively spelled as Utrenia, Utrenya, or Jutrznia, and also incorrectly named Matins, is a set of two liturgical compositions by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.

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Van Cliburn

Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (July 12, 1934February 27, 2013) was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958 (during the Cold War).

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Verklärte Nacht

Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4, is a string sextet in one movement composed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1899.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)

The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, was written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1878, and is one of the best known violin concertos.

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Virgil Fox

Virgil Keel Fox (May 3, 1912 in Princeton, Illinois – October 25, 1980 in Palm Beach, Florida) was an American organist, known especially for his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the music of Bach.

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Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic.

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Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи, Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazi; born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor.

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Vladimir Horowitz

Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (r; r; November 5, 1989)Schonberg, 1992 was a Russian-born American classical pianist and composer.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Walter Piston

Walter Hamor Piston Jr, (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.

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Westminster Choir College

Westminster Choir College is a residential conservatory of music located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.

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William Schuman

William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910February 15, 1992) was an American composer and arts administrator.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American cellist.

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Young People's Concerts

The Young People's Concerts at the New York Philharmonic are the longest-running series of family concerts of classical music in the world.

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Zoltán Kodály

Zoltán Kodály (Kodály Zoltán,; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher.

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References

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