Word: accompanists
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Performers said they relished being reunited on stage with their former classmates. James M. Harkless ’52 said he was pleased to sing with his former accompanist from the Harvard Glee Club, Richard L. Sogg...
...present a unique version of the tune," says Gold. "This type of thinking has to be able to happen for companies to be innovative." During a 90-minute presentation with a live ensemble, Gold shows, with words and music, how jazz players trade the roles of leader and accompanist, sending one another body cues to signal change...
...musician, which was how the young Moore got his start in the entertainment business - first as a chorister and organist in his parish church in Dagenham, near London, then to Oxford on a scholarship as an organist. In 1960 Moore was recruited for a comic accompanist's gig on the seminal London-to-Broadway four-man comedy review Beyond the Fringe, which starred the lanky British comic Peter Cook. Moore and Cook hit it off, and an odd-couple collaboration was born that put the little man on the path to Hollywood stardom...
...grew up in a musical family, though music kept his father away from home for long stretches. As piano accompanist for John Charles Thomas, who billed himself "America's Favorite Baritone" in the first half of the century, his father traveled with the man who introduced "Home on the Range" to American folk tradition and who hosted a popular radio show called the "Westinghouse Hour...
Anticipation hung in the air as the virtuoso sat down, tuned, the concentration evident on his face. Then he tuned to his accompanist, smiled, and began a two hour performance so complete in its exhibition of the skills of the violinist that the audience was left...