Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ORGAN INAGURAL concert, by its very infrequence, is bound to attract attention. All the more so in the case of the most recent dedication in Cambridge the First Church`s new instrument marks the first appearacne in this country of an organ designed by the firm of Theodor Frobenius & Sons of Copenhagen...
Like Humperdinck, Mills was born in India, the son of a British soldier. Like Jones, he grew up in Wales (after his father returned to the little mining town of Tonypandy). As a young man just out of the army, Gordon began playing a mouth organ in theaters and clubs, eventually becoming the harmonica champion of Wales. He gravitated to London, landed a job with the Morton Fraser Harmonica Gang, formed a vocal group called the Viscounts, then tried his hand at songwriting...
...Symphony Orchestra four years ago. Previn is England's newest cottage industry, a musician in constant permutation-conductor-composer, composer-pianist, pianist-conductor-producing music in such unremitting abundance on television, recordings and in the concert halls that one expects any day to find him busking with mouth organ for the queues at the Palladium...
Born in Los Angeles, Newman had a lawyer father and a mother who played the piano for enjoyment. At five, he says, "Bach just wildly turned me on." As soon as his legs could reach the pedals, he took up the organ. After graduating from high school he studied...
Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. A year later he went to New York for piano studies with Edith Oppens, later won first prize for a solo organ piece in the Nice International Composition Competition, an M.A. in composition from Harvard and a doctorate from Boston University. Still, it was his gifts as a performer that earned him a Columbia Records contract in 1967 and dazzled the New York critics at a recital in 1971 (wrote the Times: "A keyboard technician of staggering facility, on the scale of Horowitz...