"Meet the Wife Meet the Wife is a 1960s BBC situation comedy written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with Thora Hird as his tyrannical wife, Thora. It ran for five series. The series was based on a 1963 BBC television ""Comedy Playhouse"" production, ""The Bed"". The theme tune was by Russ Conway and incidental music by Norman Percival and later Dennis Wilson. The producers were John Paddy Carstairs and later Robin Nash. The series followed the various ups and downs of a middle-aged married couple. Of the two, Fred was the ""straight"
"Artie Kane Artie Kane (born Aaron Cohen; April 14, 1929) is an American pianist, film score composer, and conductor with a career spanning over six decades. As a pianist in Hollywood studios, Kane worked with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, John Williams, and Quincy Jones. He composed the music for over 250 television shows. Some of his works for television include ""Wonder Woman"", ""Vegas"", Hotel, ""Dynasty"", ""Matlock"", ""A Question of Guilt"", ""Man Against the Mob"". Kane also composed the film scores for five motion pictures including ""Looking for Mr. Goodbar"", ""Eyes of Laura Mars"", ""Night of the Juggler"","
"Gene de Paul Gene Vincent de Paul (June 17, 1919 – February 27, 1988) was an American pianist, composer and songwriter. Born in New York City, he served in the United States Army during World War II. Married to Billye Louise Files (November 23, 1924 - January 30, 1977) of Jack County, Texas. He joined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1941 and went on to compose the music for many motion pictures. He was nominated (with Don Raye) for an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song in 1942 for the song ""Pig Foot Pete"""
"Television Theme Song. David Meece David Meece (born May 26, 1952) is an American contemporary Christian musician who enjoyed success in the mid 1980s throughout the early 2000s with more than 30 Top 10 hits (several reaching No. 1). Growing up in Humble, Texas, with an abusive, alcoholic father, Meece found solace in playing the piano. By his mid-teens he was touring in Europe and the US. He went on to study music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he met his wife, Debbie, who plays the viola. Meece and his wife currently live in Franklin, Tennessee. Meece worked"
"Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's ""The Piano"". He has written a number of operas, including ""The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat""; ""Letters, Riddles and Writs""; ""Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs""; ""Facing Goya""; """"; ""Love Counts""; and ""Sparkie: Cage and Beyond"". He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael"
"John La Montaine John Maynard La Montaine, also later LaMontaine, (March 17, 1920 – April 29, 2013) was an American pianist and composer, born in Oak Park, Illinois, who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Piano Concerto No. 1 ""In Time of War"" (1958), which was premiered by Jorge Bolet. His teachers included Howard Hanson, Bernard Rogers, and Nadia Boulanger. His works have been performed by Jessye Norman and Jorge Bolet. In honor of the American Bicentennial celebration in 1976, he was commissioned to create a choral work for the Penn State Institute for Arts and Humanistic"
"Award. John Tesh John Frank Tesh (born July 9, 1952) is an American pianist and composer of pop music, as well as a radio host and television presenter. His ten-year-old ""Intelligence for Your Life"" radio show airs on nearly 300 stations, and is syndicated by Teshmedia in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. In addition, since 2014, he has hosted ""Intelligence for Your Life TV"" with his wife Connie Sellecca. The syndicated TV program airs on 174 stations that cover 93% of the potential U.S. television audience. Tesh has won six Emmys, has four gold albums, two Grammy nominations, and"
"Frederic Rzewski Frederic Anthony Rzewski ( ; born April 13, 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts) is an American composer and virtuoso pianist. His major compositions, which often incorporate social and political themes, include the minimalist ""Coming Together"" and the piano variations ""The People United Will Never Be Defeated!"" Rzewski began playing piano at age 5. He attended Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Milton Babbitt. In 1960, he went to Italy, a trip that was formative in his future musical development. In addition to studying with Luigi Dallapiccola, he began a"
"as a performer. He died of leukemia in 1945. Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion The Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115, is a musical piece written by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók in 1937. It was premiered by Bartók and his second wife, Ditta Pásztory-Bartók, with the percussionists Fritz Schiesser and Philipp Rühlig at the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) anniversary concert of 16 January 1938 in Basel, Switzerland, where it received enthusiastic reviews. Bartók and his wife also played the piano parts for the American premiere which took place in New York City's Town"
"Jerry Livingston Jerry Livingston (born Jerry Levinson, March 25, 1909 – July 1, 1987) was an American songwriter and dance orchestra pianist. Born in Denver, Colorado, Livingston studied music at the University of Arizona. While there he composed his first score for a college musical. He moved to New York City in the 1930s, initially working as a pianist for dance orchestras. From the 1940s to the 1960s he had written songs for numerous films and television series, including ""Cinderella"" (1950), ""Bronco"" (1958), ""77 Sunset Strip"" (television series, 1958), ""Hawaiian Eye"" (television series, 1959), ""Bourbon Street Beat"" (television series, 1959),"
"Neil Richardson (composer) Neil Grant Richardson (5 February 1930 – 8 October 2010) was an English composer and conductor. As a composer, he is perhaps best known for ""Approaching Menace"" (the ""Mastermind"" theme tune) and ""The Riviera Affair"". During the 1960s–1990s, he was an arranger and conductor of various BBC Radio Orchestras, working on programmes such as ""String Sound"" and ""The Radio Orchestra Show"". He was a prolific composer of library music for companies such as KPM, and his music has been used in numerous TV, film and radio productions. The son of a Worcestershire clergyman, Neil Richardson was born"
"Al Lerner (composer) Al Lerner (1919 – January 19, 2014) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor from the big band era. He was a member of the Harry James band for many years, playing piano. He wrote music for several artists, including Allan Sherman and Liza Minnelli. He also wrote the music for ""So Until I See You"", the closing theme for ""The Tonight Show with Jack Paar"" in the early 1960s, and was the pianist for ""A Tribute to Eddie Duchin"", which was a soundtrack for the 1956 biographical film pic ""The Eddy Duchin Story"". Lerner was"
"featured footage from the Rank Organisation's 1960s ""Look at Life"" newsreels. He also orchestrated and conducted some of Richard Rodney Bennett's film music, such as for the 1994 film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"" and ""Enchanted April"". He was also an arranger for numerous television productions including ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"" and ""The Charmer"". Neil Richardson (composer) Neil Grant Richardson (5 February 1930 – 8 October 2010) was an English composer and conductor. As a composer, he is perhaps best known for ""Approaching Menace"" (the ""Mastermind"" theme tune) and ""The Riviera Affair"". During the 1960s–1990s, he was an arranger and conductor"
"John Tesh John Frank Tesh (born July 9, 1952) is an American pianist and composer of pop music, as well as a radio host and television presenter. His ten-year-old ""Intelligence for Your Life"" radio show airs on nearly 300 stations, and is syndicated by Teshmedia in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. In addition, since 2014, he has hosted ""Intelligence for Your Life TV"" with his wife Connie Sellecca. The syndicated TV program airs on 174 stations that cover 93% of the potential U.S. television audience. Tesh has won six Emmys, has four gold albums, two Grammy nominations, and an"
"Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight, 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriting partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums. John has sold more than 300million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. He has more than fifty Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive number one albums in the U.S., 58 ""Billboard"" Top 40 singles, 27 Top 10, four which reached number two and nine which reached number one. His tribute single ""Candle in"
"Harry Lubin Harry Lubin (March 5, 1906 – July 21, 1977) was an American composer, arranger, and pianist. He is known for composing the theme and much of the music for the second season of the television series ""The Outer Limits"". Lubin's professional career spanned over forty years, as a composer and conductor in many Broadway productions and recordings, the concert stage, in radio, television and motion pictures. He worked with many top names in entertainment, including Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Robert Weade, Selma Kaye, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Fran Warren, and Connie Haines. Lubin began his career"
"Bartlett and Robertson Ethel Bartlett (1896–1978) and Rae Robertson (1893–1956), popularly known as Bartlett and Robertson, were a husband-and-wife classical piano duo who were credited with popularising two-piano music in Europe and the United States in the 1930s and 1940s through their extensive touring, recordings, and radio performances. Of English and Scottish background respectively, Bartlett and Robertson met during their studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and married in 1921. Although they initially pursued solo careers, they teamed up as duo-pianists in the late 1920s and conducted annual international tours for over two decades. Several major composers"
"Steven Gellman, Dina Koston, Steve Reich, Luca Francesconi, Giulio Castagnoli, Flavio Emilio Scogna, William Schimmel and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead. All this time Berio had been steadily composing and building a reputation, winning the Prix Italia in 1966 for ""Laborintus II"". His reputation was cemented when his ""Sinfonia"" was premiered in 1968. In 1972, Berio returned to Italy. From 1974 to 1980 he was director of the electro-acoustic division of IRCAM in Paris, and in 1977 he married the musicologist Talia Pecker. In 1987 he opened Tempo Reale, a centre for musical research and production based in Florence."
"soundtracks for television programs and films, including the soundtracks for ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" and ""Places in the Heart"". His breakthrough as a concert artist came in 1986 when he performed the world premiere of Henry Cowell's ""Harmonica Concerto"" with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lukas Foss. Bonfiglio is married to the flautist Clare Hoffman. The couple founded the Grand Canyon Music Festival in 1984 and continue to serve as its artistic directors. Bonfiglio's recordings include: Robert Bonfiglio Robert Bonfiglio (born September 6, 1950) is an American classical harmonica player. Described by the music critic for the ""Los Angeles"
"Kenneth Ascher Kenneth Lee ""Kenny"" Ascher (born October 26, 1944 in Washington, D.C.) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who is active in jazz, rock, classical, and musical theater genres — in live venues, recording studios, and cinema production. With Paul Williams, he wrote the song ""Rainbow Connection"" for ""The Muppet Movie"". Both Williams and Ascher received Oscar nominations for the 1979 Academy Awards for Best Original Song (""Rainbow Connection"") and Best Original Score (""The Muppet Movie"" Soundtrack). The song was also nominated for the Golden Globes for ""Best Original Song"" that same year. Ascher's work through the"
"the 2006 Danish Film Academy Awards. His subsequent score for Rupert Wyatt's suspense thriller ""The Escapist"" earned him a nomination as Best Original Film Score in the 2009 Ivor Novello Awards and his second nomination in the 2008 World Soundtrack Awards. Wallfisch resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife Missy. Benjamin Wallfisch Benjamin Mark Lasker Wallfisch (born 7 August 1979) is an English composer, conductor, and pianist. Since the mid-2000s, he has composed and contributed to music for over 60 feature films. His compositions include original scores for ""A Cure For Wellness"", ""Hidden Figures"", ""Lights Out"", ""Desert Dancer"", ""It"","
"Ruth Laredo Ruth Laredo (November 20, 1937May 25, 2005) was an American classical pianist. She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Scriabin and the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff, for her Ravel recordings and in the last years before her death for her series in the Metropolitan Museum of Art “Concerts with Commentary”. She was often referred to as “America's First Lady of the Piano”. Ruth Meckler was born on November 20, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan, the elder of two daughters of Miriam Meckler-Horowitz, a piano teacher, and Ben"
"on July 6, 1920. They were the parents of three daughters, Diana (1922–2011), Patricia (1924–27), and Valerie (1930–77). Lee Pattison Lee Pattison (July 22, 1890, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin – December 22, 1966, Claremont, California) was a noted American pianist, composer, arranger, opera director, and teacher. From about 1919 until 1931 he was a member of the popular two-piano team of Guy Maier and Lee Pattison. Lee Pattison Recital Hall at Scripps College in Claremont, California, is named for him. Lee (Marion) Pattison was born in Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, on July 22, 1890. His father, Joseph Marion Pattison, was a public"
"George Enescu, Howard Hanson, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Paul Hindemith, Bohuslav Martinů, Darius Milhaud, Rebecca Helferich Clarke, Cyril Rootham and Albert Roussel. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge aka Liz Coolidge (30 October 1864 – 4 November 1953), born Elizabeth Penn Sprague, was an American pianist and patron of music, especially of chamber music. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's father was a wealthy wholesale dealer in Chicago. She was musically talented and studied piano as well as composition. She married the physician Frederic Shurtleff Coolidge who died from syphilis contracted from a patient during surgery, leaving her with their only child Albert. Soon"
"character Claude Maginot in 2002's """". He appeared briefly as himself in the second episode of the ""Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"" TV series, conducting the fictional ""West Coast Philharmonic."" Mauceri lives in New York City with his wife, Betty. John Mauceri John Francis Mauceri (born September 12, 1945) is an American conductor, producer, educator and writer. Since making his professional conducting debut almost half a century ago, Mauceri has appeared with most of the world's great orchestras, guest conducted at the premiere opera houses, produced and musically supervised Tony and Olivier Award-winning Broadway musicals, and served as university"
"first time at a game in 2008 Wright was married for over 30 years to Rosalinda, head of the foreign languages department at Tallahassee Community College with whom he had 3 daughters. He had also three other daughters from previous marriages. Three of his children went on to pursue music in adulthood, one as a voice teacher, one as a pianist, and one as a broadway performer. He died in Tallahassee Memorial Hospital on May 8, 2014. Tommie Wright Tommie Wright (March 21, 1919 – May 8, 2014) was an American pianist, composer and professor best known for composing the"
"his wife Halina Szpilman and son Andrzej, and Wilm Hosenfeld's daughter Jorinde Krejci-Hosenfeld. The next day, on the exact centenary of Szpilman's birth, Polish President Bronisław Komorowski met Szpilman's widow and son, and Krejci-Hosenfeld. Uri Caine, an American classical and jazz pianist and composer, created his own interpretations of Szpilman’s works in a variety of genres. The CD of Caine's concert was released on 24 February 2014. Władysław Szpilman Władysław Szpilman (; 5 December 19116 July 2000) was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski"
"Pete Wendling Pete Wendling (June 6, 1888 – April 7, 1974) was an American composer and pianist, born in New York City to German immigrants. He started his working life as a carpenter, but gained fame during the mid 1910s as a popular music composer - producing such hits as ""Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula"", ""Take Me To The Land Of Jazz"", ""Take Your Girlie To The Movies"", ""Felix The Cat"", and ""Oh What A Pal Is Mary"". More however, Wendling was also one of the top pianists of his era, and set a long-standing record when he appeared at the"
"was appointed Musical Director. Albert Stoessel composed the opera ""Garrick"" in 1936, wrote a treatise in 1919 entitled ""The Technique of the Baton"", and composed a number of violin, piano, choral, and orchestra pieces. His wife, Julia Pickard Stoessel, had also been a violin student in Berlin. They were married June 27, 1917, and had two sons, Edward and Fredric. He conducted the United States premiere of the Piano Concerto in D flat by Aram Khachaturian, on 14 March 1942, with soloist Maro Ajemian and the Juilliard Graduate School. It was while on stage conducting an orchestra for American Academy"
"Review of Books, Broadwayworld.com and many more. Roven and Marc Shaiman appeared together as the two News Theme Writers in James L. Brooks's ""Broadcast News"". On Wednesday, July 25, 2018, Roven died at the age of 61. Glen Roven Glen Paul Roven (July 13, 1958 – July 25, 2018) was an American two-time Emmy winning composer, lyricist, conductor and producer. He composed the music to ""The Hillary Speeches"" setting two of Mrs. Clinton's speeches to music which streamed opposite Trump's inauguration and featured opera stars Patricia Racette, Isabel Leonard, Nathan Gunn, Lawrence Brownlee, Mathew Polenzani, Kyle Ketelson and 23 others."
"pianist Marian McPartland for NPR. The date was February 19, 2004. Ruth Laredo Ruth Laredo (November 20, 1937May 25, 2005) was an American classical pianist. She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Scriabin and the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff, for her Ravel recordings and in the last years before her death for her series in the Metropolitan Museum of Art “Concerts with Commentary”. She was often referred to as “America's First Lady of the Piano”. Ruth Meckler was born on November 20, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan, the elder"
"Lil Hardin Armstrong Lil Hardin Armstrong (February 3, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader. She was the second wife of Louis Armstrong, with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s. Her compositions include ""Struttin' with Some Barbecue"", ""Don't Jive Me"", ""Two Deuces"", ""Knee Drops"", ""Doin' the Suzie-Q"", ""Just for a Thrill"" (which was a hit when revived by Ray Charles in 1959), ""Clip Joint"", and ""Bad Boy"" (a hit for Ringo Starr in 1978). Armstrong was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2014. She was born Lillian"
"and ""Porgy and Bess"". Citations George Gershwin George Jacob Gershwin (; born Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz, September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ""Rhapsody in Blue"" (1924) and ""An American in Paris"", the songs ""Swanee"" (1919) and ""Fascinating Rhythm"" (1924), the jazz standard ""I Got Rhythm"" (1930), and the opera ""Porgy and Bess"" (1935) which spawned the hit ""Summertime"". Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. He began his career"