"a result of tension between ethnic minority communities and the city's white majority, stoked by the Anti-Nazi League and the National Front. There were 297 arrests; 187 people charged with riot, 45 with violent disorder leading to 200 jail sentences totalling 604 years. ""Only a few particularly notable names are listed here."" Among Bradford born people who made significant contributions to the arts were David Hockney, painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who was born in the city and educated at Bradford Grammar School. Frederick Delius (1862–1934) was a composer born to a family of German descent in the"
"Perry Bradford Perry Bradford (February 14, 1893, Montgomery, Alabama – April 20, 1970, New York City) was an African-American composer, songwriter, and vaudeville performer. Bradford grew up in Atlanta, where his family moved when he was six, and in 1906 started working in minstrel shows. He played in Chicago as a solo pianist as early as 1909 and visited New York City the following year. Through extensive experience with traveling minstrel shows and theatre companies, Bradford obtained exposure to African-American folksongs. Bradford broke down walls of racial prejudice that had kept African-American singers from recording. He has often been unrecognized"
"irregular participant after the 1940s. With the rise of the Great Depression, Bradford slipped away into obscurity. In later years, he appeared to exaggerate his role in early blues, possibly a reaction to his being nearly forgotten. In 1957, Little Richard had a hit with Bradford's ""Keep A-Knockin'"". In 1965, Bradford's autobiography ""Born With the Blues"" was published (New York: Oak Publications) with a foreword by Noble Sissle. Perry Bradford Perry Bradford (February 14, 1893, Montgomery, Alabama – April 20, 1970, New York City) was an African-American composer, songwriter, and vaudeville performer. Bradford grew up in Atlanta, where his family"
"D. S. Bradford D. S. Bradford (born David Scott Bradford, December 10, 1982) is an American musical artist, filmmaker, singer-songwriter, performer, vocalist, guitarist, and composer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to being a musical performer, Bradford is a visual artist whose works are mostly considered to be surrealism. An example of which is his album art for ""Oceans,"" his debut single (released July 1, 2014). As a filmmaker, Bradford made his directorial debut in his film Good for the Gander in 2018. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, his life started with a natural love of music and art that took hold"
"Batchelder Bradbury (1816-1868) played a significant role in America’s artistic development before the nation reached cultural maturity in the 20th century. Bradbury was born in Maine but grew up in Boston, studying music at the Boston Academy and singing in the church choir of Lowell Mason, one of the country’s first professional composers. At that time there were few formal music schools, and singing was often taught using rudimentary hymn collections and “shape note” manuals such as the Southern Harmony. Bradbury resolved to change this. After moving with his young family to Brooklyn, New York, he organized music festivals, taught"
"Alex Bradford Alex Bradford (January 23, 1927 – February 15, 1978) (professionally known as Professor Alex Bradford) was a multi-talented gospel composer, singer, arranger and choir director, who was an influence on artists such as Little Richard, Bob Marley and Ray Charles, and who helped bring about the modern mass choir movement in gospel. Born in Bessemer, Alabama, United States, he first appeared on stage at the age of four, then joined a children's gospel group at the age of 13, soon obtaining his own radio show. He organized another group after his mother sent him to New York City"
"Bobby Bradford Bobby Lee Bradford (born July 19, 1934) is an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader, and composer. He is noted for his work with Ornette Coleman. In October 2009, Bradford became the second recipient of the Festival of New Trumpet Music's Award of Recognition. Bobby Lee Bradford's life began in Mississippi; he and his family then moved to Dallas, Texas, in 1946. He moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1953 where he reunited with Ornette Coleman, whom he had previously known in Texas. Bradford subsequently joined Coleman's ensemble, but was drafted into the U.S. Air Force and replaced by"
"Gordon Langford Gordon Langford (11 May 1930 – 18 April 2017) was an English composer, arranger and performer. He is well known for his brass band compositions and arrangements. He was also a composer of choral and orchestral music, winning an Ivor Novello award for best light music composition for his ""March from the Colour Suite"" in 1971. Langford was born in Edgware, Middlesex in May 1930 as Gordon Maris Colman. His father was a precision toolmaker. He was a precocious child, beginning piano lessons aged five. At nine, one of his compositions received a public performance. He attended Bedford"
"Richard Drakeford Richard Jeremy Drakeford (5 November 1936 – 12 November 2009) was a British composer of classical music. Drakeford was a composition pupil of Herbert Howells and Edmund Rubbra and studied at Worcester College, Oxford where he was the Organ Scholar. He was one of the founders, in 1961, of the Little Missenden [Music] Festival and acted as its Music Advisor until his death. Several of his compositions were published by Novello. He was also active as a music teacher and critic, writing for several publications including The Musical Times. He taught music at Harrow School between 1961 and"
"William Batchelder Bradbury William Batchelder Bradbury (October 6, 1816 – January 7, 1868) was a musician who composed the tune to ""Jesus Loves Me"" and many other popular hymns. He was born on October 6, 1816 in York, Maine where his father was the leader of a church choir. He had a brother, Edward G. Bradbury. He moved with his parents to Boston and met Lowell Mason, and by 1834 was known as an organist. In 1840, he began teaching in Brooklyn, New York. In 1847 he went to Germany, where he studied harmony, composition, and vocal and instrumental music"
"composers to use the style that best expressed their artistic desires. For a complete list of works, see his works list on the Bradshaw archive page. Many of Bradshaw's works were unpublished or are not out-of-print, as Bradshaw did not seek publishers for his work. Merrill Bradshaw Merrill Bradshaw (18 June 1929 – 12 July 2000 in St. George, Utah) was an American composer and professor at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he was composer-in-residence 1967–1994. Bradshaw grew up in Lyman, Wyoming, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Portland, Oregon. He studied music theory at Brigham Young University (BYU) with John"
"Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, and Pomona College in Claremont, California. With John Carter With David Ornette Cherry With Circulasione Totale Orchestra With Nels Cline With Ornette Coleman With Chris Fagan With Freebop With Frode Gjerstad Quartet With Vinny Golia With David Murray With New Art Jazz Ensemble With William Parker With John Rapson With Thomas Tedesco With Bob Thiele With Michael Vlatkovich Bobby Bradford Bobby Lee Bradford (born July 19, 1934) is an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader, and composer. He is noted for his work with Ornette Coleman. In October 2009, Bradford became the second recipient of"
"Robert Radford Robert Radford (13 May 1874, Nottingham3 March 1933, London) was a British bass singer who made his career entirely in the United Kingdom, participating in concerts and becoming one of the foremost performers of oratorios and other sacred music. He had equally great success in a broad spectrum of operatic roles, ranging from Wagner to Gilbert and Sullivan, due to the strength and burnished beauty of his well-trained voice. Even as a young man, Radford possessed a deep and resonant voice. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, mainly under the conductor Alberto Randegger, but"
"Hugh Blandford Hugh Francis Blandford (24 January 1917 – 20 September 1981) was a chess endgame composer born in Southampton, England. He spent several years of his childhood in Jamaica with his father, the Reverend Albert Francis (Frank) Blandford, a Minister in the Congregational church, his mother and two younger brothers, Evan Arthur and Philip Thomas Blandford. All three brothers then returned to England and attended Eltham College (the School for the Sons of Missionaries) in South-east London, while their parents remained in Jamaica. He married Marjorie Cox, whom he had worked with during the Second World War. He played"
"George Posford George Posford, born Benjamin George Ashwell (23 March 1906 in Folkestone – 24 April 1976 in Worplesdon), was an English composer. Graduating from Cambridge University, Posford planned a law career but the successful interpolation in an early 1930s touring version of Lavender of a song he had written with Rodney Hobson prompted him towards a new career. After studying at the Royal College of Music, Posford composed many songs, often with librettist-lyricist Eric Maschwitz. For radio, they wrote ""Goodnight Vienna"", which then became a 1932 film, starring Anna Neagle and Jack Buchanan (US title: Magic Night), and a"
"Florence Aylward Florence Aylward (10 March 1862 – 14 October 1950) was an English composer known for ballads. Aylward was born at Brede Rectory in Brede, East Sussex, England in 1862, the daughter of the Rector of Brede, Augustus Aylward and his wife Mary, who was the eldest daughter of Thomas Frewen of Brickwall in Sussex. Aylward studied at the Guildhall School. Aylward began composing at an early age, and her songs began to be performed at local concerts when she was 12. Aylward's early composition efforts caught the attention of William Boosey, of the publisher Boosey & Hawkes. Aylward's"
"she published at least 150 songs. Selected works include: ""Vitai Lampada"" (1900, words by Henry Newbolt) Florence Aylward Florence Aylward (10 March 1862 – 14 October 1950) was an English composer known for ballads. Aylward was born at Brede Rectory in Brede, East Sussex, England in 1862, the daughter of the Rector of Brede, Augustus Aylward and his wife Mary, who was the eldest daughter of Thomas Frewen of Brickwall in Sussex. Aylward studied at the Guildhall School. Aylward began composing at an early age, and her songs began to be performed at local concerts when she was 12. Aylward's"
"Gamaliel Bradford (biographer) Gamaliel Bradford (October 9, 1863 – April 11, 1932) was an American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the sixth of seven men called Gamaliel Bradford in unbroken succession, of whom the first, Gamaliel Bradford, was a great-grandson of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. His grandfather, Dr. Gamaliel Bradford of Boston, was a noted abolitionist. Bradford attended Harvard University briefly with the class of 1886, then continued his education with a private tutor, but is said to have been educated ""mainly by ill-health and a vagrant imagination."" As an adult, Bradford lived"
"to compose chess endgame studies until the end of his life, dying of a heart attack in early retirement in Hatfield, England, on 20 September 1981. This example of the excelsior theme might be his best-known composition. Solution: 6.Kxc6? stalemate; 6.c8=Q+? Nb8+ 7.K-any stalemate. Winning. Bibliography Hugh Blandford Hugh Francis Blandford (24 January 1917 – 20 September 1981) was a chess endgame composer born in Southampton, England. He spent several years of his childhood in Jamaica with his father, the Reverend Albert Francis (Frank) Blandford, a Minister in the Congregational church, his mother and two younger brothers, Evan Arthur and"
"Michael Bradford Michael Bradford (born 1961, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States) is an American musician. A native of Detroit, Michigan he is known mainly as a bass guitarist but also plays guitar and keyboards, and has done extensive work in music production and engineering. Among others, Bradford has worked with Madonna, Youngstown, Kid Rock and in music for films. He was born and raised on Detroit's East Side, an area that was once a working-class neighborhood, but quickly deteriorated into decay after the city's tumultuous riots in 1967. The late 1960s and early 1970s were also a remarkable time"
"George Whitefield Chadwick George Whitefield Chadwick (November 13, 1854 – April 4, 1931) was an American composer. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what is called the Second New England School of American composers of the late 19th century—the generation before Charles Ives. Chadwick's works are influenced by the Realist movement in the arts, characterized by a down-to-earth depiction of people's lives. His works included several operas, three symphonies, five string quartets, tone poems, incidental music, songs and choral anthems. Along with a group of other"
"Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye Helen Selina Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (""née"" Sheridan, 18 January 1807 – 13 June 1867), later Countess of Gifford, was a British songwriter, composer, poet, and author. Admired for her wit and literary talents, she was a well-known figure in London society of the mid-19th century. Helen Sheridan came from a literary and theatrical family with political connections. Her father, Thomas Sheridan (1775–1817), an actor, soldier and colonial administrator, was the younger son of famous Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and her mother was Caroline Henrietta Sheridan (""née"" Callander), a novelist. In 1813,"
"Bradford College (1918-1930). In 1922 he became conductor of the Newbury Symphony Orchestra. From 1931 to 1957 he was head of music at Clifton College. In 1953 he was awarded the OBE. He died in September 1978. Douglas Fox (organist) Dr Douglas Gerard Arthur Fox (born Putney, July 1893 - died Bristol, September 1978) was an English pianist, organist and music teacher. Fox was born into a musical family; his father played violin and cello, his mother the piano. His mother may have been a distant relative of Thomas Ravenscroft. In 1902 the family moved to Bristol. An outstanding organist"
"stroke, as the musical ""Your Arms Too Short to Box with God"" was in production. He was 51 years old. Alex Bradford Alex Bradford (January 23, 1927 – February 15, 1978) (professionally known as Professor Alex Bradford) was a multi-talented gospel composer, singer, arranger and choir director, who was an influence on artists such as Little Richard, Bob Marley and Ray Charles, and who helped bring about the modern mass choir movement in gospel. Born in Bessemer, Alabama, United States, he first appeared on stage at the age of four, then joined a children's gospel group at the age of"
"Tadd Dameron Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) was an American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon called him the ""romanticist"" of the bop movement, while reviewer Scott Yanow wrote that Dameron was the ""definitive arranger/composer of the bop era"". Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dameron was the most influential arranger of the bebop era, but also wrote charts for swing and hard bop players. The bands he arranged for included those of Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, and Sarah Vaughan. In 1940-41 he was the piano player and"
"survey ""The Record of Singing"". He is the subject, too, of a brief story in Peter Dawson's autobiography. Norman Allin, 10 years his junior, was his greatest successor among English basses. Robert Radford Robert Radford (13 May 1874, Nottingham3 March 1933, London) was a British bass singer who made his career entirely in the United Kingdom, participating in concerts and becoming one of the foremost performers of oratorios and other sacred music. He had equally great success in a broad spectrum of operatic roles, ranging from Wagner to Gilbert and Sullivan, due to the strength and burnished beauty of his"
"George Ratcliffe Woodward George Ratcliffe Woodward (27 December 1848 – 3 March 1934) was an English Anglican priest who wrote mostly religious verse, both original and translated from ancient authors. The best-known of these were written to fit traditional melodies, mainly of the Renaissance. He sometimes harmonised these melodies himself, but usually left this to his frequent collaborator, composer Charles Wood. Woodward was born at 26 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead and educated in Elstree, Hertfordshire, then Harrow School. In 1867 he won a Sayer Scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating in 1872, third class in the Classics Tripos. On"
"of maximum use by just helping him or her to bring that out and get their point across."" Michael Bradford Michael Bradford (born 1961, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States) is an American musician. A native of Detroit, Michigan he is known mainly as a bass guitarist but also plays guitar and keyboards, and has done extensive work in music production and engineering. Among others, Bradford has worked with Madonna, Youngstown, Kid Rock and in music for films. He was born and raised on Detroit's East Side, an area that was once a working-class neighborhood, but quickly deteriorated into decay"
"Thompson Ltd of Toronto. He also made transcriptions of baroque and romantic music for string quartet or orchestra. Original compositions by Blachford include (1929) for violin and piano, ""Idylle"" and ""Romance"" for solo violin and strings and ""Suite from the Ontario Northlands"" for orchestra, as well as a number of songs and other vocal music. Blachford died in Calgary at the age of 77 while on an examining trip for the Royal Conservatory of Music. Frank Edward Blachford Frank Edward Blachford (December 28, 1879 – June 24, 1957) was a Canadian violinist, teacher, conductor and composer. Blachford was born in"
"George Butterworth George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC (12 July 18855 August 1916) was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll ""The Banks of Green Willow"" and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from ""A Shropshire Lad"". Butterworth was born in Paddington, London. Soon after his birth, his family moved to York so that his father Sir Alexander Kaye Butterworth could take up an appointment as general manager of the North Eastern Railway, which was based there. Their home was at Riseholme, a house on Driffield Terrace, which later became part of the Mount School."
"Welsh Composer was T. J. (Tom) Powell, born in Tredegar in 1897, also known as ""The Welsh Sousa"". Powell composed over 500 pieces for brass bands, including marches (such as ""The Castle Marches""), tone poems and suites. Other notable composers include: Several classical composers have written music specifically for brass band. These include: One of the main advantages of the brass band is that it is portable and capable of playing at any time and anywhere, even on the march. Marching and outdoor functions have been the preserve of the brass band for well over a century. Many UK brass"
"twenty recordings since Harty's 1936 set. William Walton Sir William Turner Walton, OM (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ""Façade"", the cantata ""Belshazzar's Feast"", the Viola Concerto and the First Symphony. Born in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of a musician, Walton was a chorister and then an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. On leaving the university, he was taken up by the literary Sitwell siblings, who provided him with a home and a cultural education."
"Brad Hatfield Brad Hatfield (born May 15, 1956, in Columbus, Ohio) is a musician, arranger, and Emmy Award winning composer. He is a regular performer on piano and keyboards with the Boston Pops Orchestra. He has also performed with the Utah Symphony and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His arrangements, orchestrations and compositions have been performed by the Boston Pops, Houston Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Hatfield's songs have appeared in the films ""Iron Man 2"", ""Borat"", ""Analyze This"", ""The Break-Up"", and ""Cop Land"". His music has also appeared in more than two dozen television series, including ""The"