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51Francis Judd Cooke — (b. Honolulu, Hawaii, December 28, 1910; d. Lexington, Massachusetts, May 1995) was an American composer, organist, cellist, pianist, conductor, choir director, and professor.Cooke was born in Honolulu to a family of New England missionaries… …
52Ceiri Torjussen — (born 1976) is an Emmy nominated composer who has contributed music to dozens of film and television productions in the U.S.His music was described by the Los Angeles Times as a “sudden bolt of creative lightning”, and he was hailed in a UK… …
53Alex Heffes — is a British film composer (born 1971 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire). His film scores include the BAFTA winning Touching the Void (film) , and Oscar winning movies One Day in September and Last King of Scotland .He graduated from Oxford… …
54John Webb (composer) — John Webb (born 1969) is an English composer. BiographyHe was educated in Essex where he started playing the piano and viola. He began to compose at 14, and two years later attended Colchester Institute. Here he studied piano with Frank Wibaut… …
55Serafina Steer — Infobox musical artist | Name = Serafina Steer Img capt = Serafina performing at Corbet Place, 2006. Img size = Background = Birth name = Alias = Born = 1982 in London, England Died = Origin = Instrument = Harp, Keyboard Genre = Kitchen Sink,… …
56arts, East Asian — Introduction music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature. Some studies of East Asia… …
57Olivier Messiaen — in 1946 Olivier Messiaen (French pronunciation: [ɔlivje mɛsjɑ̃]; December 10, 1908 – Apri …
58stringed instrument — a musical instrument having strings as the medium of sound production, played with the fingers or with a plectrum or a bow: The guitar, the harp, and the violin are stringed instruments. * * * Any musical instrument that produces sound by the… …
59music, Western — Introduction history of Western music from ancient times to the present. All ancient civilizations entered historical times with a flourishing musical culture. That the earliest writers explained it in terms of legend and myth is… …
60Arthur Sullivan — This article is about the composer. For the Australian soldier decorated with the VC, see Arthur Percy Sullivan. Arthur …
