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Pianos and Their Makers. Development of the Piano Industry in America. DEAGAN ORGAN CHIMES J.C. Deagan and Company is known as a manufacturer of marimbas and xylophones. In fact, it was the company's founder, J.C. Deagan, who probably did the most to popularize these instruments in the United States and. 1970) The music of Canadian-American composer Karim Al-Zand (b.1970) has been called “strong and startlingly lovely” (Boston Globe). His compositions are wide-ranging in influence and inspiration, and encompass solo, chamber, vocal and. Jesse French Piano Company, Nashville, TNPiano Rags, Jesse French, and Their Relationship to. Starr Piano Company. Jesse French Piano Company Affiliations. Albert Krell, Jr. Jesse French & Sons. P. Starck. Ragtime, 1. James M. Houck. Jesse French Sheet Music. Jesse French Piano Belonging to Mara French. What Date Is Your Jesse French Piano? How Much is Your Jesse. French Piano Worth? Owners of Jesse French Pianos. Jesse French Piano Company, Nashville, TNJesse French & Sons Piano, Serial #6. Jesse French, the. French was the founder of one, and intimately associated. United States. It has always been. Jesse French & Sons instruments the very. The Jesse French &. Sons' piano is an artistic production, the culmination of years of experience. They are made in grands. Every part of the. New Castle, Ind., erected especially for the purpose and equipped. Jesse French & Sons pianos. For. in them, the question of quality is paramount and the desire to excel a very. Two expressive mottos are well known in this connection, viz.. An example of a Jesse French/Selmer upright. Piano Rags, Jesse French, and Their Relationship to the Starr Piano Company. Abstracted from an article by David Joyner, Ph. D., of. Pacific Lutheran University. From the Starr- Gennett. Foundation Website: http: //www. Louis and Nashville with stores throughout the South and Midwest, making. New York and the Northeast. To. further his own business, French involved himself indirectly with the. Mississippi Valley ragtime composers. Ragtime historians. French was also an important family and business member of. Starr and Gennett piano and recording enterprise. Lumsden was born in Southhampton, England in 1. America in. 1. 84. He married in 1. 84. Callie married. Jesse French in 1. Maria married Oscar Addison Field in 1. Alice. married Henry Gennett in 1. The men these three. French. empire, which came to include Starr and Gennett. French started his company in Nashville and was soon. In 1. 88. 3, he entered business in St. Louis with his brother- in- law. Oscar Addison Field, first as Field, French, and Company, then as the. Field- French Piano Company. Field was born in New York State in 1. Nashville in 1. 87. French), married John Lumsden's daughter Maria in 1. St. Under the leadership of Field, French, and Lumsden. Field- French Piano Company was incorporated in 1. The Jesse French. Piano and Organ Company of St. Lumsden, who had been in partnership with French and Field separately and. St. Louis in 1. 88. By the time of its incorporation, The Jesse French Piano and. Organ Company was a gigantic retailer of pianos and organs. Based in Nashville. Memphis, Little Rock, St. Louis, Dallas, Birmingham, and. Montgomery, with a force of one hundred traveling salesmen. The company had. grown large enough that it decided to manufacture its own line of pianos. To. this end, it turned its interests to the Starr Piano Company of Richmond. Indiana. In 1. 87. James Starr (1. 82. Richard. Jackson and George Trayser to produce pianos in Richmond. In 1. 88. 4, the Richmond firm. James M. Around the same time, the company moved. Whitewater River Valley Gorge. In. 1. 89. 3, the controlling interest of the company went to Field, French, and the. Jesse French Piano and Organ Company. Merger negotiations. April 7, 1. 89. 3, when the new Starr Piano. Company was organized. The quality pianos produced by this merger were. Chicago Columbian Exposition, the. The Starr Piano Company. Starr, Jesse French. Cumberland, Duchess, Gennett, Minum. Trayser, Royal, Pullman, Remington, Coronado, and. Richmond pianos. John Lumsden had involved himself. Starr Company long before Jesse French did, and it was probably he who. Starr and French together. Upon Starr Piano's incorporation in 1. Lumsden's third son- in- law, Henry Gennett. Henry married Lumsden's daughter. Alice and moved with his father- in- law to Richmond, Indiana. When the Starr and. French companies merged, Benjamin Starr became president with Gennett and Lumsden as secretary. By 1. 90. 0, the factory was turning out 6,0. After the death of Lumsden in 1. Starr in 1. 90. 3, Gennett took over as president of. Starr Piano Company with his three sons acting as officers. They. manufactured pianos in 5. In. 1. 90. 2, Field and Gennett bought out their. Jesse French Piano and Organ Company, including. Starr Piano Company. Starr remained in business until 1. It can be fairly said that the French evolution succeeded. As noted at the outset, Jesse French knew that sheet. Ragtime was truly the rock. Through the French connection, Starr and Gennett were strongly linked to one of the most defining. American popular music styles of all time. That Gennett. Records would also play to emerging markets may have been the result of a Starr. Jesse French. 5th Avenue between Church Street and Union Avenue in. Nashville, TN, shows the Jesse French Piano Company and the Camp Sewing Machine. Company. 1. 90. 0. Union Street from 5th Avenue in Nashville, TN, view to. D. Loveman Co., Jesse French. Piano and Organ Store, and Clifton Coal. The Cole Building is located on the. Avenue. Hunter of Nashville, Tennessee, is a white. Charles Johnson. and his worldly and successful . The short span of his years in some ways parallels the brief story of. Louis Chauvin. One cannot say that in 1. Columbia Tennessee, Charles H. Hunter was a. red- haired, freckled youth, muscular, and of medium height when he left the. School for the Blind and went to work for the Jesse French Piano Company in. Nashville at the piano tuner's trade which he had. Amoung the pianos he was free to. There was no classical. Nashville and the small hill farms that surrounded. Another good book about the piano and family connections. French, Starr, Lumsden, and Gennett is “A Music Dynasty in Victorian Indiana - - Jelly. Roll, Box, and Hoagy” by Rick Kennedy. Google books in its entirety. It tells a lot about. Part of it follows: Jesse French Piano Company Affiliations. Jesse French & Sons Piano Company was established in. Rochester, NY. The company was once a division of the P. A. Starck. Piano Company, 2. N. Ashland, Chicago, IL and. Dorman French & Smith Pianos. It was also affiliated with. Krell- French (1. H. Selmer (1. 94. Ackerman & Lowe Continental. Frenchetts. Jefferson Lagonda. Browning. James M. Neal Irwin, in Rochester, NYIn 1. H. The division was closed in 1. Jesse French and Sons were amongst the better makers of domestic. Much later the piano company was owned by J. Neal Irwin, 6 Greenvale. Dr., Rochester, N. Y. First pianos were made in Nashville, TN, under the name of. Dorman French & Smith, later New Castle Indiana, formerly a division of. H. A. Selmer, also affiliated with Krell French. Since. 1. 87. 5 the name Jesse French have stood for everything high grade in the music. Many thousands of pianos' bearing the name Jesse French have been. Jesse French. & Sons. They are manufactured by the Jesse French &. Sons Piano Co., New Castle. The Thiebes- Stierlin Music Company. Building where Jesse French had his piano company at 1. Olive St., St. Louis. MO, is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by Theodore. Link and built in 1. Albert Krell, Jr. In 1. 89. 6 Albert Krell Jr. In 1. 90. 5 Albert Krell Jr. Its pages are devoted to a treatise on the construction of the Jesse. French piano, of which illustrations of style B, style T and style Y in. The keynote of this little book is . With. nearly a half century of successful business to their credit, the Jesse French. Co. This book should do much. Jesse French & Sons. This artistic piano is the finest product of the great. Jesse French & Sons Piano Co. It is a. strictly high- grade artistic instrument, notable not only for its fine musical. These instruments. Many great pianists and teachers having expressed for them their. A number of leading music schools also have signified their. Jesse French & Sons' pianos by having them installed in. The Jesse French & Sons' grand pianos appeal equally to. One of the recent. This grand is also supplied. The uprights may be had with electric. The name of French is one. Within the last year much skill and expense have been invested in new. There has also been introduced a novel feature, known as the. Dulcet Tone, which opens a wide field of possibilities in tone coloring and. The Dulcet Tone brings into operation an especially arranged set of. Jesse French, the president of the company, started in. French was. the founder of one and intimately associated with others of the best, known and. United States. It. Jesse French & Sons. The Jesse French & Sons' piano is an artistic production. They are made in grands, uprights, foot- power and electric players and. Every part of the instrument, with the exception of the hardware. New Castle. Ind., erected especially for. Jesse French &. Sons pianos. For in them the question of quality is paramount and the desire to. Starck. In January 1. P. In. the modern Starck factory, master craftsmen utilize. Jesse French pianos of beauty and lasting musical. American home; the. The Jesse French. Many satisfied. purchasers recommend Jesse French pianos to their friends. It is not unusual. Jesse French piano. This scale has been acclaimed by experts as one of the. Ragtime, 1. 89. 7- 1. The Jesse French Piano and Organ Company was headquartered. St. Louis and Nashville with stores throughout the South and Midwest, making. New York and the Northeast. To. further his own business, French involved himself indirectly with the. Mississippi Valley ragtime composers. Ragtime historians. As noted at the outset, Jesse French knew that sheet. Ragtime was truly the rock. Houston Symphony - Composer Biographies. Al- Zand. Adams. CPE Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach. Bart. February 1. John Adams grew up in the New England area and played the clarinet from a very early age. In 1. 97. 2, he began teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory where he also worked in the electronic music studio. The music of Canadian- American composer Karim Al- Zand (b. Boston Globe). His compositions are wide- ranging in influence and inspiration, and encompass solo, chamber, vocal and orchestral works. From scores for dance, to compositions for young people, to multi- disciplinary and collaborative works, Al- Zand's music is diverse in both its subject matter and its audience. His works explore connections between music and other arts, and draw inspiration from varied sources such as graphic art, myths and fables, folk music of the world, film, spoken word, jazz, and his own Middle Eastern heritage. Al- Zand’s music has enjoyed success in the US, Canada and abroad and he is the recipient of several national awards, including the Sackler Composition Prize, the Art. Song Prize, the Louisville Orchestra Competition Prize and the “Arts and Letters Award in Music” from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He holds degrees from Harvard and Mc. Gill Universities and is currently on the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music (Rice University) in Houston. Al- Zand is also a founding member of Musiqa, Houston’s premier contemporary music group, which presents concerts featuring new and classic repertoire of the twentieth and twenty- first centuries. Performers of Al- Zand’s music include groups such as the American Modern Ensemble, the Flux Quartet, the Enso Quartet, North/South Consonance, Brave New Works, Pinotage, Ensemble Pi, the Beausejour Trio the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, the Louisville Orchestra and Orchestra. X. He has been awarded three times in the Canadian SOCAN Competition, (for Fantasy and Fanfare,Sonata and String Quartet). His two string quartets have received awards and recognition from the 1. Blodgett Composition Competition, the Salvatore Martirano Award, Harvard’s Bohemians Prize and the Tampa Bay Composers’ Forum Prize for Excellence in Chamber Music. While a fellow at the 2. Oregon Bach Festival Composers’ Symposium, Al- Zand’s work Parizade and the Singing Tree was performed to critical acclaim. Other awards include those from the American Modern Ensemble, Composer’s Guild, ASCAP, the Society of Composers, and the National Association of Composers. He has received fellowships from the June in Buffalo Festival Wellesley Composers Conference, the Music. Ninety. Seven Festival, and the Mac. Dowell Colony. He has been commissioned through the Canada Council (Beausejour Trio), Houston Arts Alliance (River Oaks Chamber Orchestra), the Fromm Foundation, and ASCAP/SCI, and by ALEA III, Orchestra. X and Ensemble Pi. While at Mc. Gill University, Al- Zand he studied composition with Donald Steven, John Rea and the late Bengt Hambraeus and worked in the Mc. Gill’s Group of the Electronic Music Studio with alcides lanza. As a pianist he has studied under Eugene Plawutsky and Louis- Philippe Pelletier. At Harvard University he studied composition with Mario Davidovsky and Bernard Rands, and music theory with David Lewin. In his scholarly work, Al- Zand has pursued several diverse areas of music theory, including topics in jazz, counterpoint, and improvisation (both jazz and 1. His Ph. D. CPE Bach (March 8, 1. December 1. 4, 1. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was the son of JS Bach, the notable Baroque composer. Michael) and other churches in Hamburg. Sonata for Solo Violin, and Piano Concerto No. By 1. 91. 6, the threat of war forced Bax and his family to relocate to London. Despite his emotional and personal ties with Ireland, he accepted a knighthood in 1. In 1. 92. 9, he began adjudicating the Feis Maiti. Bax was not convinced by either of these phenomena and turned his attention to the world of academia as he focused less on composing. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Florian where he continued his musical education and fell in love with the organ. Florian where he remained for ten years as an organist and teacher. Artur Rubinstein) is often used in movies and commercials. January 2. 2, 1. 91. Henri Dutilleux’s style as a composer is similar to that of his French predecessors Debussy, Ravel, and Roussell, though there are some notable differences. It was choreographed by Massine with set designs by Picasso. He moved to Argentina in 1. During his career he has collaborated with artists such as Nobuko Imai, Christian Poltera, Antje Withaas and Maxim Rysanov. As a member of Kammarensemblen – Sweden’s leading ensemble for contemporary music – he is a keen interpreter of the modern repertoire and has had many pieces written for him. As an orchestra musician G. He currently holds the position as principal violist in BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Orchestras such as Australian Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie have played his works. The collaboration with his brother Martin Fr. Together with Martin he has developed the concept of conducting choreography, a completely new form of stage performance. He premiered in the two pieces DClipse April 2. DTangled August 2. In spite of his fame, Gershwin had an itch to write “serious” music that wasn’t just for stage productions. In 1. 90. 6, he met Percy Grainger, who was in Grieg’s opinion the first and only person to do justice to performing his Norwegian folk songs. How you know him: The opening melody from Peer Gynt has been used in many Looney Tunes cartoons to signify morning. Sofia Gubaidulina . She used composition as a personal escape from the oppressive Soviet Russian society and political atmosphere of the time. Since the 1. 98. 0s, her contemporary music has taken flight, and she has received much acclaim. Haydn’s distinct style. Jennifer Higdon (b. December 3. 1, 1. Jennifer Higdon began her musical studies as a flutist at the age of 1. Her formal music studies did not begin until she was 1. These are considered late starts for a musician, but she has overcome them and is today one of the leading figures in contemporary classical music. In fact, the League of American Orchestras estimates that she is one of America’s most frequently performed composers. She has been commissioned by no fewer than 1. Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony, and the President’s Own Marine Band, among many others. In 2. 01. 0 she received the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto. She is also the recipient of awards from the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and ASCAP. Between 2. 01. 0 and 2. Eminent Artist- in- Residence at the University of Wyoming and has been a Featured Composer at festivals such as Tanglewood, Vail, and Grand Teton. Higdon has served the Pittsburgh Symphony, Green Bay Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra as Composer- in Residence. Each year she is commissioned for 5- 1. CDs feature her compositions. Currently, she is writing an opera based on Cold Mountain, the 1. Charles Frazier, and serves as the Milton L. Rock Chair in Composition Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paul Hindemith . In 1. Wick Rissington, a small village in Cotswold. He became closely acquainted with Fritz Hart, and the two went to a performance of Wagner’s G. After accepting a full- time position as first trombone for the Carl Rosa Opera Company, he left the Royal College of Music in 1. In the early 2. 0th- century, Holst accepted a position as a singing teacher at the James Allen School in Dulwich, and by 1. Director of Music at St. Paul’s Girls School in Hammersmith. A fall off the back of a podium in 1. When he returned to composing and teaching, his first two works were flops, but his lectures were well- attended. In 1. 83. 9, he moved to Paris to study with Fran. He was also a very accomplished violist and violinist and played in the Armingaud Quartet, a group he helped form. In 1. 86. 5, he married Julie Besnier de Maligny, a contralto from Brittany. Her talents as a vocalist helped arouse Lalo’s interests in opera. Unfortunately, these works were not well- received because they resembled too closely the works of Richard Wagner, so instead he turned his attention to chamber music. He had a very distinctive composition style, despite not being one of the most well- known French composers. His music is filled with strong melodies, intricate orchestrations, and a strong Germanic flavor. Lalo did not gain fame for his compositions until his late 4. Le Roi d’Ys, based on the French legend of Ys. This is the same legend that inspired Debussy’s piano piece La cath. It was not performed until Lalo was 6. He received the Legion of Honor in 1. Paris 1. 2 years later. He is well- remembered for his piece Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra. Magnus Lindberg (b. June 2. 7, 1. 95. Magnus Lindberg’s career recently took off when he was hired as the composer- in- residence for the New York Philharmonic from 2. Bach’s works, which were looked down upon at the time, and today without his insistence of their performance, they may never have resurfaced and become the baroque musical pillars that they are today. In 1. 83. 5 he became the conductor of an orchestra in Leipzig, and two years later he married Cecile Jeanrenaud. Moncayo and his colleagues were labeled as Chavistas and consequently blacklisted from the conservatory from its new administration for their prior support of their professor. In the late 1. 93. Moncayo began a relationship with the National Symphony Orchestra in Mexico City.
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