James director de orquesta yankee
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Remembering Disney Composer and All-American College Orchestra Director Jim Christensen (1935-2020)
Peter Wilson
April 7, 2020, 4:43 PM · When I met Jim Christensen in 1990, he was traveling the country, visiting various university music schools and conservatories, auditioning new prospects for a work-experience program for college musicians he helped develop — the Walt Disney World All American College Orchestra. Jim served as music director and conductor of the orchestra for nine seasons (1984-1992) at the American Adventure in World Showcase at EPCOT Center, where he and his hand-picked young musicians collaborated with world-renowned artists and celebrities each summer.
Jim created the Orchestra program with the late Bob Raddock (who started the Disney College Band programs) as a new initiative in the Disney parks that would not only showcase and cultivate great young American talent but perhaps serve as a means to recruit musicians for future Disney projects.
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34 actores que fueron nominados al Oscar por interpretar a músicos de la vida real
Con su nominación al Oscar, anunciada el martes (23 de enero), por interpretar al compositor y director Leonard Bernstein en Maestro, Bradley Cooper se une a una impresionante lista de actores que han sido nominados por interpretar a personalidades de la música de la vida real.
Cooper es el primero de estos actores nominado por una película que él mismo dirigió. Y no solo protagonizó y dirigió Maestro; también coprodujo y coescribió el guion (con Josh Singer).
Una docena de actores han ganado Oscars por interpretar a figuras de la música de la vida real. El primero en hacerlo fue James Cagney por su papel de George M. Cohan en Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). La más reciente fue Jessica Chastain por su versión de la televangelista Tammy Faye Bakker (quien cantaba frecuentemente en sus programas de televisión y lanzó al menos 15 álbumes de estudio) en The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
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Fania All-Stars
Musical group formed in 1968 as a showcase for the musicians on Fania Records
The Fania All-Stars is a musical group formed in 1968 as a showcase for the musicians on Fania Records, the leading salsa music record label of the time.[1]
History
[edit]Beginnings
[edit]In 1964, Fania Records was founded in New York City by Jerry Masucci, an Italian-American lawyer with a love for Cuban music, and Johnny Pacheco, a flutist, percussionist and bandleader born in the Dominican Republic but raised in the South Bronx who had like minded musical tastes.[2] Masucci later bought out his partner Pacheco from Fania Entertainment Group, Ltd. and was the sole owner until his death in December 1997.[3]
Throughout the early years, Fania used to distribute its records around New York. Eventually success from Pacheco's Cañonazo recording would lead the label to develop its roster. Masucci and Pacheco, now executive negotiator and musical dire