Frank Martin's long, quietly productive career reflected a quest to reconcile creative imperatives with stylistic integrity in an era of unprecedented technical challenges, experiments, and fragmentation. A conventionally trained musician would have been less liable to brook such challenges as an ethical dilemma or to see in them an almost paralyzing array of possibilities, while Martin, the tenth child of a Calvinist pastor, felt both keenly. Martin began composing at 8, was overwhelmed by a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion at 10, and by his 16th year knew that music was his destiny. While formally studying mathematics and physics at his parents' behest, he pursued music privately with ………

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The Russian composer, pianist, and conductor Sergey Lyapunov was the son of a celebrated mathematician and astronomer. His father died when Sergey was eight, and in 1870, he and his mother settled in Nizhniy Novgorod, home of Balakirev, the founder of the Russian national school of composition and who was known as one of the "Mighty Handful." Lyapunov studied piano and violin as a child, but was badly taught, resulting in poor technique that had to be corrected when he enrolled at the Moscow Conservatory in 1878. His main piano teacher there was Karl Klindworth, a disciple of Liszt. Lyapunov was also one of Tchaikovsky's last composition students before his resignation from the conservatory, after which ……….

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This limited double album of Moonspell's epic 2012 opus adds to main album 'Alpha Noir' with counterpart recording 'Omega White,' which explores the band's more atmospheric gothic rock personality, revealing the band's Sisters of Mercy and Type O Negative influences. All avid moon gazers will find much to love within both of these discs

Арсенал — созданный в 1973 году первый советский джаз-роковый коллектив, основатель — саксофонист Алексей Козлов.
За время своего существования Арсенал приобрел широчайшую известность в СССР, неоднократно выезжал за границу, участвовал в теле— и радио программах, был участником и лауреатом многих, в том числе и зарубежных, джазовых фестивалей.

Born Villain is the upcoming eighth full-length studio album by American metal band, Marilyn Manson. It is set to be jointly released on May 1, 2012 by Cooking Vinyl Records and Manson's own vanity label Hell, etc. Interviews with the band's frontman described that the record would be in a heavier tone than that of previous works, describing the sound as a "suicide death metal" style.

Pittsburgh native Barry Levenson's lifelong love affair with the blues began at an early age. At fourteen, an older friend played him some of Buddy Guy's Vanguard records and Levenson immediately fell hopelessly and passionately in love with this great American art form. After playing in numerous blues bands in his home town, Levenson landed a job doing studio work, which he still does to this day. He then moved to Boston to study arranging at the Berklee School of Music. While in Boston, he became the house guitarist at Boston's premier rhythm and blues hot spot, the Sugar Shack, backing up numerous R&B and soul greats…