Showing posts with label Western Musicians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Western Musicians. Show all posts

Who is Royal Wedding Cellist, Sheku Kanneh-Mason ?

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, 19 years of age, is a British cellist. He grew up in Nottingham, England and he is the third of the seven children of Stuart Mason, a business manager, and Dr. Kadiatu Kanneh, a former university lecturer, and began playing the cello at the age of six, having briefly played the …

Rejoice In the Lord Alway by Henry Purcell (1669-1695)

Rejoice in the Lord alway ‘The bell anthem’ is one of the most popular of his anthems of an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music, Henry Purcell. The composer set Philippians 4:4-7 into music by taken the French-influenced symphony anthem of Pelham Humfrey and added the …

Glenn Herbert Gould, Canadian pianist

Glenn Herbert Gould was born in Toronto in 1932, and enjoyed a privileged, sheltered upbringing in the quiet Beach neighborhood. His musical gifts became apparent in infancy, and though his parents never pushed him to become a star prodigy, he became a professional concert pianist at age fifteen, a…

Leontyne Price, a "lirico-spinto" soprano

February 10, 1927 African-American soprano Leontyne Price rose to stardom and gained worldwide acclaim as a professional opera singer. Synopsis Leontyne Price was born on February 10, 1927, in Laurel, Mississippi. Renowned for her early stage and television work, Price made her opera stage debut at th…

Magda Olivero, the last great verismo soprano