Henry Creamer News
American popular song lyricist
- United States of America
- songwriter, singer
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2021-02-27 20:53:00
WaynesboroSymphonyOrchestra.org: Livestream Sunday, Feb. 28, 3 PM ET: Florence Price, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, George Walker & William Grant Still
[…] Singers: With Their Songs, by J. B. T. Marsh. By 1917, when Burleigh completed the last of his several influential arrangements, the song had become very popular in recitals. It has been called “perhaps the best known and best-loved spiritual.” The melody was adopted in 1921 for the song Dear Old Southland by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton, which enjoyed popular success the next year in versions by Paul Whiteman and by Vernon Dalhart. Deep River has been sung in several films. The 1929 Show Boat featured it mouthed by Laura La Plante to the singing of Eva Olivetti. Paul Robeson famously sang it accompanied by male […]
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2016-08-16 11:03:00
Gidon Kremer: Competitions have become a joke
[…] “too fast”. In the future, works for which there are no appropriately marked scores will automatically be excluded from the competition repertoire. As for the commissioned work, composers had to agree to include a certain number of notes and rhythmic challenges. The work performed last week also complied fully with the parameters previously known as “technical difficulties for orchestral musicians”, a further prerequisite for selection. World-class jury The star-studded jury included the famous violinist Sour Creamer, cellist Ninja Naisky and pianist Shorty Short. Their selection procedure broke new ground. Apart from submitting to a compulsory hearing test, they were required to provide home-made video or audio tapes of their own performances. They had also all attended preparatory courses on new technology, ratings and value assessment as well as on bias enhancement and self-profiling. All participants in the last three rounds of the competition had to vote for the jury member […]
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