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by Robert Shapiro

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by Burgess Speed, Eleanor Anderson

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NEW WORLD MUSIC: NEW STAR

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by David Harold Cox

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Alan Rawsthorne died in 1971 at the age of sixty six; in the following year, whilst memories of him and his work were st...

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George Gershwin

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More than seventy biographies and thousands of words have been written about George Gershwin Jablonski, Schwartz, Ewen, ...

Carole King

by James E. Perone

Paul Simon

by James E. Perone

Phil Ochs

by David Cohen

Manuel Maria Ponce

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Composer and pianist Manuel Maria Ponce Cuellar was born in the small mining town of Fresnillo on 8 December 1882, durin...

George Crumb

by David Cohen

Gian Carlo Menotti

by Donald L. Hixon

Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Cadegliano, a small town on Lake Lugano in Lombardy, Northern Italy, on July 7, 1911.

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by Donald L. Patterson

Ginger Rogers

by Jocelyn Faris