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Composer, Conductor And Bandleader Maria Schneider Earns 2026 Rolf Schock Prize In Musical Arts
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Trailblazing composer and orchestra leader Maria Schneider has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Musical Arts. Other 2026 Rolf Schock Prize winners include mathematician Tobias Colding, philosopher Bastiaan van Fraassen, architect Arno Brandlhuber. The Rolf Schock Prize Laureates will each receive 600,000 Swedish kronor, and are selected in collaboration between three Swedish academies: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The prize brings scientists together with ...
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Rolf Ericson & American Stars
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If you check the personnel of Charlie Barnet's band in 1949—the killer one with arrangements by Bobby Sherwood, Manny Albam, Pete Rugolo, Gil Fuller, Dave Matthews and Johnny Richards—you'll find a guy named Rolf Ericson in the trumpet section. Ericson sat next to horn players such as Maynard Ferguson, Lammar Wright, Doc Severinsen, Ray Wetzel and Shorty Rogers, as the personnel shifted on the road and in the recording studio. Ericson had come over to the States in 1947 from ...
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New ECM Release from Rolf Lislevand
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ECM Records
Diminuito - a new recording by Norwegian master lutenist Rolf Lislevand will be released on October 27th.'The expansion and contraction of arranged and improvised elements allows the original Baroque material to breathe authentically in our own time, resulting in a phantasmagoria whose haunting effects are only accentuated by ECM's beautifully spacious recording. ... This disc rocks, albeit urbanely.' William Yeoman, writing on 'Nuove Musiche' in The GramophoneOn Nuove Musiche, his highly successful ECM debut released in ...
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