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Jump City Music Announces the New Album "Toot Suite" from Trumpeter Bob Wagner

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2018

Jump City Music is thrilled to announce the release of the debut solo album from trumpeter Bob Wagner. Toot Suite will be available from bwtpt.com in January as well as on all major musical distribution platforms (iTunes, Amazon, etc) shortly thereafter. Toot Suite, written by composer/pianist Claude Bolling, combines creative improvisations, jazzy syncopations and beautiful melodies into six separate, but musically related movements. Originally recorded in 1980 by Bolling and virtuoso trumpeter Maurice André, Toot Suite's opening lines will be ...
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Underscoring Richard Wagner's Influence on Film Music

Source: Michael Ricci
June 17, 2010

You may not know his 'Ring,' but if you've seen 'Lord of the Rings' or 'Star Wars' you've entered his musical universe.

Max Steiner's application of music at a critical moment in “Gone With the Wind" can be compared to Wagner's use of Siegfried's funeral music late in “Gotterdammerung." Max Steiner, the pioneering film composer who wrote the music for “King Kong" and “Gone With the Wind," was once complimented as the man who invented modern movie music. “Nonsense," he ...
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Wolfgang Wagner, Who Led Bayreuth Festival, Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
March 22, 2010

Wolfgang Wagner, the grandson of composer Richard Wagner and the leader of the Bayreuth opera festival for more than half a century, died Sunday. He was 90.

Wolfgang Wagner dedicated his whole life to the legacy of his grandfather, the festival said, adding that his long service as the events leader means that he goes into history as the longest-serving director in the world. Mr. Wagner stepped down after the 2008 festival following a long power struggle in which he ...
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Mike Antonovich vs. Wagner

Source: Michael Ricci
July 17, 2009

On Tuesday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich called for Los Angeles Opera -- which is scheduled to mount Wagners four-opera Ring cycle next spring as well as coordinate a citywide festival on the Ring -- to delete the focus on Wagner.

He asks this on the grounds that Wagner was a racist and anti-Semite whose music Hitler enjoyed and employed to his own ends. In addition to Wagner, the supervisor suggests we turn to, among others, Mendelssohn, Schubert and ...
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David Halliday Band Featuring Angela Bingham at Jeanne Wagner Theatre in Salt Lake City

Source: All About Jazz
March 30, 2009

David Halliday is known as one of the finest saxophonists in the Mountain West and has performed in virtually every venue the area has to offer.

Halliday makes his long overdue headlining concert debut at the Jeanne Wagner Theatre on May 2 at 7:30pm with a quartet comprised of Utah's finest jazz musicians: Dan Waldis on piano, Evan Coombs on bass, and Steve Lyman on drums.

Joining David's Quartet will be David's longtime friend, Salt Lake City favorite - now ...
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