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# Wesley LaViolette

Wallace Wesley LaViolette (4 Jan 1894 Saint James, Minnesota - 29 Jul 1978 Escondido, California) was an American musician who composed, conducted, lectured, and wrote about music. He was also a poet and music theorist. As an educator, he mentored Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Giuffre, John Graas, George Perle, Florence Price, Bob Carter, Bob Florence and Robert Erickson and writer William Irwin Thompson. Laviolette was an important figure on the West coast jazz scene of the 1950s.

## Career

LaViolette received his undergraduate degree in music from Northwestern University in 1917. He earned three graduate degrees. From 1923 to 1933, LaViolette was dean of the Chicago Musical College. He served as director for DePaul University School of Music from 1933 until 1938. In 1930 he received the David Bispham Medal Award for his opera Falstaff (or possibly Shylock.)
In the 1950s LaViolette was the teacher for many writers and players associated with the West Coast jazz scene. LaViolette supported their work, calling them "America's musical contribution to tomorrow ... I don't always LIKE what they do - but I respect it."

## Selected compositions

* Largo Lyrico, string quartet (1941)
* Prelude and Aria, symphonic work (1941); premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra November 14 and 15, 1941
* Autumn, from Songs of love, a song cycle based on Chopin compositions, for high voice, piano, and orchestra; music: Alexander Laszlo, words: Wesley LaViolette (1954)
* Irridescence, from Songs of love, a song cycle based on Chopin compositions, for high voice, piano, and orchestra; music: Alexander Laszlo, words: Wesley LaViolette (1954)
* Lilac time, from Songs of love, a song cycle based on Chopin compositions, for high voice, piano, and orchestra; music: Alexander Laszlo, words: Wesley LaViolette (1954)
* Love laughed, from Songs of love, a song cycle based on Chopin compositions, for high voice, piano, and orchestra; music: Alexander Laszlo, words: Wesley LaViolette (1954)
* The Wayfarer: An Interpretation of the Dhammapada, published by DeVores & Co. (1956)
* Charade, for four flutes (1946)
* Sonata, for flute and piano (1946)

## Collections

* The LaViolette Collection — which included his own recordings, books, scores, photographs and personal papers — is archived at The Los Angeles Jazz Institute, California State University, Long Beach.
* The original manuscript of LaViolette's First Symphony (1935) is housed at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

## Career positions

* Professor of Music Composition, DePaul University, Chicago
* Professor of Music Composition, American Conservatory of Music, Chicago
* Professor of Music Composition, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
# Al Nakheel

Al Nakheel is a suburb of the city of Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. The community predominantly comprises low-rise residential structures providing compact apartments. Its residential sector is conveniently linked to major thoroughfares and is host to Lulu Centre and Safeer Market. Al Nakheel additionally accommodates Naeem Mall.
The Indian Public High School is located in Al Nakheel.
# Joelle Wallach

Joelle Wallach (born June 29, 1946, in New York) is an American composer. As a girl she lived for five years in Morocco before returning to the United States to attend the Juilliard School's pre-college program, where she studied the violin, piano, singing, theory, and composition. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in music composition in 1967. She continued with graduate studies at Columbia University (MA 1969), and, as a pupil of John Corigliano, at the Manhattan School of Music (DMA 1984).
As a composer, Wallach is particularly known for her string and vocal works which use a post-Wagnerian tonal idiom and for her orchestral works, which exhibit a wide range of influences such as Hebrew chant and North African dance traditions. Wallach is also known for her symphonic work The Tiger's Tail which won the National Orchestral Association composition contest in 1991 and for her chamber opera The King's Twelve Moons. Her secular oratorio, Toward a Time of Renewal for 200 voices and orchestra was commissioned by the New York Choral Society for their 35th Anniversary Season at Carnegie Hall. The New York Philharmonic's Chamber Ensemble premiered her octet, From the Forest Chimneys, written to celebrate their 10th anniversary, and her ballet, Glancing Below, commissioned by the Carlisle Project, was premiered in Philadelphia during the summer of 1994.

## Sources

* Lisa B. Robinson. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (1992), ISBN 0-333-73432-7 and ISBN 1-56159-228-5
# Sandwick, Orkney

Sandwick (Old Norse: Sandvík; Norn: Sandvik) is a parish on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Stromness.
The parish's name derives from the Old Norse Sandvík meaning "Sand Bay".
The coast, except at the small sandy bay (whence the parish's name) consists of cavernous cliffs, from 100 to 200 ft, and includes a lofty natural arch called the hole of Rowe, and is much flanked by insulated pillar-rocks.
The interior is much diversified, and comprises both a large aggregate of flat arable land, and a considerable extent of hilly ground, partly more than 300 ft high.
The chief residence is Skaill House, and chief antiquities include numerous tumuli, a vitrified cairn, a remarkable cromlech, a remnant of a very large stone circle, five Norse forts, and the ruins of Sunsgar castle. Notably, Skara Brae and Yesnaby are in this parish. Sandwick is the biggest parish in Orkney.
Farming plays a large role in the parish. Many of Orkney's biggest and most successful farms are in the parish of Sandwick, where the land is very green and fertile. Sandwick only has two dairy farms left; in the 1970s there were over 25 in the parish. All other farms are mixed beef arable.
The small township of Quoyloo is in Sandwick and has a shop, general store, post office, and a garage run by Isbister Brothers Ltd, founded in the parish in 1929.
The Sandwick Community Association run the Sandwick hall on behalf of the parish.

## St Peter's Kirk

St Peter's Kirk (also known as Skaill Kirk) is a rare surviving example of an unaltered Church of Scotland Parish Kirk of 1836. Designated a Category A listed building by Historic Environment Scotland, the current kirk is built partly on the foundations of its predecessor built in 1670. The dedication to St Peter has probably been given to all previous chapels on the site.
Situated on an exposed site near the Bay of Skaill, it is a large harled church, with two tall windows in the centre, a bellcote and a slate roof; the interior evokes the experience of Presbyterian worship in the 19th century when over 500 people attended the church. It was acquired by the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust in 1998 and restored between 2002 and 2003. It is widely used for funerals and weddings by the people of the parish, although it has no electricity or heating installed.
# Gundaris Pone

Gundaris Pone (October 17, 1932 – March 15, 1994) was a Latvian-American composer of contemporary classical music, conductor, and professor.
Born in Riga, Latvia, he emigrated to the United States in 1950 after his fleeing the advancing Soviet troops, where he earned a doctorate in music from the University of Minnesota in 1962.
In 1963 he moved to New Paltz, New York, where he served as a professor at the State University College at New Paltz, New York. He was a winner of a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award (first place, 1982).
He died of cancer at the Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, New York on March 15, 1994, at the age of 61. His wife was a concert pianist. Pone and his wife had two children. Adrian Pone, Born December 20, 1964, was a colonel and fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. Adrian died in an auto accident on January 20, 2010. His younger brother Daniel T. Pone resides in New York.
His notable students include Craig Fryer and David J. Sosnowski. However, it is his former Theory and Composition student, Roberto Bolero Noriega, who would work with notable figures in popular music, including Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Madonna, and Julio Iglesias.
# Thomas Wells (composer)

Thomas H. Wells (born January 8, 1945, in Austin, Texas) is an American composer, pianist, organist, and arts-organization administrator.

## Biography

Thomas Wells began his formal composition studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 1960 with Kent Kennan and Clifton Williams. He received his Bachelor of Music (1966) and D.M.A. (1969) degrees from that institution, studying with Hunter Johnson. Wells founded the University of Texas Electronic Music Studio in 1967 and served as its director until 1975. He was accepted in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Composition Studio in Darmstadt in 1968, and participated in the project Musik für ein Haus. Wells joined the faculty of the Ohio State University School of Music in 1976, and continues to teach there as Professor of Composition and Director of the Sound Synthesis Studios. In addition, he has served as guest professor and artist in residence at the University of Novi Sad (Serbia), Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz), and Ball State University. His works have been performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Korea, and by orchestras and ensembles such as the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Spokane Symphony, Columbus Symphony, and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
He has received grants and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Ohio Humanities Council, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Wells received the Governor's Award in the State of Ohio for Outstanding Individual Artist in 1990. He hosted the 1984 Society of Composers National Conference (Frank Zappa, keynote speaker), and the 1989 International Computer Music Conference, both at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He is active in the 1500-member Society of Composers, serving as its president from 2002 to the present.

## Musical style and influences

Wells' instrumental music is strongly influenced by Varèse, Stockhausen, electroacoustic music, and spectral music.

## Selected compositions

* Tango Orillero for piano (2011) 4'
* Souvenirs/Resolutions for trumpet ensemble (2011) 10'
* Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Saxophone Octet (2010) 14'
* Premonitions for alto saxophone, computer-generated sounds (2010) 13'
* Mersenne's Dream for alto saxophone, computer-generated sounds (2009) 11'
* Sechs Trakl Gesänge for tenor, chorus, orchestra (2008) 45'
* Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra (2005) 30'
* Ehlecatl for flute solo (2003) 7'
* Riflessioni for Chamber Orchestra (2003) 12'
* Voces Intimae, electroacoustic music (2003)
* Kisa, electroacoustic music (2002) 8'
* Aus tiefer Not for clarinet solo (2001) 7'
* Adieu for wind ensemble (1999) 14'
* Into Darkness, electroacoustic music (1997) 7'
* Threnos for saxophone quartet, percussion (1997) 12'
* Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1992) 28'

## Discography

* Thomas Wells. 1987. 11.2.72, Electronic Music. CRI (LP), SD443
* Thomas Wells. 2002. Echoes from the Southern: A Ragtime Overture. ProMusica: Live at the Southern; ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus (CD 2001).
# Andreas Kunstein

Andreas Kunstein (born 25 June 1967) is a German composer who was born in Brühl (North Rhine-Westphalia). In his youth, he received piano lessons and wrote his first compositions. After finishing high school, he studied history and philosophy in Düsseldorf.
He also had private composition lessons with David Graham and Ratko Delorko. During 1992–1998 he studied composition at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, with Wolfgang Hufschmidt [de]. At the Rotterdam Hogeschool voor Muziek en Dans, he completed his studies in composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans and Klaas de Vries in April 2002. He participated in masterclasses of Manfred Trojahn, Edison Denisov and George Crumb, amongst others.
His 13 Epigrams for Orchestra were nominated for the Dutch Young Composers Prize in 2000. In 1998, Andreas Kunstein received the scholarship of the Otmar Alt Foundation and in 2003 he received a scholarship of the Kulturfonds Foundation for the "Künstlerhaus Lukas".
Andreas Kunstein is counted as one of the Rotterdam School composers.

## Works

Works by Kunstein have been published by Donemus, including:
* Toccata for piano (1980/1991)
* Fantasy in G-minor for piano (1991)
* String quartet No. 1 (1992)
* 10 Epigrams for toy piano (1992) (Version for piano: 1996)
* Woodwinds Quintet (1993)
* String quartet No. 2 (1994)
* Mutter denkt nach for mezzo-soprano and piano (text: Hedda Zinner, 1929) (1995)
* 2 Portraits for piano (1995–1997)
* 13 Epigrams for orchestra (1998) (New version: 2000)
* String Trio (1992/1999)
* Szenen aus einem Studentenleben for orchestra (2001–2002) (Version for piano: 2001)
* String quintet (2002)
* Suite for orchestra (2002) (Version for 2 pianos: Suite for 2 pianos)
* Music for 2 Pianos and Percussion (2003)
* Turbulences for big band (2003)
His 10 Epigrams for toy piano appeared in 1994 on CD SST 31112 played by Bernd Wiesemann and his 10 Epigrams for piano appeared on NCC 8007 played by Ratko Delorko.
# Renault Frendzy

The Renault Frendzy was a concept leisure activity vehicle (M-segment) designed by Renault for the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show at a similar size to the production Renault Kangoo. Its concept was designed by Renault's design chief Laurens Van den Acker with the exterior design accredited to Deyan Denkov.

## Technical details

The Frendzy is based on the Renault Kangoo Z.E. and is powered by an electric motor developing 59 bhp (44 kW; 60 PS) and is equipped with a lithium-ion battery pack.
# Jeanne Behrend

Jeanne Behrend (11 May 1911 – 20 March 1988) was an American pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer.

## Life

Jeanne Behrend was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Curtis Institute in 1934, where she studied piano with Josef Hofmann and composition with Rosario Scalero. She made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1922 and at Carnegie Hall in 1937, playing one of her own compositions.
After completing her education, Behrend worked as a pianist and composer and taught music at Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard, the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, and Temple University. Becoming aware of the lack of opportunity for American composers, she became a champion of American music and concentrated on her career as a performer.
Behrend edited a selection of Louis Moreau Gottschalk piano scores and his autobiography, Notes of a Pianist. She also edited a collection of Stephen Foster songs and one of American fuguing tunes. She married twice. Her first husband, pianist Alexander Kelberine died in 1940, and her second husband, Americana book dealer George S. McManus died in 1967.
Behrend received the Joseph Bearns prize from Columbia University in 1936 for composition. She was recommended for sponsorship by Heitor Villa-Lobos and toured in South America from 1945-46. She founded and directed the Philadelphia Festival of Western Hemisphere Music in 1959 and 1960 and was awarded the Order of the Southern Cross from Brazil. Behrend died in Philadelphia and her papers are housed in the Free Library in the city.

## Works

Selected works include:
* A Child's Day, piano suite
* From Dawn to Dusk for orchestra, 1939
* Lamentation for viola and pianoforte, 1944
* Quiet Piece for piano, 1932
* Festival Fanfare: Prelude to the National Anthem, 1959
Behrend edited Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Notes of a Pianist (New York, 1964) and also selections of his music.
# Borsele

Borsele (Dutch: ; Zeeuws: Bossele) is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland.
The name of the municipality is spelled with a single s; the name of the eponymous village is Borssele, spelled with double s.
The municipality is mainly known for the Borssele Nuclear Power Station and the Central Storage for Radioactive Waste.

## Population centres

* Baarland
* Borssele
* Driewegen
* Ellewoutsdijk
* 's-Gravenpolder
* 's-Heer Abtskerke
* 's-Heerenhoek
* Heinkenszand
* Hoedekenskerke
* Kwadendamme
* Lewedorp
* Nieuwdorp
* Nisse
* Oudelande
* Ovezande.

### Topography
## Transport

The Western Scheldt Tunnel is from Ellewoutsdijk to Terneuzen in Zeelandic Flanders.

## Notable people

* Adrianus Barlandus [1486 in Baarland – 1538) a Dutch historian of merit
* Hans Warren (1921 in Borssele – 2001) a Dutch writer

### Sport

* Dingenis de Wilde (1885 in Heinkenszand – 1947) a Dutch sports shooter, competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics
* Cees Priem (born 1950 in Ovezande) a retired professional road bicycle racer, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics
* Jan Raas (born 1952 in Heinkenszand, near Goes) a Dutch former professional cyclist
* Angelique van der Meet (born 1991 in 's-Heer Abtskerke) a Dutch tennis player

## Gallery

* Borssele Nuclear Power Plant
* Borssele - De Hoop en Verwachting
* 't Hof te Baarland te Baarland
* Wiel, showing a pool resulting from a dike breach and subsequent re-empoldering.
# Clifford Taylor (composer)

Clifford O. Taylor (20 October 1923 in Avalon, Pennsylvania – 19 September 1987 in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) was an American composer and music educator. He studied with Walter Piston and Paul Hindemith and served as chairman of the department of music composition at Temple University for 23 years. Among his compositions are three symphonies, The Freak Show (a 1975 one-act opera), several string quartets and numerous piano sonatas. In December 1971 the Philadelphia Orchestra played the world premiere of his Symphony No. 2. He was married for many years to Louise Kemp, living with her in Jenkintown, PA until his death at Abington Memorial Hospital in 1987. They had three sons, Christopher, Andrew and Jonathan Taylor.
His major works seemed to belonged to a school of thought among 20th century American composers, such as Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, that was intent on writing music exhibiting strictly American styles, properties, and innovations.
In fact, the sound of Clifford Taylor's music might indeed be mistaken for some by Copland, and it seems to have used similar compositional processes.
# Joseph Pehrson

Joseph Pehrson (August 14, 1950 – April 4, 2020) was an American composer and pianist.

## Life

Pehrson comes from Detroit, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan and Eastman School of Music. (D.M.A. 1981). His teachers include Leslie Bassett, Joseph Schwantner, Otto Luening and Elie Siegmeister. From 1992 to 1993 he was composer-in-residence at the University of Akron. Since 1983 he served as co-director of the Composers Concordance in New York City. He mostly wrote pieces for orchestral and chamber music. His compositions have been performed at Merkin Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall and Symphony Space. Concerts were held in Eastern Europe and Russia. Recently, he was working with the German Ensemble Sortisatio.
# Sebastian Currier

Sebastian Currier (born March 16, 1959) is an American composer of music for chamber groups and orchestras. He was also a professor of music at Columbia University from 1999 to 2007.

## Life

Currier was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and was raised in Providence, Rhode Island, in a family of talented musicians, including his brother Nathan Currier, also a noted composer. Sebastian Currier received degrees from the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. His compositions include Crossfade, written for two harps, and Microsymph, described as a "30-minute symphony compressed into 10 minutes."
In October 2005, members of the Berlin Philharmonic performed an entire evening of his works, including the premiere of Remix.
Currier completed the orchestration of Stephen Albert's Symphony No. 2, part of which was unfinished at the time of Albert's death. It was subsequently recorded on Naxos Records along with Albert's Symphony No. 1 Riverrun, which won a Pulitzer Prize.
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has recorded Currier's Aftersong, which the composer dedicated to her. On June 2, 2011, she also premiered his Time Machines (composed in 2007 and reworked by the composer in 2011) with the Slovak Roman Patkoló playing the contrabasso and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Alan Gilbert. His Piano Concerto was premiered in April 2007 by Emma Tahmizian.
Currier has received a Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, for Static, and a 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Manhattan School of Music.
On March 12, 2013, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton announced the appointment of Currier as Artist-in-Residence, his term to begin on July 1, 2013.

## Awards

* 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for Static for flute, clarinet, violin, 'cello, and piano. Static is the second Grawemeyer Award-winning piece that does not require a conductor (the other is György Ligeti's Piano Etudes, which won the award in 1986).
* 1992 Guggenheim Fellowship
* 1994 Rome Prize
# Matthew Carrington, Baron Carrington of Fulham

Matthew Hadrian Marshall Carrington, Baron Carrington of Fulham (born 19 October 1947) is a British politician. Formerly the Conservative Member of Parliament for Fulham from 1987 to 1997, in September 2013 Carrington was made a life peer and member of the House of Lords.

## Early life

Carrington was born in London and was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle and Imperial College London, during which time he chaired the Imperial College Conservative Society and graduated with a BSc and ARCS in Physics in 1969. He then attended the London Business School, where he received an MBA. He was a banker with the First National Bank of Chicago (now the First Chicago Bank) between 1974 and 1978, and then the Saudi International Bank between 1978 and 1987. He subsequently became chairman of the Outdoor Advertising Association and chief executive of the Retail Motor Industry Federation.

## Political career

Carrington first stood for Parliament at Tottenham in 1979, coming second to the incumbent Labour MP Norman Atkinson.
He unsuccessfully contested the Fulham seat at a by-election in 1986 but won it at the general election a year later, defeating the Labour by-election victor Nick Raynsford (who returned to Parliament five years later as the Member for Greenwich). Carrington was Parliamentary private secretary to John Patten when he was a Home Office Minister between November 1990 and April 1992, and then when Patten was promoted to Secretary of State for Education. Carrington returned to the backbenches before joining John Major's government against as an Assistant Whip between 1996 and the 1997 general election, simultaneously serving as Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.
The Fulham constituency disappeared in the boundary changes ahead of the 1997 election, and Carrington was selected as the Conservative candidate for the new Hammersmith and Fulham constituency, but was defeated by the Labour candidate Iain Coleman. He failed to regain the seat at the 2001 general election, but Carrington stayed active in local politics, and was elected Chairman of the Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham Conservatives on 28 March 2012. On 11 September 2013 he was created a life peer taking the title Baron Carrington of Fulham, of Fulham in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Carrington is a non-executive director of the Sharia-compliant Gatehouse Bank and the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce, as well as a trustee of St John's, Notting Hill.

## Personal life

Carrington was married to Mary Lou, who died in 2008. Mary Lou held senior positions at the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange between 1985 and 1998, and was an assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago, where Matthew Carrington had also worked. Mary Lou had also been elected a common councilman for the City of London ward of Lime Street. They had one daughter together.
# Simbach (Inn) station

Simbach (Inn) station (German: Bahnhof Simbach (Inn)) is a railway station in the municipality of Simbach am Inn, located in the Rottal-Inn district in Bavaria, Germany.