Musical Instrument New York
Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Repair percussion, stringed, reed, or wind instruments. May specialize in one area, such as piano tuning. Exclude "Electronic Home Entertainment Equipment Installers and Repairers" (49-2097) who repair electrical and electronic musical instruments. ... 49-9063 Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners ... Sporting goods and musical instrument stores ... [Read More]
Musicians, singers, and related workers
Musicians, singers, and related workers play musical instruments, sing, compose or arrange music, or conduct groups in instrumental or vocal performances. They may perform solo or as part of a group. Musicians, singers, and related workers entertain live audiences in nightclubs, concert halls, and theaters featuring opera, musical theater, or dance. Although most of these entertainers play for live audiences, many perform exclusively for recording or production studios. Regardless of the setting, musicians, singers, and related workers spend considerable time practicing, alone and with their band, orchestra, or other musical ensemble. ... [Read More]
Collections of the New York State Historical Survey - Page 4
The bandcollection consists of musical instruments, and memorabilia froma local band prominent in the Albany area from 1895 to 1950. Thisincludes band uniforms, instruments, record books, andphotographs. The Museum also has prints and posters featuringwell known bands and performers. Circus bandmaster Merrel Evansis represented by his band uniform and cornet. ... Anotherpart of the musical instrument collection contains keyboardinstruments. Pianos manufactured in New York State between 1820and 1920, parlor organs and melodeons made in New York Statebetween 1820 and 1910, a Steinway reproducing piano, c. 1925, anda Wurlitzer theatre organ, c. 1925 complete this collection. ... [Read More]
Music - FirstGov for Kids
- DSOKids is the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magicaldoorway to a world of musical fun and learning for students. The site's mission is to provide attractive,accessible and child-friendly resources that introduce symphonic music, the orchestra and its instruments,and to encourage young people to explore the world of the symphony orchestra. ... - The purpose of this site is to allow you to explore the diversity and creativity of musical traditions as youbrowse our gallery or search for a favorite instrument. ... [Read More]
Music Resources
A nonprofit initiative with two primary missions: to restore music education programs that had been cut due to budget reductions in the past or to save programs at risk of elimination due to lack of instruments.The foundation also conducts awareness campaigns, musical instrument drives and fundraising events. ... The system currently contains two databases: the music journal database of 12,000+ entries and thePoland-Cady Abstract Collection of 4,500+ entries on pre-1966 references important to musicteaching and learning. The music journal database contains the bibliographic information for thearticles contained in: Choral Journal, Council for Research in Music Education Bulletin, Dialoguein Instrumental Music Education, Instrumentalist, Jazz Educators Journal, Journal of Music TeacherEducation, Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, Philosophy of MusicEducation Review, Psychomusicology, Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, SoutheasternJournal of Music Education, and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. ... [Read More]
2004–2005 Fulbright Awards – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Musical Instrument Training ... Musical Composition ... [Read More]
Standard 1
• improvise short musical compositions that exhibit cohesiveness and musical expression ... • identify and describe the roles, processes, and actions needed to produce professional concerts and musical theatre productions ... • sing and/or play, alone and in combination with other voice or instrument parts, a varied repertoire of folk, art, and contemporary songs, from notation, with a good tone, pitch, duration, and loudness ... [Read More]
NYSL: Manuscripts and Special Collections: Music
The State Library is still adding to its sheet music collection. The Theodore Roosevelt memorabilia collection, acquired in 1998, included some musical scores, and the Library has also been acquiring music relating to African-American history. Unusual New York State imprints are also of interest to the Library. Other Collections ... Although New York City is often considered to be the heart of the music industry, the Library's collection shows that, for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, music publishing also flourished in Buffalo, Syracuse, Utica, Albany, and Troy, as well as in many smaller cities or towns in upstate New York. Included in the collection, for example, are scores from the early 1900s that were published by the Koninsky Music Company of Troy. There is also a rare copy of Please Say You Will , Scott Joplin's first published composition, which was printed in Syracuse in 1895, when Joplin visited the city as part of a musical touring group. ... [Read More]
Centennial Exhibition: Exhibition Facts | Music
M usic was an important part of the Centennial experience for every visitor. In the exhibition halls, along the garden walkways, in restaurants, there were concerts, choirs, organ recitals, chimes, minstrel shows, and musical instrument demonstrations adding to the hum of machinery, the rattle of the West End Railway, and the voices of thousands of visitors. ... Machinery Hall, of all places, was home to the Centennial Chimes , 13 chimes representing the 13 original colonies, played three times daily by a professor Widdows of Washington, D.C. There were daily concerts arranged by manufacturers of musical instruments. Visitors flocked to hear the Steinway Centennial Concert Grand Piano. A series of concerts was arranged by the Women's Committee at the Edwin Forrest estate. The Great American Restaurant offered a beer garden with concert music, and the Restaurant of the South featured an "Old Time Darky Band." In addition, every state day, every special event, was the occasion for more concerts, marching bands, and choruses. ... [Read More]
Events
The legendary Celedonio Romero, with his sons Celin, Pepe and Angel, founded the internationally renowned ensemble known to millions as "The Royal Family of the Guitar." The Quartet has gone through natural transformations, and today consists of the second (Celin & Pepe) and third generation (Lito & Celino). The Romeros continue to dazzle audiences and critics around the globe with their striking mixture of matching techniques, individual brilliance, breathtaking precision, and perfect musical understanding. To have so many virtuosi of the same instrument in one family is unique in the world of musical performance, and in the realm of the classical guitar it is absolutely without precedent. "One of the enduring mysteries of musical talent is how skills seem to flow genetically from musical parent to musical child. In the Romero family the flow has been swift and unimpeded. The virtuosity of the four Romeros was uniformly solid and finely considered, as if these techniques had derived f ... [Read More]
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