Sila Blume
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The Life You Give: Carla Bley *1936 or 1938
A highly regarded pianist, composer, and arranger, Carla Bley has been at the forefront of avant-garde jazz and modern creative music since the ’60s. She initially emerged as a composer, working closely with her first husband, pianist Paul Bley, as well as progressive artists like George Russell and Jimmy Giuffre. She is a founder of…
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Salvador Dalí *V 11 1904 / La Vida Que Das — The Life You Give
See english text below Salvador Dalí nació el 11 de mayo de 1904 a las 8,45 de la mañana en el pueblo de Figueres, Girona. Bautizado como Salvador, Domingo, Felipe, Jacinto Dalí, hijo de Salvador Dalí i Cusí, notario, y Felipa Doménech. Nació nueve meses y diez días exactos después de enterrado un primer Salvador…
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Bono *V 10 1960 / The Life You Give
Bono, born Paul David Hewson, May 10, 1960, in Dublin, Ireland, is lead singer for the popular Irish rock band U2 and prominent human rights activist. He was born of a Roman Catholic father and a Protestant mother (who died when he was just age 14). In Dublin in 1977, he and school friends David…
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Milton Babbitt *V 10 1916 / The Life You Give
Milton Babbitt, born Milton Byron Babbitt, on May 10, 1916, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., is the composer and theorist known as a leading proponent of total serialism—i.e., musical composition based on prior arrangements not only of all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale (as in 12-tone music) but also of dynamics, duration, timbre (tone colour),…
