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3 unusual facts about Maestro


Ghetto Concept

Their most popular single was a 2001 remix of their track "Too Much", entitled "Still Too Much", which featured Maestro, Kardinal Offishall, Red-1, Ironside, and Snow.

Giuseppe Rosaroll

Historian of fencing Jacopo Gelli considered Rosaroll and Pietro Grisetti as the regenerators of the true "Scuola Napoletana" of fencing, both were students of Tommaso Bosco e Fucile who was a Maestro of fencing in Naples.

Jason Lai

In 2007 he was one of the judges in the BBC2 classical music talent show Classical Star, and in August 2008 he appeared in the BBC reality TV show Maestro where he was a conducting mentor to Sue Perkins.


1561 in music

Rodrigo de Ceballos succeeds Bernardino de Figueroa as maestro de capilla at the Royal Chapel of Granada.

A Prison Diary

It was here that he apparently encountered another character inspiring a short story in Cat O'Nine Tales, Maestro.

Anna Tomowa-Sintow

With that maestro, she recorded Le nozze di Figaro (1978), Lohengrin (opposite René Kollo and Dunja Vejzovic, 1976-81) and Der Rosenkavalier (with Agnes Baltsa and Janet Perry, 1982).

Ascanio Mayone

He trained as a pupil of Giovanni de Macque in Naples, and worked at Santissima Annunziata Maggiore there as organist from 1593 and maestro di cappella from 1621; he was also organist at the royal chapel from 1602.

Atul Gautam

Atul Gautam (1973 – 16 January 2005) was a talented Tabla Maestro of Nepal, born in 1973.

Avantix Mobile

Visa Electron and International Maestro cards are not accepted on any portable equipment due to the need for online authorisation.

Bashar Lulua

In a 2009 masterclass guided by Maestro Jorma Panula with the Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, Bashar conducted the first movement of the Resurrection Symphony by Gustav Mahler.

Boyd Estus

An Academy Award winner, Boyd Estus has received numerous awards including the CINE Golden Eagle (Where the Galaxies Are, Arthur Fiedler--Just Call Me Maestro, Flight of the Gossamer Condor), Melbourne International Film Festival Kino Award (So Many Galaxies...So Little Time), the Peabody Award (NOVA, Tender Places), the Cindy, Emmy, Telly, Hugo Award, and many others.

David Itkin

In 2012, Maestro Itkin was involved in a contentious departure from the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra.

Edgar Müller

and has been featured as "Maestro Madonnaro" at the Sarasota Chalk Festival.

Flonzaley Quartet

Both violinists and the violist had been students of the Belgian maestro César Thomson, who would also teach members of a contemporaneous pioneering American chamber group, the Zoellner Quartet.

Francis Dennis Ramsay

His formal training included reading Architecture at University College London and three years’ study in Florence (1953–1955) as a pupil of Pietro Annigoni (1910–1988), the internationally renowned grande maestro portrait painter of the 20th century (Annigoni subsequently became a godfather to Ramsay’s younger son, Justin).

Fritz Leiber, Sr.

In the film Champagne Waltz, he portrayed an orchestra maestro; the role required him to play classical music on a violin and jazz on a clarinet.

Giovanni Rovetta

Giovanni Rovetta (1596–1668) was an Italian Baroque composer and maestro di capella of the Capella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica, Venice between Monteverdi and Cavalli.

Giulio Belli

In 1582 he took a position as maestro di cappella at Imola cathedral.

Issue number

An issue number is a supplementary number to the account number of certain debit cards, primarily United Kingdom ones such as Switch and Maestro.

Jhan Gero

Gero was employed at some unknown time as maestro di cappella for Pietro Antonio Sanseverino, the Prince of Bisignano, according to the dedicatory epistle to Gero's 1555 book of motets.

Juan de Araujo

On his return to Peru, he was hired as maestro de capilla of Cuzco Cathedral, and in 1680 of Sucre Cathedral (then the Cathedral of La Plata) in Bolivia, where he stayed until his death, and where he trained up to four notable música criollo composers including Blas Tardío de Guzmán.

Labor Day Carnival

Many Calypso and Soca songs from Trinidad make reference to the Labor Day Carnival, including "Gunplay on the Eastern Parkway" by Calypso Rose, "Melee (on the Eastern Parkway)" by Maestro, and "Labor Day in Brooklyn" by the Mighty Sparrow.

Luigi Marini

In 1929 he sang this role in the first complete recording of Andrea Chénier made together with Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala di Milano under the baton of maestro Lorenzo Molajoli (Naxos Historical 8.110066-67).

Maestro Armando Ortega

Many of his works were performed by the stars of his age: the tenor Raphael J. Sevilla, the first ballet dancer Luis Mauricio Caracas, the singer Betty Fabila, Maestro Ramón Noble, the Baritone Fernando Vivanco Barceló, and performances from the Maestro himself, who had a wonderful voice too.

Maestro de campo

One of the most famous maestro de campo was Julian Romero, a common soldier who reached the rank of maestro de campo and that brought victory to the Spanish tercios in the battles of San Quintín and Gravelines.

Maestro guitars

Many different variables of tone woods are used in Maestro’s line of ukuleles, including Flame maple, acacia koa, Red Cedar, Cocobolo, Java Rosewood and Granadillo.

Make the World Go Away

In Italy there were two local versions: the first, with the title Resta solo come sei (Stay as just the way you are), with the Italian lyrics written by Leo Chiosso, was recorded in 1964 by Iva Zanicchi; the second, with the title Qualche cosa tra noi (Something between us), adapted and arranged by Maestro Giancarlo Chiaramello, was recorded in the late 1967 by the Japanese singer Yoko Kishi.

Mary Lou Metzger

During her twelve years on the show, she sang as part of a female trio with fellow Welk stars Gail Farrell and Sandi Griffiths, various group numbers, and song-and-dance numbers with Jack Imel; she also danced with the maestro himself at the end of each show.

Master of Crea

Maestro della Cappella di Santa Margherita a Crea, or more simply Maestro di Crea, is the name given to the anonymous Italian painter who was engaged by Guglielmo VIII Paleologo, Marquis of Montferrat, to decorate the chapel of Santa Margherita in the Santuario della Madonna di Crea near Serralunga di Crea (Province of Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy).

Olga Kern

She also studied with Boris Petrushansky at the Accademia Pianistica "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola.

Olga Najera-Ramirez

Olga's involvement with Los Mejicas during her undergraduate career in 1976 gave her the opportunity to meet Rafael Zamarripa, a well known folklorico maestro, in Colorado at Asociacion Nacional de Grupos Folkloricos, ANGF.

Orquesta de Baja California

In April 2005, it toured under Maestro Romero's direction with American musician Sean Bradley and some other American orchestra players to perform at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York.

Paul McStay

Paul Michael Lyons McStay OBE, nicknamed the Maestro (born 22 October 1964, Hamilton), is a former football player who spent his entire career with Scottish team Celtic F.C., making his debut in 1982 and retiring in 1997.

PBS A/S

The company is involved with both Danish and international payment cards, namely Dankort, (Denmark's national debit card) and eDankort as well as MasterCard, Maestro, Visa, Visa Electron, American Express, JCB, and China UnionPay.

Phares Oluoch Kanindo

Among the prominent Kenyan artists who produced their music at POK Music Stores include the late Kenyan Benga Maestro Collela Mazee, Kawere Boys, Kalusi Band.

Poetry Records

He holds a masters degree from the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston), where he studied with great guitarist Maestro Eliot Fisk.

Pope John Paul II and Judaism

This concert, which was conceived and conducted by American Maestro Gilbert Levine, was attended by the Chief Rabbi of Rome, the President of Italy, and survivors of the Holocaust from around the world.

Robert Filliou

Robert Filliou (Born January 17, 1926, in Sauve, France - Died December 2, 1987, in Les Eyzies, France) was a French Fluxus artist, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro.

Rondò Veneziano

Rondò Veneziano is an Italian chamber orchestra, specializing in Baroque music, playing original instruments, but incorporating a rock-style rhythm section of synthesizer, bass guitar and drums, led by Maestro Gian Piero Reverberi, who is also the principal composer of all of the original Rondo Veneziano pieces.

Salvatore Postiglione

In 1881 at Turin, he exhibited: Arnaldo da Brescia and Pope Adrian IV; at the 1887 National Exhibition at Venice, he displayed the San Pier Damiano canvas, and a Portrait del mio maestro.

Shye Ben Tzur

In addition to musical ventures with Indian Folk artists, Shye has collaborated with the famous Indian singer Shubha Mudgal, the Spanish guitar maestro Fernando Perez, Yossi Fine, Mishko M’ba, Eli Magen, Zohar Fresco, and many others.

The Adventures of Shirley Holmes

In the same year, Elizabeth Stewart won a WGC Award from the Writers Guild of Canada for her writing of the episode "The Case of the Maestro's Ghost".

The Black Tie Affair

Maestro used "Nothin' at All" as a way to acknowledge the achievements of prominent Black Canadians, mentioning Egerton Marcus, Ben Johnson, Lennox Lewis, Oscar Peterson, and Salome Bey in the third verse, while criticizing "race scientist" Jean Philippe Rushton in the first verse.

Toscanini: The Maestro

Toscanini: The Maestro is a documentary produced and directed by Peter Rosen, about Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, who is considered by many to be the greatest maestro of the twentieth century.

Vache Sharafyan

Among Sharafyan’s participated festivals in 2005-2011 are: in January 2005 Budapest Mini Festival; in March 2005 in Transcaucacian Festival of Modern Music in Georgia; Mansfield Symphony concert at Renaissance Theatre with premiering of Tenor Saxophone Concerto played by maestro James Houlik and cond.

Vincenzo Ruffo

In 1572 he became the maestro di cappella at Pistoia, and then Milan again; for his final job he had a similar employment at the cathedral in Sacile, where he died in 1587.

Walkeshwar Temple

It is currently the site of an annual Hindustani classical music festival, which in 2005 featured musicians like classical singers Rajan and Sajan Mishra, and Santoor maestro Shivkumar Sharma.

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

The orchestra under Maestro Barenboim, in the presence of President and Mrs. Giorgio Napolitano, performed for Pope Benedict XVI at the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, the abbot Saint Benedict of Nursia's (the founder of the Benedictines) feast day, and thus the name day of the Pope.

Yapton

Duncan Goodhew, the Olympic swimming maestro was brought up in Yapton.


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