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unusual facts about music ensemble



Bizarre Inc

Bizarre Inc were a house/dance-pop band from Stafford, England, that formed in 1989 as a duo of English DJs Dean Meredith and Mark "Aaron" Archer (not to be confused with the film producer of same name).

Franco and Afro Musica

Franco and Afro Musica is a twelve piece Gabanean kwasa kwasa band founded by Frank "Franco" Lesokwane.As is the norm in the Rhumba circles for artists to go by more than one names, Lesokwane also goes by a plethora of names like Stango, Lepako and Chakala.

Love on Your Side – The Best of Thompson Twins

Love on Your Side – The Best of Thompson Twins is a double disc compilation (total running time: 152'58" minutes) of 36 tracks by British pop band Thompson Twins, released in 2007.


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Anne Cawrse

Her works have also been performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Trio d’anche Suave, the Sonic Art Ensemble and the Elder New Music Ensemble.

Arev

Arev Armenian Folk Ensemble, an Armenian traditional music ensemble from Watertown, Massachusetts, US

Bruce Cale

He worked with Bryce Rohde from 1962–65, then moved to England, where he played with Tubby Hayes and worked in John Stevens's Spontaneous Music Ensemble.

Crash Ensemble

Crash Ensemble is an Irish new music ensemble, founded in 1997 by composer Donnacha Dennehy, conductor and pianist Andrew Synott and clarinettist Michael Seaver.

David Ahern

In 1970, Ahern returned to Australia where, influenced by the Scratch Orchestra co-founded by Cardew, he formed the AZ Music ensemble at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, which included such composers and performers as Roger Frampton.

Donald Reid Womack

Womack’s works have been performed throughout the U.S., as well as in many countries in Europe, Asia, Oceania, and South America by such ensembles as the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Honolulu Symphony, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea, AURA-J, Asia Ensemble and the Salzburg Mozarteum String Quartet.

Dufay

Dufay Collective, an early-music ensemble from the United Kingdom, specializing in Medieval and Renaissance music and named after Guillaume Dufay

Ensemble Santenay

Ensemble Santenay's is an early music ensemble, originating in the Institute of Early Music in Trossingen, Germany.

Gamelan Council

The name of the organization is a combination of the Indonesian word referring to a music ensemble, ‘Gamelan,’ and English word referring to a Native American, community-fostering ritual, ‘Council’ (the same term used to refer commonly to a group of individuals providing advice and counsel).

Giovanni Antonini

In 1985, along with Luca Pianca, he co - founded Il Giardino Armonico, a pioneering Italian early-music ensemble based in Milan.

Gisela!

It was first performed in the Maschinenhalle Zeche Zweckel, Gladbeck, Germany, on 25 September 2010 as part of the Ruhrtriennale music and arts festival by the contemporary music ensemble musikFabrik in collaboration with local youth groups and students of the Folkwang University, Essen.

In C

Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble produced an album of remixed versions of In C with guest remixers including Jad Abumrad of Radiolab.

Jane's Minstrels

Jane's Minstrels is a virtuoso British new music ensemble set up in 1988 by the English soprano Jane Manning and her husband, the composer Anthony Payne.

Katia Escalera

Among her recordings are the collaborations with the Florilegium Music Ensemble on Bolivian Baroque Volumes 1 & 2.

Maggie Sansone

The label features over fifty recordings of Celtic and contemporary acoustic music featuring twelve recording artists that include Al Petteway, Amy White, Bonnie Rideout, Robin Bullock, Karen Ashbrook, Paul Oorts, the City of Washington Pipe Band, Ensemble Galilei, Sue Richards, Hesperus Early Music Ensemble with Tina Chancey and more.

Magnus Lindberg

This piece was written for and premiered by the new-music ensemble Toimii ("It Works" in the Finnish language), which Lindberg founded during the summer of 1980.

Malcolm Gillies

From 2000 to 2010 he was Board Chair of the international contemporary-music ensemble, Elision.

Marković

Boban Marković, Serbian Roma trumpet player and leader of a brass music ensemble.

Nox Illuminata

Artists who have performed at the festival include the British lutenist Anthony Rooley, the soprano Evelyn Tubb, the Swiss musician Nik Bärtsch with his group Ronin, and the early music ensemble Mediva.

Peter Elyakim Taussig

He gave frequent concerts, both as a soloist - with such conductors as Sir Andrew Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, the late Erich Kunzel and Arthur Fiedler, and with his innovative music ensemble, Camerata-Canada.

Richard Toensing

Toensing retired in 2005 from the College of Music, where he served as Professor of Composition and as the former Director of the University's Electronic Music Studio, New Music Festival, and New Music Ensemble, as well as Chair of the Composition and Theory department from 1984 to 2001.

Rodolfo Vieira

Vieira has collaborated with student composers in Chicago, NU Contemporary Music Ensemble, Latin Music Festival with US premieres and Lucerne Music Festival Academy in Switzerland under supervision of Pierre Boulez.

Šarišan

Šarišan is Slovak folk music ensemble that was founded in 1967 in the town of Veľký Šariš (Great Šariš) from which the group's name derives.

Second Viennese School

The term "Third Viennese School" is occasionally used to refer to the composers surrounding the Viennese new music ensemble Klangforum Wien, including its founder Beat Furrer and other late modernists such as Helmut Lachenmann, Olga Neuwirth, Friedrich Cerha and Bernhard Lang.

Spontaneous Music Ensemble

The Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) was a loose collection of free improvising musicians convened beginning in the mid-1960s by the late South London-based jazz drummer/trumpeter John Stevens and alto and soprano saxophonist Trevor Watts.