Alma Bazel Androzzo (17 October 1912 - 11 October 2001) was an American composer, pianist and songwriter. [1]
Alma Androzzo was born Alma Irene Bazel in Harriman, Tennessee, USA. She had no formal musical education but was introduced to the piano at the age of five by her father Carl Frederick Bazel, who was a truck driver. [1]
Androzzo was brought up in Philadelphia where she graduated from high school. [1]
In 1934, she married her first husband Andree Androzzo, a chef born in Morocco. Between 1934 and 1940 they lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her second marriage in 1957 was to a motor mechanic, Royal H Thompson, in Chicago. [1]
Her most famous song If I can help somebody was first recorded by Turner Layton in 1946. Since then it has been recorded by many other artists including Gracie Fields, Billy Eckstein, Harry Secombe, Doris Day, Mahalia Jackson, Joseph Locke, Liberarce and Bryn Terfel. [2]
She is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago. [3]
Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".
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Barry Ernest Conyngham,, is an Australian composer and academic. He has over seventy published works and over thirty recordings featuring his compositions, and his works have been premiered or performed in Australia, Japan, North and South America, the United Kingdom and Europe. His output is largely for orchestra, ensemble or dramatic forces. He is an Emeritus Professor of both the University of Wollongong and Southern Cross University. He is former Dean of the Faculty of the Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne.
Sheila Mary Nelson was an English musician, music educator, writer and composer. She had played with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Menuhin Festival Orchestra but was best known as a violin and viola teacher. She is usually referred to as Sheila Nelson but appears in her published works as Sheila M. Nelson.
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