Biography: Aime Maillart, Airardus of Vezelay, Akira Ifukube, Al Collins, Al Kealoha Perry, Alan Bush, Alan Davis, Alan Davis, Alan Hawkshaw,

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Aime Maillart Biography, Photos, Pictures

A composition student of Halevy and Leborne at the Paris Conservatoire, Maillart also studied violin with Guerin His first place finish in the “Prix de Rome” was for a cantata “Lionel Foscari

Airardus of Vezelay Biography, Photos, Pictures

Airardus of Vizelay (also known as Viciliacensis) was more than likely a member of a Bendictine monastery who may have composed a conductus in two parts entitled “Annua gaudia

Akira Ifukube Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of the most respected of serious composers in Japan since the 1950s, Akira Ifukbe has also led something of a double life as one of the most popular and prolific film composers in Japan since the late ’40s

Orchestra violinist Al Collins worked in the ’50s with the light classical or mood music composer Robert Farnon ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide

Al Kealoha Perry Biography, Photos, Pictures

Al Kealoha Perry was born in Kohala, Hawaii, to a Hawaiian mother and English father He began singing in 1929 with the Aloha Temple Shrine Chanters, and in 1935 he led the Honolulu Hale Glee Club

Bush studied at the RAM as well as philosophy and musicology at the University of Berlin He has served as a professor of music at the RAM and as conductor to the London Labour Choral Union

Designer and illustrator Alan Davis has done many classical projects, primarily for the Telarc label ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide

The executive producer Alan Davis’ credits include the marvelous compilation entitled And the Band Played On, featuring a program of music actually played on Titanic, some of it while the ship was sinking

Alan Hawkshaw Biography, Photos, Pictures

Session keyboardist and arranger Alan Hawkshaw has worked with Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Dusty Springfield, Barbra Streisand, and Olivia Newton-John Just as notably, Hawkshaw was a member of Love & Kisses, a campy late ’70s disco outfit that released a trio of albums on Casablanca and scored the theme song for the movie Thank God It’s Friday

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