New York College of Music
American conservatory of music located in Manhattan that flourished from 1878 to 1968.
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The Turn of the Screw (opera)
20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas".
The opera was given its British premiere on 6 October 1954 by the Sadler's Wells Opera in London; the North American premiere on 23 August 1957 at Canada's Stratford Festival with the English Opera Group; the US premiere followed on 19 March 1958 at the New York College of Music.
Barry Manilow
American singer and songwriter with a career that spans seven decades.
He enrolled in the City College of New York, where he briefly studied before entering the New York College of Music.
Cecil Taylor
American pianist and poet.
He began playing piano at age six and went on to study at the New York College of Music and New England Conservatory in Boston.
Jerome Kern
American composer of musical theatre and popular music.
His father relented, and later in 1902, Kern became a student at the New York College of Music, studying the piano under Alexander Lambert and Paolo Gallico, and harmony under Dr. Austin Pierce.
Lil Hardin Armstrong
Jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader.
She later studied at the New York College of Music, where she earned a post-graduate diploma in 1929.
Leonardo Balada
Catalan American classical composer, who is noted for his operas and orchestral works.
After studying piano at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona, Balada emigrated to the United States in 1956 to study at the New York College of Music on scholarship.
Cy Coleman
American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.
Coleman studied at New York's The High School of Music & Art and the New York College of Music, graduating in 1948.
Jerry González
American bandleader, trumpeter and percussionist of Puerto Rican descent.
After deciding this was his calling, González completed his formal studies at New York College of Music and New York University.
Alexander Lambert
Pianist and a piano teacher.
After moving to New York, he was faculty of New York College of Music.
René McLean
Hard bop saxophonist and flutist.
He later studied music at New York College of Music and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.