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Eno, Brian

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English musician, composer, theorist, and producer. A pioneer of ambient music, he manipulated sound to create texture, atmosphere, and mood. First reaching international audiences as the flamboyant synthesizer player for the seminal glam rock band Roxy Music in the early 1970s, he went on to pioneer the use of technology in composition and to influence a range of contemporary music genres. As a producer, Eno collaborated with major talents including David Bowie , Talking Heads , U2 , Paul Simon , and Coldplay . Eno's ambient concept was epitomized in his album Music for Airports (1978), designed to be played in a continuous loop in airports to soothe the nerves of anxious passengers. Eno was born in Woodbridge, England. Inspired by contemporary and minimalist composers, he launched his solo career after leaving Roxy Music in 1973. He created tape delays of King Crimson's Robert Fripp (1946– )'s guitar riffs for the album No Pussyfooting (1973), and followed this with Here Come the…
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From A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
(15 May 1948; b. Brian Peter George E.) A prolific producer of recordings, though formally untrained in music, Eno adapted avant-garde ideas for more popular purposes; only some survive as consequential innovative art. As a sort of CULTURAL LEADER, he founded Obscure Records (1975–78), which offered…
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s of William Arnold Eno (d 1988), of Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Maria Alphonsine, née Buslot b. 15 May 1948 St Mary's Convent, St Joseph's Coll, Ipswich Sch of Art, Winchester Coll of Art 1, 11 March 1967, Sarah Grenville; 1 c (Hannah b 25 July 1967); m 2, 11 Jan 1988, Anthea Norman-Taylor; 2 c (Irial…
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Full text Article Mills, Russell (b. 1952)

From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
British illustrator and multimedia artist whose work challenges the traditional divisions between art, design and illustration. Trained in England, initially as a graphic designer at Canterbury College of Art (1970–71) and Maidstone College of Art (1971–74), before studying illustration at the Royal…
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Island 99430 Chart debut June 13, 1987 (#1 for 2 weeks); reached #6 in England; 1 from the album The Joshua Tree (9 weeks at #1) ( RS-#93, RHF, RIA-#120, ACC, DMDB ) A song of deep spiritual doubt, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For was inspired when lead singer Bono listened to classic…
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Full text Article Fitzgerald, Edward

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English poet and translator. His poetic version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám (1859) (and often revised), with its resonant and melancholy tone, is generally considered more an original creation than a true translation. It is known throughout all the English-speaking countries and has passed…
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Full text Article Hassell, Jon (22 Mar. 1937, Memphis)

From The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
Studied in Cologne with Stockhausen and Pousseur (1965–67), then with Rogers at the Eastman School (M.M., 1970). He performed in minimalist ensembles of Riley and Young; in 1972 he began to study Indian classical music with the singer Pandit Pran Nath and imitates some aspects of that music in his…
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Full text Article Glass, Philip

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born Jan. 31, 1937, Baltimore, Md., U.S.) U.S. composer. He studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Chicago and then studied composition at the Juilliard School and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. His later studies with the Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar in 1966 and the tabla player…
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