Short Biography
James Last (born Hans Last on April 17, 1929 in Bremen) is a German composer and big band leader. Last learned to play the piano as a child, then switched to double bass as a teenager. At 14 he was entered in the Bückeburg Military Music School of the German Wehrmacht. After the fall of the ... Read More...
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The day the music died - Buffalo News It was written shortly after the last piano roll came off the assembly line at QRS Music Technologies, 1026 Niagara St., at noon Wednesday. The halt in production comes 108 years after the company was founded in Chicago, and 42 years since it moved ...
Colburn Conservatory of Music prepares the orchestras of tomorrow - Los Angeles Times "All children, except one, grow up," Linda Brest announces. An oboe student with a streak of pink in her blond hair, she might be verbalizing the innermost thoughts of the peers who sit before her -- some of the nation's finest young musicians on the ...