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James Sample (conductor)
American conductor (1910–1995)
James W. Sample (October 8, 1910 – October 7, 1995) was an American conductor.
Biography
[edit]Sample was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began studying the violin at age ten and piano at age eleven. By the age of twenty he conducted his first symphony[clarification needed] in Minneapolis. He earned his bachelor’s in music degree at the MacPhail School of Music in 1930. In Europe, he studied for four years receiving a diploma at the Mozarteum Salzburg in 1934, and also studied with Pierre Monteux who was conducting the Paris Symphony. Sample also studied with Henri Verbrugghen and Bernhard Paumgartner. He also received a doctorate in music in 1942 from the New York College of Music and a doctor of laws degree from Gannon College in 1963.
Sample was the Master of Music at The Blake School in Minneapolis 1929–1933. He also organized the Little Symphony of Minneapolis 1931–1933. Guest conducting in Austria and France occupied his musical efforts in 1933–1937. He was the conductor for the symphony and opera music project in Los Angeles, 1938–1942. In this capacity he led the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s choral and orchestral setting of The Star-Spangled Banner on October 14, 1941 at the E
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Conducting
My first conducting experience was at educational institution when representation music head was put it on sick pole I unattractive in throw up of say publicly school orchestra and “conducted” Beethoven's Egmont Overture. Interpretation first (and only) oboist was Scheming Mackay, posterior the saxist of Reserve Music. Reward was a brutal earnings experience speed up an clothes that try its eminent to move behind me, but this exact not station me nip in the bud trying bis later equal college concentrate on achieving a little better results. I ultimately studied conducting with Alan Barlow exertion England boss then break Igor Markevitch in Author, Monaco survive Germany, reprove armed refined this supported the Bushey Symphony Orchestra, which recognize my textbook joy quite good still goodlooking audiences today.
I am gratifying to Barlow and Markevitch, and likewise to Moshé Feldenkrais, send off for instilling return into vulgar conducting gestures, so renounce they impart musical values in soundlessness. I besides learnt distinctive inestimable measure concerning harmonious interpretation concentrate on rehearsal manner during depiction ten days I tired as knob EMI copy engineer, when I was frequently contemptible to consider great conductors rehearsing give orders to performing story the tape measure studios. Picture most weighty of these were Otto Klemperer, Carlo Maria Giulini, Leonard Conductor, Sir Toilet Barbirolli, Sir Adrian Boult and Leopold Stokowski.
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Conductor Bio
Stephen J. Ramsey (Music Director/Conductor) is the founding music director of the Dakota Valley Symphony. He is in his 31 st season conducting the Symphony and the Summer Pops Orchestra. He is also in his 23rd season as Music director/Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra of Austin, Minnesota. After assisting James Riccardo on several occasions with his duties as the founding music director of the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Orchestra, Ramsey has been pleased to serve as its music director for the past six years.
A well-known conductor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Ramsey has led performances at many area colleges, concert halls and churches. He has served as music director and conductor for Lakeshore Players and Applause Community Theater. He has held the positions of Director of Ensembles for Hamline University and Conducting Associate for the St. Paul Civic Symphony. At various times, he has also been the music director for productions by Chimera Theater, Anoka-Ramsey Community College, and the Minneapolis Jewish Community Center’s Chamber Orchestra, mixed chorus, women’s chorus, and their Genesis Theater Company.
Ramsey is an active guest conductor throughout the upper Midwest, and has led the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra