Born in The Bronx, New York on Nov. 14, 1946
- Jay Ungar is a folk musician and composer best known for his original work, Ashokan Farewell, which was used as the theme song for the Ken Burns docuseries, The Civil War.
Born in The Bronx, New York on Nov. 14, 1946
Born in Washington, DC, June 27, 1922
Died in Montclair, NJ, Aug 23, 2018
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Born in Clarksville, TN, Aug 10, 1880
New York, June 30, 1960
Born in Atlanta, GA in 1958.
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Born in Beijing, July 8, 1953
Zhou is the composer’s surname. It is appropriate to refer to him as Zhou Long or Dr. Zhou.
Pronunciation: IPA [dʒoʊ lɔŋ]
Pronunciation: Phonetic “jo long”
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Born in Miami, April 30, 1939
“Concise, economical and clean in texture, Zwilich’s music might be classified under the rubric ‘neo-classic’ were it not for its very ‘neo-romantic’ expressive force.”
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Short biography from the Library of Congress