You may find the 20 questions in this quiz surprising, and the answers more so. Unless, of course, you've already read A Song for the World, the remarkable story of the Colwell Brothers and Herb Allen. (See A Song for the World's website, link below). The seed of the book was planted in 2003, when with longtime friends we were discussing our thoughts for the future.
An attorney from California spoke of conflicts facing youth in her city, and the desperate need for solutions. "There ought to be a book about the Colwell Brothers and Herb Allen," she said. It was an idea that everyone in the room responded to. Then, perhaps because I'm a writer, several looked at me. Even if they hadn't, I knew this was a commission I couldn't refuse. I thought it was a story that I knew. But I was wrong. It was a story nobody knew, bigger than I had ever imagined. Writing it was a privilege, and an adventure.
Do you know:
1. Who was the twentieth century's youngest performing percussionist?
2. Who was the era's youngest orchestra conductor?
3. Who was with the first musical production to tour post-World War II Germany?
4. Who were in the first big-city bluegrass band?
5. Who were the youngest trio contracted by a major record label?
6. Who were the first Western musicians invited to sing in an Asian parliament?
7. Who was in the first American musical group to have a thirty-seven-language repertoire?
8. Who played in the most venues internationally of their generation?
9. Who performed in the most countries of anyone in their generation?
10. Who traveled the most miles of any musicians of their generation?
11. Who introduced Caribbean steel bands to North America?
12. Who set the Guinness World Record for continuous drumming?
13. Who created with others the second-longest running musical of the Twentieth century?
14. What show set the all-time record for U.S. cities toured in a single year?
15. Who were the first "outside" performers to tour Africa extensively in the 1950s and 60s?
16. Who took the first international musical show to Eastern Europe in the 1970s?
17. Who took the first multinational musical group to China after the Cultural Revolution?
18. Who took the first international musical group to the Soviet Union in the 1980s?
19. Who invented, with others, the non-marching band format of the Super Bowl halftime show?
20. Who wrote shows performed nine times with major symphonies and at six World Fairs?
Answers:
1. Herb Allen, age three, the world's youngest drummer, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
2. Herb Allen, age four, conducted the Seattle Baby Orchestra.
3. Herb Allen, age eighteen, was assistant music director of The Good Road.
4. Steve, Paul, and Ralph Colwell, ages fourteen, twelve, and ten in 1947, were labeled "Motor City Bluegrass Legends" by Eugene Chadbourne in All-Music Guide.
5. The Colwell Brothers, ages nineteen, seventeen, and fifteen, were contracted by Columbia Records in 1952.
6. The Colwell Brothers sang in the Japanese Diet in 1957.
7. The Colwells first sang in another language in Switzerland in 1953 for Robert Schuman, a founding father of the European Union, and eventually performed in thirty-seven languages and dialects.
8. The Colwell Brothers, in uncounted thousands of venues worldwide.
9. The Colwell Brothers performed in fifty-four countries.
10. The Colwells traveled farther than the Beatles and Elvis Presley combined.
11. Herb Allen in 1964 introduced the Steel Band of Trinidad and Tobago to the U.S. in a national tour.
12. Bob Quesnel, original drummer for Sing Out 65, played continuously for one hundred hours and twenty minutes in 1964 and made the Guinness Book of World Records.
13. Up with People's thirty-five-year run was second only to The Fantasticks, which closed in 2002.
14. In 1976, Up with People played in 771 U.S. cities to a total live-audience of 3.9 million.
15. The Colwells performed 412 programs on Radio Congo in 1960 and toured the country with Up with People in 1968.
16. Up with People toured in Yugoslavia in 1974 and Poland in 1976 and 1977.
17. Up with People toured in China in 1978 and 1985.
18. Up with People toured in the Soviet Union in 1988,'89, '90, and '91.
19. Up with People casts performed in Super Bowls X, XIV, XVI, and XX.
20. The Colwells and Allen, with others. Symphonies: Up with People performed with Dallas, Denver, and the Boston Pops (twice each); Winnipeg; Belgian National Symphony; and the National Symphony, Washington, D.C. World's Fairs: Expo '67, Montreal; Expo '74, Spokane; World Expo '68, Brisbane; Expo '82, Knoxville;
Although only one of the above claims ever made the Guinness Book of World Records, all the answers are believed to be true.
This brief history is divided into the following sections:
1. The arrival of the American continent to Western Music 2. American Baroque 3. Music of the Republic 4. 'Romanticism' and 'indigenous' 5. Modernism - First half of the twentieth century 6. Today 7. Bibliography and resources
The arrival of the American continent to Western Music
Spaniards who arrived in a first andalusia Peru (early sixteenth century) were people of weapons. They came with the knowledge of their songs warriors and peasants mon?dicos. These, though forged since the Middle Ages and perhaps earlier, barbaric and Arabic influence, and were submerged in the waters of the revolution renaissance. Together with soldiers arrived religious music quines used as a weapon to catechesis. Thus, when the Indians to teach singing tone flat and Organum (or, the church called monophonic Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony) necen the first manifestations of musical miscegenation.
Early s. XVI appears in book form and Ritual Institution Cures Andahuaylillas's a Franciscan priest Juan Perez de Bocanegra processional song written in a language Quechua Hanac entitled Pachap (Midi file, 1.4 Kb), which is the first example of Western music written survivor in Peru. Its authorship is questionable, since it belonged to an indigenous pordr'a instructed as to a religious medium talent, attributed the letter the author of the book. What is clear is that this is a work of polyphonic Renaissance style, with sub cadences of music or music ficta intellect, and though many think otherwise, are hardly in their setbacks pentaf?nicos lines, but rather, flavors manners.
The major music centers were established, and throughout America, the religious centers. Thus, in Peru, were Cuzco, Lima and Trujillo the most important and Arequipa, Huanuco, Huamanga other smaller scale. However, in all the churches was music, whether of body or voice. Many foreign musicians who are calling for the land in these times, most peninsular: Belzayaga Cristobal, Pedro Jimenez, Jose de Campderr's, Gutierre Fernandez de Hidalgo, who also introduced American music of Palestrina, Cristobal de Morales, Francisco Arauxo belt, Cabanillas, Aguilera de Heredia, Tom's de Herrera, and so on.
American Baroque
Baroque music is based in Peru in the late s. XVII. The way music is used during this period the Spanish Baroque villancicos. This form can be monophonic or polyphonic. It consists of two sections: Chorus and ballads, which alternate. In general, if the carol is polyphonic, the chorus is in ternary rhythm and imitative counterpoint and ballads in binary rhythm and style homof?nico, similar to coral German. They were accompanied by a continuo organ or harp and violin.
Christmas carols were written for all the offices of the church calendar. It was originally imported from Spain, but then with the coming of musicians from Europe, were written here by these religious and mestizo Peruvians initiated in the art of music. These include, among foreign musicians coming to Peru, Spanish and Thomas Torrej'n Velasco, author of the existing first American opera, La Purpura de la Rosa, with text by Calderon de la Barca and premiered in Lima in 1701. Another Spanish is the era of Juan de Araujo (1646-1712), famous for its Christmas carols Flame of Love, The Star of C'flades (black), and so on. Cusco is Ignacio Quispe, the author of A gentlemen of good taste.
Over the years, leaving aside the Spanish style, and introducing ways and means Italian, as in the metropolitan court, the charges taken in vogue in the peninsula: the monody (vocals and bass), the use of an instrumental ensemble of two violins and, without violating the cantatas for voice alone, and so on. In Peru, the introduction of the Italian taste was due to Virrey Manual Oms and Santa Pau, Marquis de Castell two Rius. Along with him came Roque Cerutti Italian musician (1688-1760), who introduced the violin, the secco recitative, the bass, the thought harmonic parts obligatio and da capo aria. He composed operas, like Best Coat of Perseus and the Triumph of Love and Power, Neapolitan style. A sainete also composed a carol singing (MP3, 4.92 MB temporarily unavailable). In Cusco flourishes Esteban Ponce de Leon, composer of the serenade Come, come Deydades.
Born around 1706 in the city of Huacho the greatest Baroque composer born in the region and Orej'n Jose Aparicio. His works of Neapolitan influence, show a total domination of the compositional technique of the period. Cerutti was a direct influence, but soon overtook their model. Among his best known works are The Butterfly, the cantata Oh joy! The Passion According to St. John is known and he wrote music for organ (also given his status as master of chapel of the cathedral of Lima), but his instrumental is not known. He died in Lima in 1765.
By mid and late eighteenth century, became popular music scene, especially tonadillas stage. These pieces were seasoned with sainetes popular songs and rhythms. This time are known composers Bartolomeo Massa, Italian and Rafael Soria. They are also famous singers Ines de Mayorga and Micaela Villegas "The Perricholi" loving viceroy Amat.
The latter years of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century marked the decline of the colonial baroque music. In Peru, there was the appearance of the classic musical style. While there was a simplification of the elements of the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this simplification does not become the onset of a new style, but followed the pattern marked by Spain and was an Italian style homof?nico (such as in the peninsula under the influence of Scarlatti, Carlo Broschi "Farinelli" and Bocherini) In this period belong Toribio del Campo and Pando, famous for its Charter on music appeared in the "Mercurio Peruano", Juan Beltran, a teacher at Chapel Lima's cathedral until 1807, Pedro Jimenez and Pedro Tirado of April, and the Genoese Andres Bolognesi, who introduced the opera Cimarosa, Paisiello and Rossini, and send transcribing music files from the cathedral to modern notation (anteriomente is mensural notation used) disposal which was very outdated and destroying the originals of these transcripts by unserviceable.
The last master of the chapel which was then the Cathedral of Lima was Llaque Boniface, author of religious music, who in 1839 had to resign to be deprived of salary like all musicians, giving an end to a period of flowering music, entering a large backlog of state of the art of sound
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