Leonard Cohen | fr

Lorsque l’on évoque Leonard Cohen, le monde se partage immédiatement en deux camps : les contres (ceux qui le trouvent triste et barbant) et les pour, les admirateurs, ceux qui voient en lui un grand auteur-compositeur, un spécimen unique dans l’histoire du rock. Mais dans un cas comme dans l’autre, Leonard Cohen ne laisse personne indifférent, ce qui est sans doute la marque de son immense talent. Un talent dont la parution du CD More Best Of, un portrait de l’artiste couvrant les années 84 à 97 permet une nouvelle fois de mesurer toute l’étendue Leonard Cohen est né en...

Leonard Bernstein est un compositeur, chef d'orchestre et pianiste américain, né à Lawrence (Massachusetts) le 25 août 1918 et mort à New York le 14 octobre 1990. Bernstein fait ses études à l'université de Harvard jusqu'en 1939, puis rencontre les chefs d'orchestre Fritz Reiner, Dimitri Mitropoulos, puis Serge Koussevitzky dont il devient l'assistant en 1940 à Tanglewood. Il est nommé chef assistant de l'Orchestre philharmonique de New York dès 1943 avant de revenir à Tanglewood afin de diriger et d'enseigner à partir de 1951. De 1958 à 1973, il présente les Young People's Concerts à la télévision, émissions au cours...

Christopher Paul Leonard-Morgan (born 1974) is a Scottish composer, particularly known for his work in scoring for television and film. He won a BAFTA award for his first film score, the movie Pineapple. He was also nominated for a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello award for his score to the ITV drama Fallen. He composed the scores for series 5, 6,7 and 8 of the long-running BBC spy drama Spooks. In 2008 he was chosen by the U.S. Olympic Committee to compose a new US Olympic Team anthem. After graduating from the renowned Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama,...

Leonardo Amuedo ( Montevideo , Uruguay , September 20, 1967 ) is a guitarist known for his performances with Ivan Lins. Learned guitar from his brother at age 4 . At 17 he began studying theory musical. Amuedo won four times Grammy Award. Worked with many important musicians from Uruguay, as Julio Frade , Hugo and Osvaldo Fattoruso , Urbano Moraes , Fernando Roasted and Mariana Ingold . Lived and worked in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2002 and during this period played and recorded with Fernando Lameirinhas , Jewel , Laura Fygi , Josee Koning , Trijntje Oosterhuis ,...

Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) was an Italian musical composer, best known for his operas. He was born at Strongoli (or Naples) and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo. He first became known for his opera buffa in Neapolitan dialect in 1719; he also composed many opera seria. He was received into the Congregation of the Rosary at Formiello in 1728. He died in May of 1730. Vinci is rumoured to have been poisoned in the wake of a ill-advised affair. Vinci's opera buffa, of which Li zite 'ngalera (1722)...