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	Claudio Abbado	Index Card 3"x5"	Conductor. Born in Milan in 1933. Has conducted for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Abbado has made numerous recordings, mostly for Deutsche Grammophon, EMI Classics and Sony Classics.
	Lucia Aliberti	SP 4"x5 1/2"	Italian opera star and international recording artist known for her performances in operas by Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini. Aliberti has performed in many of the world's major opera houses, including La Scala, the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera House.
	Marin Alsop	Index Card 3"x5"	Recently made history with her appointment as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony beginning in 2007/8. She will be the first woman to head a major American orchestra. Has been Music Director for the Colorado Symphony for the last 12 years.
	Ray Anthony	SP 5"x8"	Legendary jazz trumpeter, recording mostly in the 1950s and 1960s. Famous for his rendition of The Bunny Hop, and also the theme for Peter Gunn.
	Vladimir Ashkenazy	Index Card 3"x5"	Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London from 1987 to 1994, he is now Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
	Milton Babbitt	Index Card 3"x5"	Born May 10, 1916, Babbitt is an American composer. He is known for his pioneering serial and electronic music. He has been a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, and is a recipient of a special Pulitzer Prize for his work as a composer.
	Daniel Barenboim	SP 5"x8"	Israeli pianist and conductor, born in Argentina in 1942. Has conducted for many of the major orchestras worldwide, and has made several recordings.
	Joshua Bell	Index Card 3"x5"	American violinist, born in Indiana in 1967. He made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1987. He has made a number of recordings, worldwide concerts, videos and TV appearances.
	Elmer Bernstein	Index Card 3"x5"	American film and television composer (1922-2004), and wrote the themes or background music for over 200 films, including The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, and the TV shows Gunsmoke, Rookies, and The Big Valley.
	Diane Bish	SP 4"x7"	Internationally known organist and composer. Studied with the renowned teacher Nadia Boulanger. Best known for her television series The Joy of Music.
	Andrea Bocelli	Index Card 3"x5"	Italian opera singer. Often called "The man with the most beautiful voice in the world." Has made many TV appearances and numerous CDs.
	Leon Botstein	SP 5"x8"	Botstein has been music director of the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992. In 2003 he was appointed music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
	Pierre Boulez	Signed Postcard	Conductor, pianist and composer of experimental music, born in 1925. Music Director for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra from 1971 to 1977. In 1995 he was appointed principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. From 1999 to 2003 he was composer-in-residence at Carnegie Hall.
	[Antonia Brico]	TL	Dutch-born American conductor and pianist (1902-1989). The first woman to gain wide recognition as a leader of world-class symphony orchestras.
	Jose Carreras	SP 8"x10"	Italian opera singer, known for his appearances with Luciano Pavorrati and Placido Domingo - "The Three Tenors."
	Jean-Claude Casadesus	SP 5"x7"	Born in Paris in 1935. Hired as conductor of the Paris Opera in 1969. Deputy director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Loire Region until 1976. Dircetor of the Lille National Orchestra, and has conducted many of the world's major orchestras, including London, Vienna and Moscow. He is an Officer of the Legion of Honor and Chevalier des Palmes Académiques.
	Ray Charles	SP 8"x10"	Ray Charles (1930-2004) was an American singer, pianst and composer. First hit was in 1951 with "Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand." Best known for his songs "What'd I Say," "Hit the Road, Jack," and "Georgia On My Mind." Was the subject of the recent movie "Ray," starring Jamie Foxx, who won the 2005 Academy Award for his performace.
	Chubby Checker	SP 5"x7"	American rock n' roll musician. Born in 1941. Best known for his hit "The Twist," which he first performed on American Bandstand in 1960. The song created a craze, and was widely credited for being the first to get couples to dance apart on the dance floor.
	Aldo Ciccolini	SP 5"x7"	Internationally known French concert pianist and recording artist. Born in Naples. Ciccolini is a celebrated interpreter of the piano music of the French composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy.
	Bill Conti	Index Card 3"x5"	Emmy Award winning composer whose films include Harry and Tonto (1974), Rocky II (1979), The Karate Kid (1984), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), and the TV series Falcon Crest (1981), Cagney & Lacey (1982), Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (1984), and the 71st Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show (1999)
	Chick Corea	SP 8"x10"	American jazz pianist and composer, born in 1941. Known for his work in jazz fusion in the 1970s. Was a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s. Corea is a Scientologist.
	Regine Crespin	SP 5"x7"	Critically acclaimed French soprano, born in 1927. Made her operatic debut in 1950 at the Paris Opera. Made her American debut in 1962 at the Metropolitan Opera House.
	Peter Maxwell Davies	Index Card 3"x5"	British composer. Born in 1934 in Salford, England. Studied at Princeton University with composers Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt. Former Artistic Director of the Dartington Summer School, and was asociate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also known for his work as an environmentalist.
	Andrew Davis	SP 5"x7"	British conductor. Music director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera since 1988. He has guested with the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera and the Royal Opera at Convent Gardens. He has been Chief Conductor for the BBC since 1989. Since 2000 be has been Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Chicago Lyric Opera.
	Raphael Frubeck deBurgos	Index Card 3"x5"	World-class symphony conductor, arranger and music director.
	Norman della Joio	Index Card 3"x5"	Italian/American classical composer, born in 1913. Attended the Institute of Musical Art and the Juilliard Graduate School in New York City, and at Yale University under the great German composer Paul Hindemith. He has taught at Mannes College, and at Boston University.
	Mischa Dichter	Index Card 3"x5"	Polish pianist and recording artist, born in 1945 in Shanghai. Acclaimed for his rendition of Liszt's piano works, and received the "Grand Prix International du Disque Liszt" in 1998. He has toured extensively and has been seen on television, both in Europe and America.
	Fats Domino	Index Card 3"x5"	R&B and rock n' roll singer, born Antione Dominique Domino in New Orleans in 1928. He was the best selling black singer in the 1950s and 1960s. Has toured worldwide, and was the first artist to be announced as a performer at the 2006 Jazz & Heritage Festival.
	Christoph Eschenbach	SP 5"x7"	Conductor and music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Has toured internationally and has conducted the Vienna Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, among others, and has made several recordings for the Decca, EMI, CBS/Sony and RCA Red Seal labels.
	Kevin Eubanks	SP 5"x7"	American jazz guitarist and band leader. Born Tyrone Eubanks in Philadelphia in 1957. Best known as leader of the Tonight Show band, with host Jay Leno. Eubanks is a vegetarian.
	Daniele Gatti	SP 5"x8"	Italian conductor, considered "the foremost conductor of his time." Music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 1996. Past music director of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome. Has toured worldwide and conducted the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, and the Royal Concertgebouw orchestras, among others.
	Gordon Getty	Index Card 3"x5"	American businessman and composer of classical music. Born in San Francisco in 1934. Son of J. Paul Getty, Sr., and heir to the Getty oil fortune. Attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is a board member of the Getty Museum in Malibu, California.
	Jerry Goldsmith	SP 8"x10"	Prolific American composer (1929-2004) best known for his music for such films as Poltergeist, Chinatown, Planet of the Apes, Alien, The Omen, and many of the Star Trek movies.
	Adolph Green	Index Card 3"x5"	American lyricist and playwright (1914-2004) who, along with Betty Comden produced such hits as On the Town, and the screenplay for Singin' In the Rain.
	Marvin Hamlisch	SP 5"x8"	Prolific composer of such hits as The Way We Were, Surprise Surprise, and the film scores for The Sting, Funny Lady, Sophie's Choice, A Chorus Line and The Prisoner of Second Avenue.
	Herbie Hancock	SP 5"x8"	Jazz pianist and composer, born in 1940. His band, The Headhunters, was a popular group throughout the 1970s. Hancock continues to produce CDs. He is a Buddhist.
	Daniel Hege	SP 5"x8"	In his seventh season as Music Director for the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. He has guest conducted many of the great symphony orchestras around the country including Baltimore, Denver and Detroit.
	Jerry Herman	SP 5"x7"	Jerry Herman, born in 1931, is an American composer best known for his scores for the Broadway musicals Hello Dolly, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. In 2009, Herman received the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
	Maris Jansson	SP 5"x8"	World-class conductor of many of the major symphony orchestras.
	Neeme Jarve	SP 5"x8"	Neeme Järvi, born in 1937, is an Estonian-born conductor. He is presently Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
	Jeffrey Kahane	SP 5"x8"	Born in Los Angeles in 1956, Kahane is presently the Music Director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.
	Ramsey Lewis	SP 5"x8"	American jazz pianist, born in Chicago in 1937. Best known for his hits The In Crowd, Wadin' In the Water, and Hang On Sloopy.
	Andrew Litton	SP 5"x7"	In his twelfth season as the Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
	Keith Lockhart	SP 5"x8"	Born in New York in 1951, he is in his ninth season as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra.
	Lorin Maazel	SP 5"x7"	Music Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Debuted at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival in 1960. Has conducted a staggering number of symphonies and operas, recorded several albums and CDs and given numerous concerts as a violinist.
	Charles Mackerras	SP 5"x8"	Sir Charles Mackerras was born in 1925 in Australia. Mackerras has recently been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1993 to 1996 Mackerras was Principal Guest Conductor of the San Francisco Opera. He is now Conductor Emeritus of the Welsh National Opera.
	Sir Neville Mariner	Index Card 3"x5"	Born in 1924 in Lincoln, England, he is best known for his work as conductor at the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields.
	Branford Marsalis	SP 8"x10"	Branford Marsalis, born in 1960 in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is an American jazz and classical saxophonist. He is a member of a musical family that includes his famous brother Wynton. Branford has performed in live concerts, on CD and has made numerous TV appearances. Signed in dark part of photo.
	Tony Martin	Index Card 3"x5"	Popular crooner of the 1940s and 1950s, he made his debut as a singer in the late 1930s with the Ray Noble Orchestra. Married to singer-dancer Cyd Charisse.
	Mary McCormic	Signed Greeting Card 3"x5"	Principal singer at the Chicago Opera House, which was built specifically for her by utilities tycoon Samuel Insull, her then-lover. She later married Russian Prince Georg Mdvani. After their divorce she retired to a quiet life in Texas.
	Zubin Mehta	Index Card 3"x5"	Born in India in 1937. Has been Music Director for the Montreal Symphony, the Los Angeles Symphony and the New York Philharmonic.
	Robert Merrill	Index Card 3"x5"	American operatic baritone (1919-2004). Made countless appearances on the concert stage, television and radio. He was even sighted in a few Hollywood movies, such as Aaron Slick From Pumpkin Crick. Was once married to soprano Roberta Peters.
	Viktoria Mullova	SP 5"x7"	Viktoria Mullova is a Russian violin virtuoso, born in 1959. She is renowned not only for her striking performances of the Classics, including those of Johann Sebastian Bach and other Baroque composers, but also for her interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by composers such as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and The Beatles. She plays on the "Jules Falk" Stradavarius violin of 1723.
	Seiji Ozawa	SP 5"x7"	American conductor, born in 1935 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China. Besides his concerts throughout the year with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he conducts the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic on a regular basis, and appears also with the New Japan Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Orchestre National de France, and La Scala in Milan.
	Roberta Peters	Index Card 3"x5"	American opera singer, born in 1930 in New York. Has performed at all the major opera houses and was a staple at the Met for years. Made a record 65 appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s and 1960s.
	Jean-Luc Ponti	SP 5"x8"	French-born jazz violinist. Born in 1942 in Avranches, France. He has made several CDs and appeared on the concert stage worldwide.
	Billy Preston	SP 8"x10"	Soul musician from Texas, born in 1946. Best known for his work with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Jackson 5. Wrote the song You Are So Beautiful. Was the first musical guest on Saturday Night Live in 1975. Preston died in June, 2006.
	Cleo Parker Robinson	SP 5"x8"	Inspirational dance teacher and performer. Founder of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company.
	Mstilav Rostropovich	SP 5"x8"	Internationally acclaimed cellist and conductor. Began his recording career in the 1950s. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1927. Studied at the Central Music School in Moscow, and then the Moscow Conservatoire. He has conducted many of the world's greatest orchestras, and CDs of his cello music are still in great demand. He died in April, 2007.
	Esa-Pekka Salonen	SP 5"x8"	Esa-Pekka Salonen, born in 1958 in Finland, is an orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently conductor and music director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
	Gunther Schuller	Index Card 3"x5"	Dr. Schuller is a composer, conductor, teacher, author, and music publisher, born in New York in 1925.
	Renata Scotto	Index Card 3"x5"	Italian opera singer who made her debut in 1952 as Violetta in La traviata. She had a brilliant career at La Scala Opera, and from 1965 until 1987 she was a leading soprano of the Metropolitan Opera.
	Pete Seeger	Index card 3"x5"	American folk singer and political activist, born in New York in 1919. Best known for his hits Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, Turn, Turn, Turn, and If I Had a Hammer.
	Ravi Shankar	SP 5"x7"	Bengali-Indian sitar virtuoso, born in 1920. Became internationlly known in the 1960s through his association with the Beatles, when member George Harrison began experimenting with the sitar. Shankar has since become a major recording star and a music legend. He has collaborated with such musicians as Jean Pierre Rampal and Philip Glass. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his daughters Anoushka Shankar and Norah Jones are both Grammy Award winning musicians.
	George Shearing	SP 5"x7"	One of America's favorite jazz pianists. The bulk of his recordings were made in the 1950s and 1960s. The George Shearing Quintet was a staple with jazz enthusiasts everywhere.
	Beverly Sills	Index Card 3"x5"	American opera singer. Born in 1929, she worked predominantly in the 1960s and 1970s, retiring from the stage in 1980. Known to her friends as "Bubbles."
	Leonard Slatkin	Index Card 3"x5"	Leonard Slatkin is Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
	Risë Stevens	Index Card 3"x5"	American opera singer, born in New York in 1913. She was the leading mezzo-soprano at New York's Metropolitan Opera for two decades.
	Karlheinz Stockhausen	SP 6"x9"	German composer, born in 1928. Stockhausen has produced a large number of symphonic, opera and chanber works. Most of Stockhausen’s works composed up to 1970 were performed at the Expo ’70 World Fair in Osaka, Japan, for 5 hours daily, for 183 days by twenty instrumentalists and singers, thereby reaching an audience of over a million listeners.
	Yuri Temirkanov	SP 5"x7"	Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov, born in 1938, is an internationally recognized conductor. Since 1988 he has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
	Giorgio Tozzi	SP 5"x7"	Giorgio Tozzi, born in 1923, was for many years a leading bass with the Metropolitan Opera. Tozzi was the recipient of three Grammy's: in 1960 the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral for The Marriage of Figaro with Erich Leinsdorf, in 1961 the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Puccini's Turandot, with Erich Leinsdorf, and in 1963 the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for the Sir Georg Solti recording of Verdi's Aida (with Leontyne Price and Jon Vickers). He was the singing voice of Emile de Becque in the 1958 film version of South Pacific (Rossano Brazzi acted the role onscreen). In 1980 Tozzi earned a Tony award nomination for best leading actor in a musical for his work as Tony in The Most Happy Fella. Tozzi worked extensively as an educator in professorships at The Juilliard School, Brigham Young University, and Indiana University. In 2006 he retired as Distinguished Professor of Voice at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana.
	Tamas Vasary	SP 5"x8"	Pianist and conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
	Andre Watts	Index Card 3"x5"	American concert pianist. Leonard Bernstein chose him to make his debut with the New York Philharmonic in their Young People's Concerts, broadcast nationwide on CBS-TV. He has had a long association with television, having appeared on PBS, the BBC and the Arts and Entertainment Network.
	Franz Welser-Most	SP 5"x8"	American-born conductor and Music Director of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.
	John Williams	Index Card 3"x5"	American composer best known for his music for the film Star Wars (1977). He has written the music for some of the highest-grossing films of the last thirty years, including Superman, Jaws, E.T., and the first three Harry Potter movies.