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Warren Martin (1916-1982)

Warren Brownell Martin was born in 1916 on a farm near Galeton in north central Pennsylvania. As a child he played the piano and violin and began composing. He once said that by age seven he realized that music would be the most important thing in his life.

Matriculating at Westminster Choir College at age 15, he was a student there until 1938, earning his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. His major teachers included Paul Boepple, Roy Harris, David Hugh Jones, and Carl Weinrich. He was a member of the bass section of Westminster Choir for its 1934 Russian tour. As a student he was organist at several churches, principally the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton.

After graduation he became organist of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, at that time the largest church of its denomination. During World War II he served in the United States Army, seeing active duty in France. After the war he returned to the Los Angeles church as Minister of Music, becoming one of the most sought-after organ recitalists on the West Coast. In 1948 he became Director of Music at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel of the University of Chicago.

In 1950 he returned to Princeton to join the Westminster faculty, where he served until his final illness in December 1981. In his long and versatile career, he served variously as Head of the Graduate Department, Musical Director, conductor of Symphonic and Westminster Choir, Head of the Theory Department, and outstanding teacher of an extraordinary variety of music subjects to countless Westminster students. Beyond his regular teaching he functioned actively as an exacting and insightful musical coach and accompanist to numerous students as well as colleagues.

Dr. Williamson, founder of the College, called him “a near genius.”

He called himself “a jack of all musical trades.” Although his choral arrangement of “Great Day” is probably his most performed composition, he himself

Arvo Pärt is one of those composers in the world, whose creative output has significantly changed the way we understand the nature of music. In 1976, he created a unique musical language called tintinnabuli, that has reached a vast audience of various listeners and that has defined his work right up to today. There is no compositional school that follows Pärt, nor does he teach, nevertheless, a large part of the contemporary music has been influenced by his tintinnabuli compositions.

Childhood and studies

Arvo Pärt was born on 11 September 1935 in Paide, where he also spent his first years. In 1938, the Pärt family moved to Rakvere, where he began to study piano at Rakvere Music School under Ille Martin. Having graduated from Rakvere Secondary School No 1 (1954), he continued studying music at the Tallinn Music School under Veljo Tormis. His studies were interrupted by mandatory military service in the Soviet Army (1954–1956), after which, in 1957, he continued at the Tallinn State Conservatoire under Heino Eller graduating in 1963. Several works composed during his student years still belong to the official list of his compositions: two sonatinas (1958–1959) and partita (1958) for piano, and orchestral works such as Nekrolog (1960), Perpetuum mobile (1963) and Symphony No. 1 (1963).

Early period (1958–1968)

Pärt worked as a sound engineer at the Estonian Radio from 1958 to 1967. Those were also the years of his early modernist compositions. Estonian music in the 1960s was shaped by an entire generation of innovative composers with a modern approach – although a few years older, besides Pärt there were Eino Tamberg, Veljo Tormis, Jaan Rääts and their junior follower Kuldar Sink. Almost simultaneously through their music all the most important styles and compositional techniques of the 20th century were introduced to Estonian music: neoclassicism, dodecaphony, serialism, sonorism, collage technique a

American civil rights leader (1929–1968)

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Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.

A black church leader, King participated in and led marches for the right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights. He oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As president of the SCLC, he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize some of the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and helped organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches during the 1965 Selma voting