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Artist
Michael Sahl
12+ albums
experimentalcomposerabstractmodern classicalcontemporary classical
about
Michael Sahl: "My father's father was born, the son of a cab driver in Liepaia (Libau) in Latvia in the 1880's, and was apprenticed to a shoemaker as a teenager. After the man either attempted to rape or actually raped him (according to my aunt) he ran away, and eventually joined his older brothers in America, i.e. Boston. He (and his wife and his six children) were poor, and shamefully so, from my mother's point of view, but Carl remained an individualist and a supporter of the "American dream" to the end of his days, a warmth he did not have for the Jewish religion. My father had from his youth a musicality and an ability to sing. He would buy the sheet music at a newsstand and learn the words by heart. He learned to read music, but not with any ease. However, he had a mellow baritone that could melt people's hearts when he sang the Irish songs, the Jewish songs, and opera arias, thus "covering" the immigrant audience of his time. But atypically for a singer, he had a lively curiosity and "always has his head buried in a book" according to his five sisters. This bookishness led him, as a young man to join a temple in Boston, and in that temple, to take part in a play. The play was being coached by my mother. My mother's mother was born in St Petersburg Russia, and her father apparently made cutlery, including surgical instruments, for the Czar's doctor or doctors. This resulted, under the relaxed reign of Alexander III, in certain Jewish families, provided they had a demo
top songs
albums
Tropes On The Salve Regina
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Tango Project/Tango Collection
Yvar Mikháshoff's Incitation To Desire
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Exiles' Cafe
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The Tango Project
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Michael Sahl/J. K. Randall split release
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Civilization and its Discontents
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Piano Music - Nancarrow / Bolcom / Carter, E. / Sahl, M. / Hemphill / Adams, J. / Foss / Rzewski / Wuorinen / Picker / Harbison
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Hesitation-Tango (Tango Collection 1890 - 2005)
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Blood Sucking Freaks
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Tango Project [Tango Collection]
A Mitzvah For The Dead For Violin And Tape / Lyric Variations For Violin And Computer