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Sunday, 4 December 2016

Robbie Robertson (Canadian musician, songwriter, film composer, producer, actor, author)

* Robbie Robertson is best known for his work as lead guitarist and primary songwriter for the Band, and for his career as a solo recording artist. His work with the Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre. Robertson has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Band, and has been inducted to Canada's Walk of Fame both with the Band and on his own.

As a film soundtrack producer and composer, Robertson is best known for his numerous collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Robertson's working relationship with Scorsese began with the influential rockumentary film The Last Waltz (1978), and continued through numerous dramatic films such as Raging Bull (1980) and Casino (1995). More at Wikipedia.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Jaime Royal Robertson, 5 July 1943, 22:25 (10:25 PM) EWT (+4), Toronto, Ontario, Canada (43n39, 79w23). ASC: 9 Aquarius. RR: B. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Testimony" by Robbie Robertson (Random House, 2016): "On July 5, 1943, at 10:25 p.m., Dolly gave birth to a healthy baby boy, nine pounds, eleven ounces, at Toronto General Hospital. She named me Jaime Royal Robertson, partially after her cousin Royal, Aunt Beatrice's son."

Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Vítězslava Kaprálová, 1915-1940 (Czech composer and conductor)

* Vítězslava Kaprálová conducted the Czech Philharmonic in 1937 and a year later the BBC Symphony Orchestra in her composition "Military Sinfonietta," to much critical acclaim. Her husband was the Czech writer Jiří Mucha, whom she married two months before she died. Despite her untimely death, allegedly from miliary tuberculosis, in Montpellier, France at the age of 25, Kaprálová created an impressive body of work. There is no doubt that, had she lived, she would have become one of the most important women composers in Europe.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 24 January 1915, 17:45 (5:45pm) CET (-1), Brno, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) (49n12, 16e37). ASC: 17 leo. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from The Kaprálová Companion by Karla Hartl (Lexington, 2011), pp. 121/140: "1915. Sunday, January 24 (6:00 p.m.)--Vítězslava Kaprálová is born in Brno . . . In a curriculum vitae of Vitezslava Kapralova, written after the composer's death by her mother, Viktorie, for the musicologist Jaroslav BuZga of the National Museum in Prague, Viktorie Kapralova mentions that her daughter was born at 6:00 pm. In her reminiscence written for a collection of texts ..., however, she indicates 5:30 p.m. as the hour of birth."

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Sunday, 9 August 2015

Steven Severin (English musician, songwriter, composer, bass guitarist)

* Steven Severin (photographed in 1986, at left) was a co-founding member of English rock band, Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976-1996), along with vocalist Siouxsie Sioux.

Known as 'Steve Havoc' when he joined the Banshees, he took the name 'Severin' from the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch character that is the subject of the Velvet Underground song "Venus in Furs."

After the split of Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1996, Severin began a solo career and created his own label RE.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Steven John Bailey, 25 September 1955, 04:00 (4 AM) BST (-1), Highgate, London, England (51n34, 0w08). ASC: 00 Virgo. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an onlne interview: "25-9-1955 4.00 a.m. LONDON (Highgate) - Sun sign Libra, Virgo rising, Moon in Capricorn."

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

John Handy (American jazz musician, singer, composer)

* John Handy is most commonly associated with the alto saxophone, although he also plays tenor and baritone saxophone, saxello, clarinet, oboe, and sings. He first came to prominence while working for Charles Mingus in the 1950s. In the 1960s, Handy led several groups, among them a quintet with Michael White, violin, Jerry Hahn, guitar, Don Thompson, bass, and Terry Clarke, drums. This group's performance at the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival was recorded and released as an album; Handy received Grammy nominations for "Spanish Lady" (jazz performance) and "If Only We Knew" (jazz composition).

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Gerre Hancock, 1934–2012 (American organist, improviser, composer)

* Gerre Hancock's compositions are published by Oxford University Press (OUP). His textbook, Improvising: How to Master the Art, also published by OUP, is studied by organists throughout the USA. In 1981 he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music and in 1995 was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. In May 2004 he was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree (Honoris causa) from The General Theological Seminary in New York. He is listed in “Who’s Who in America,” and his biography appears in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. In 2004 he was honored in a ceremony at Lambeth Palace in London where he was presented the Medal of the Cross of St. Augustine by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In June 2010, Dr. Hancock was presented the International Performer of the Year Award by the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. This is viewed by many as the most distinguished award that the American Guild of Organists bestows upon its colleagues.

Hancock has a stellium of Pisces planets ruled by Neptune in the 1st House.

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J. B. Floyd (America concert pianist, composer)

* J. B. Floyd is a concert pianist (jazz, classical, avant-garde, and the like), composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. He has long-been a professor of music, which has included Chairman of Keyboard Performance, at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Floyd is a Yamaha Artist.

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Jimmy Duncan, 1927-2011 (American songwriter, singer, composer, author)

* Jimmy Duncan is best known for his 1957 song "My Special Angel," a No.1 country/western hit for Bobby Helms. Duncan also co-wrote "String Along", which charted in 1960 for Fabian and in 1963 for Ricky Nelson; and "Everybody Knows", a minor hit in 1964 for Steve Lawrence. In the late 1960s Duncan owned a rock club in Houston named "The Living Eye"; nationally known groups such as the Electric Prunes and ? and the Mysterians played there, as well as local groups such as Lemon Fog. In 1970 Duncan built a recording studio called "Soundville" in Houston and launched his own label, Soundville.

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Monday, 23 September 2013

Euel Box (American music producer, composer, arranger, and trumpeter)

* Euel Box has written major film scores and radio jingles for major markets. For the composition of "Benji," Box and his wife earned a 1975 nomination for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award for best song.

Mercury in Capricorn rules Box's Gemini Ascendant, indicating success as a writer/composer.

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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Roger Sessions, 1896-1985 (American composer, critic, teacher of music)

* In her recently released biography of Roger Sessions, Andrea Olmstead quotes his birth certificate for a birth time of "7:00 a.m." Previously, I quoted a biography of Sessions by the same author for a birth time of "on the morning ... just in time to be welcomed by daylight."

Sessions had the Sun rising in Capricorn in the 1st house. He was one of the leading American composers of the 20th century, and he was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

His first major compositions came while he was travelling Europe with his wife in his mid-twenties and early thirties. Returning to the United States in 1933, he taught first at Princeton University (from 1936), moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1945 to 1953, and then returned to Princeton until retiring in 1965. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1961. He was appointed Bloch Professor at Berkeley (1966–67), and gave the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University in 1968–69. He continued to teach on a part-time basis at the Juilliard School from 1966 until 1983.

His works written up to 1930 or so are more or less neoclassical in style. Those written between 1930 and 1940 are more or less tonal but harmonically complex. The works from 1946 on are atonal, and beginning with the Solo Violin Sonata of 1953, serial.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: born Roger Pitkin Sessions, baptised Roger Huntington Sessions, 28 December 1896, 07:00 (7 a.m.) EST (+5), Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA (40n38, 73w56). ASC: 1 Capricorn. RR: AA (from quoted birth certificate).
SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes Andrea Olmstead, Roger Sessions: A Biography (New York: Routledge, 2012), p. 29: "According to his birth certificate, filed January 6, 1897, Roger was born at 7:00 a.m. on December 28th at 417 Washington Ave. . . . The birth certificate listed Roger's name as 'Roger Pitkin Sessions.'"
Previously Scholfield quoted Andrea Olmstead, Roger Sessions and his Music (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1985), p. 7, which states the date and place and quotes his mother's letter stating that he was born "on the morning ... just in time to be welcomed by daylight."

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Tuesday, 16 July 2013

John Jacob Niles, 1892-1980 (American balladeer)

* John Jacob Niles - called the "Dean of American Balladeers" - often accompanied himself on an Appalachian dulcimer, lute, or other plucked stringed instrument. He had both luminaries in vocalist Taurus in the airy 3rd House, ruled by plucky Venus in Gemini. "I Wonder As I Wander" is the title of one of his signature songs and of his biography. In his chart, Jupiter-the-wanderer (ruler of his Sagittarius MC) was unaspected except for a sextile to Neptune-the-wonderer which rules his Pisces Ascendant.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

John Jacob Niles (April 28, 1892 — March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer, and collector of traditional ballads. Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Joan Baez, Burl Ives, and Peter, Paul and Mary, among others, recording his songs.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: John Jacob Niles, 28 April 1892, 02:20 (2:20 a.m.) CST (+6), Louisville, Kentucky, USA (38n15, 85w45). ASC: 7 Pisces. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes Ron Pen, I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles (University Press of Kentucky, 2010), p. 18: "Just ten months after her wedding, Lula delivered her first-born son at her parents' home on 121 North Twentieth Street [in Portland, now part of Louisville, Kentucky]. On the morning of April 28, 1892, at 2:20 A.M., John Jacob Niles entered the world, crying out with a voice that would someday be characterized as the 'electrifying C# alto.'"

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Saturday, 22 June 2013

Carlisle Floyd (American opera composer)

* Carlisle Floyd's Susannah (1955) ― one of the most performed American operas (second to Porgy and Bess) ― contains many feminist themes. Floyd has an operatic conjunction of Mars-Uranus in Pisces squaring the feminist-oriented Moon in vocal Gemini which rules his Equal 5th House of drama.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Carlisle Floyd (born June 11, 1926, in Latta, South Carolina) is an American opera composer. His operas include Wuthering Heights (1958), The Passion of Jonathan Wade (1962), The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair (1963), Markheim (1966), Of Mice and Men (1970), Flower and Hawk (1972), Bilby's Doll (1976), Willie Stark (1981) and Cold Sassy Tree (2000). The Houston Grand Opera has announced that a new opera by Floyd will be premiered in the coming seasons, Kynaston, after the 17th-century actor, Edward Kynaston.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Carlisle Sessions Floyd, Jr., 11 June 1926, 00:05 (12:05 a.m.) EST (+5), Latta, South Carolina, USA (34n20, 79w25). ASC: 8 Pisces. RR: AA (from family records quoted in an authorized biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Thomas Holliday, Falling Up: The Days and Nights of Carlisle Floyd: The Authorized Biography (Syracuse University Press, 2013), p. 1: "The clock's hands pass midnight, and the calendar turns to June 11, 1926. . . . South Carolina's late Spring . . . on Latta's Marion Street . . . The esteemed Dr. Henry Arthur Edwards [in attendance] . . . At 12:05 a.m., [his father] Jack becomes Carlisle Sessions Floyd Senior, the child named like his daddy. . . . The South in general, and [his mother] Ida Fenegan Floyd in particular, kept 'baby books' that recorded details of a child's emergence and early expressions. . . just six and a quarter pounds at birth."

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Friday, 5 April 2013

Paolo Tosti, 1846–1916 (composer, music teacher)

* Italian-British composer, Sir Paolo Tosti, born at "four in the monring," had melodic Venus in Pisces on his Ascendant.

Sir Paolo Tosti (April 9, 1846 – December 2, 1916) was an Italian, later British, composer and music teacher.

Tosti is remembered for his light, expressive songs, which are characterized by natural, singable melodies and sweet sentimentality. He is also known for his editions of Italian folk songs entitled "Canti popolari Abruzzesi".

His style became very popular during the Belle Époque and is often known as salon music. His most famous works are Serenata (lyrics: Cesareo), Good-bye! (lyrics: George J. Whyte-Melville) which is sometimes performed in Italian as Addio (lyrics: Rizzelli), and the popular Neapolitan song, Marechiare, the lyrics of which are by the prominent Neapolitan dialect poet, Salvatore Di Giacomo. Malia, Ancora and Non t'amo piu were and remain popular concert pieces.

Tosti wrote well for the voice, allowing, indeed encouraging, interpretation and embellishment from operatic singers. Most artists, therefore, specializing in the classical Italian repertoire have performed and recorded Tosti songs; yet Tosti never composed opera. Notable examples on record include Alessandro Moreschi (the only castrato who ever recorded) singing "Ideale", Mattia Battistini singing "Ancora", Nellie Melba singing "Mattinata" and Jussi Björling singing "L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra"

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

"Tosti is remembered for his light, expressive songs, which are characterized by natural, singable melodies and sweet sentimentality." Sounds like melodic Venus in sentimental Pisces very close to the Ascendant in the expressive 1st House!

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 9 April 1846, 04:00 (4:00 a.m.) LMT (-0:57:36), Ortona, Italy (42n21, 14e24). ASC: 7 Pisces. RR=AA (birth certificate quoted in a biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Francesco Sanvitale and Andreina Manzo, Francesco Paolo Tosti, 1846-1916: The Song of a Life (Ashgate, 2004), p. 1: "Francesco Paolo Tosti was born at four in the morning on 9 April 1846 in his father Giuseppe's house, in the main square of Ortona, a small town in the province of Chieti, on the Adriatic coast in central Italy."

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Thursday, 21 March 2013

Fanny Mendelssohn / Hensel (New Astrology data and chart)

* According to a biographer, Fanny Mendelssohn was born at 6:30 in the morning of the very day of Napoleon's triumphant entry into Vienna.

Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny [Cäcilie] Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. She was the grandmother of the philosopher Paul Hensel and the mathematician Kurt Hensel.

Fanny Mendelssohn composed over 460 pieces of music. Her compositions include a piano trio and several books of solo piano pieces and songs. A number of her songs were originally published under Felix's name in his opus 8 and 9 collections. Her piano works are often in the manner of songs, and many carry the name Lied ohne Worte (Song without Words). This style (and title) of piano music was most successfully developed by Felix Mendelssohn, though some modern scholars assert that Fanny may have preceded him in the genre.

She also wrote, amongst other works for the piano, a cycle of pieces depicting the months of the year, Das Jahr ("The Year"). The music was written on coloured sheets of paper, and illustrated by her husband Wilhelm . Each piece was also accompanied by a short poem.

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Charles-Marie Widor: Composer (New Astrology data and chart)

* Charles-Marie Widor's birth record is transcribed and translated in a comprehensive biography by John R. Near.

Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (21 February 1844 – 12 March 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher.

Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889. The French organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, reviver of the art of organ building, was a friend of the Widor family; he arranged for the talented young organist to study in Brussels in 1863 with Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens for organ technique and with the elderly François-Joseph Fétis, director of the Brussels Conservatoire, for composition. After this term of study Widor moved to Paris, where he would make his home for the rest of his life. At the age of 24 he was appointed assistant to Camille Saint-Saëns at Église de la Madeleine.

In January 1870, with the combined lobbying of Cavaillé-Coll, Saint-Saëns, and Charles Gounod, the 25-year-old Widor was appointed as "provisional" organist of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, the most prominent position for a French organist. The organ at St-Sulpice was Cavaillé-Coll's masterwork; the instrument's spectacular capabilities proved an inspiration to Widor. Despite his job's ostensibly "provisional" nature, Widor remained as organist at St-Sulpice for nearly 64 years, until the end of 1933. He was succeeded in 1934 by his former student and assistant, Marcel Dupré.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

Widor was of one of France's most distinguished musicians. His Pisces Sun is the focal planet in a distinctive Boomerang pattern.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, 21 February 1844, 14:00 (2 p.m.), Lyon, France (45n45, 04e61). ASC: 22 Cancer. RR=AA (transcribed and translated birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes John R. Near, Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata (University of Rochester Press, 2011), p. 6, according to "the records of the Lyon Municipal Archives, entry number 700," 22 February 1844, "an infant male born yesterday, at two o'clock in the afternoon . . . given the first names Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert." Same data in John Richard Near's book, Symphonie II (A-R Editions, 1991), p. xxiv: "The composer's birth certificate, located by the editor in 1982, shows that Widor was born around 2 p.m. on 21 February 1844."

Maurice Duruflé (Astrology data and chart)

* James E. Frazier's comprehensive biography of Maurice Duruflé cites the organist and composer's birth records.

Maurice Duruflé (11 January 1902 – 16 June 1986) was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue.

Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling. At age 17, upon moving to Paris, he took private organ lessons with Charles Tournemire, whom he assisted at Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris until 1927. In 1920 Duruflé entered the Conservatoire de Paris, eventually graduating with first prizes in organ, harmony, piano accompaniment, and composition. His harmony professor was Jean Gallon.

In 1927, Louis Vierne nominated him as his assistant at Notre-Dame. Duruflé became titular organist of St-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris in 1929, a position he held for the rest of his life. In 1936, he won the Prix Blumenthal. In 1939, he premiered Francis Poulenc's Organ Concerto (the Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor); he had advised Poulenc on the registrations of the organ part. In 1943 he became Professor of Harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he worked until 1970.

In 1947 he completed probably the most famous of his few pieces: the Requiem op. 9, for soloists, choir, organ, and orchestra. He had begun composing the work in 1941, following a commission from the Vichy regime. Also in 1947, Marie-Madeleine Chevalier became his assistant at St-Étienne-du-Mont. They married on 15 September 1953. (Duruflé's first marriage to Lucette Bousquet, contracted in 1932, ended in civil divorce in 1947 and was declared null by the Vatican on 23 June 1953.) The couple became a famous and popular organ duo, going on tour together several times throughout the sixties and early seventies.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

The 'professor of harmony' had Eris quincunx his Libra MC.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Maurice-Gustave Durufle, 11 January 1902, 06:15 (6:15 a.m.) (-0:09:20), Louviers, France (49n13, 01,e10). ASC: 23 Sagittarius. RR=AA (quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes James E. Frazier, Maurice Duruflé: The Man & His Music (University of Rochester Press, 2007), p. 9: "On January 11, 1902, the mayor of Louviers penned the first formal account of the birth of Maurice-Gustave Durufle in a florid narrative for the town's civil records, reporting that he was born at 6:15 in the morning to Julien-Charles-Amedee Durufle and Marie-Mathilde Prevost."

Sunday, 17 March 2013

R.D. Burman, a.k.a. Pancham (New Astrology data and chart)

* We can calculate Bollywood-composer R.D. Burman's birth data from the Charubel & Sepharial Ascendant degree given in his biography.

Rahul Dev Burman (27 June 1939 – 4 January 1994) was an Indian film score composer, who is considered one of the seminal music directors of the Indian film industry. Nicknamed Pancham da, he was the only son of the illustrious composer Sachin Dev Burman.

From the 1960s to the 1990s, RD Burman composed scores for 331 movies. He was mainly active in the Hindi film industry (Bollywood) as a composer, and also provided vocals for a few of compositions. RD Burman did major work with Asha Bhosle (his wife) and Kishore Kumar, and scored many of the songs that made these singers famous. He served as an influence to the next generation of Indian music directors, and his songs continue to be popular in India even after his death.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

R. D. Burman has been called the "Pied Piper of Hindi film music." The ruler of his MC, Venus in Gemini (the woodwind sign?), is all but unaspected, except for a square aspect from musical Neptune.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 27 June 1939, 08:10 (8:10 a.m.), Kolkata, India (22n32, 88e22). ASC: 11 Leo. RR=B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) calculates the data from the Charubel & Sepharial Ascendant degree of 11-12 Leo ("A fine white bull, grazing in the shade . . .") stated as that of Burman's natal chart in Anirudha Bhattacharjee & Balaji Vittal's book, R. D. Burman: The Man, The Music (New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2011).

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