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Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante (16 September 1795 - 17 December 1870) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. Born in Altamura, near Bari (Apulia), Mercadante studied music in Naples and at first showed an interest in instrumental composition. The encouragement of Rossini led him to compose for the opera, where he won considerable success with his seventh such work (Elisa e Claudio), in 1821. He worked for a time in Vienna, in Madrid, in Cadiz, and in Lisbon, but re-established himself in Italy in 1831. He was invited by Rossini to Paris in 1836, where he composed I Briganti for...

Carla Bozulich is best known as the singer from LA-based band The Geraldine Fibbers and as the woman who re-made Willie Nelson’s 'Red Headed Stranger' — with Willie Nelson as a special guest. Carla has one of the most unique voices in any genre. Her work is at once brutally raw and weirdly visionary. Born in New York City, she grew up a tomboy and girl protector in San Pedro, CA. Carla’s first appearance on record is Gary Kail’s album from 1982 called Zurich 1916, on which she does dada-inspired worldplay, “you know, telephone and vacuum cleaner stuff”. She sang...

José Evangelista (born 1943, Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish composer, who moved to Montréal, Canada, in 1970. There he studied composition with André Prévost and Bruce Mahler. His works composed after 1982 are characterized by monodic writing, that is without the use of harmony or counterpoint. This feature often gives his compositions a ritual quality and a non-western, more Asian flavour. His probably most well-known work is Ô Bali (1988), inspired by Balinese gamelan music. Other works include Clos de Vie (1983), a memorial piece for Canadian composer Claude Vivier, Piano Concertant for piano and orchestra (1987) and Monodías Españolas...