BREAKING NEWS. ART VAN DAMME DIES - USA by is sad to report that accordion jazz legend died on February 15, 2010. He was 89 years old.

Art had been ill with pneumonia for several weeks., born April 9, 1920 in Norway, Michigan, was a world renowned jazz accordionist and one of the most famous accordionists of all time. Began playing the accordion at age nine and started classical study when his family moved to Chicago in 1934. In 1941 he joined Ben Bernie's band as an accordionist.

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He adapted Benny Goodman's music to the accordion. From 1945 to 1960 he worked for NBC, performing on The Dinah Shore Show, Tonight, The Dave Garroway Show and other radio and TV shows with Garroway. He recorded 130 episodes of the 15-minute The Show for NBC Radio. Van Damme toured Europe and was also popular with jazz listeners in Japan and regularly won the domestic Downbeat reader's poll for his instrument.

He also toured in Russia and New Zealand. Had three children and six grandchildren. Although he had retired to Florida, he continued to perform nearly to the age of 90. You can read his 2005 Celebrity Interview by clicking on his name. A nice article about his 2005 tour to Rostov-on-Don, Russia, is online too Information about the funeral of Viewing: Friday, February 19, 2010 3-5pm/7-9pm Cochrane’s Chapel Of The Roses 103 Lincoln Street Roseville, California 95678 Phone: (916) 783-7171 Funeral Mass: Saturday, February 20, 2010 10am St. Clare’s Catholic Church 1950 Junction Blvd_Roseville, CA 95747 Phone: (916)772-4717. Prokofiev’s Revolution ‘Cantata’ Performance, Birmingham – UK by Roland Williams Photo, Left to Right: Martynas Levickis, Rafal Luc, Conductor Valery Gergiev, Ksenija Sidorova, Amadej Herzog and Trang Nguyen On October 14/15th 2009, during a visit to the UK, the Chorus of the famous Mariinsky Theatre gave two splendid performances of Prokofiev’s ‘Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution’.

They performed with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Asus zenui pc suite. Prokofiev’s ‘Cantata’ is an extraordinary work of musical theatre and of huge proportions in the musical forces it employs. It uses an extended orchestra and choir, a brass band and an accordion band. A most interesting historical background to this work and a review of the concerts is online: From the accordionist’s point of view the work (written in the mid-1930s) is of obvious interest as it is probably one of the first large orchestral and choral works to include an accordion band or significant part for a group of accordions. Further information online at.

‘Harry Hussey meets Ken Astin’, Stockport – UK by Stockport Accordion Club’s concert on February 10th opened with, the show MC, playing ‘The Great Escape’/’The Longest Day’, followed by variations on Rabbie Burns’ ‘A Man’s A Man’, on his FR7. SAC President Johnny Coleclough then took over, performing an extended spot on his customised Cordovox. His numbers included ‘Under Paris Skies’, ‘The Dark Island’, and a Gershwin medley. The guest artistes, Harry Hussey and Ken Astin, performed two great sets.