Performers Index ~ W
Waal, Rian de ( - )P
Waart, Edo de (1 JUN - )Dutch=Con
Wachter, Eberhard (AY ber hart VECH ter)
Wagner, Roger (ROH ger WAG ner)( - )=Choral con
Walcha, Herbert (VAHL shah) (27 OCT - )Ger=Org
Waite, Claudia (San Mateo, - )Am=Sop, MET 1998-9
Walker, Alfred (New Orleans, - ) Am=Bass, MET 1998
Walker, N (24 NOV - )Eng=Bass
Walker, P (12 OCT - )Eng=MezSop
Walker, Sarah (11 MAR - )Eng=MezSop
Wallace, I (10 JUL - )Scot-Bass
Wallace, J (14 APR - )Scot-Trumpet
Wallenstein, Alfred (WALL in styn) ( 1898-1983 )AM=cellist-con
Wallez, Jean-Pierre (zhahn pee air vah LAY) ( - )Fr=com-cond.
Wallfisch, Ernst (ernst VAHL fish)(27 MAY - )Ger-Am Violist
Wallfisch, Raphael (rah fy EL WALL kish) (15 JUN - )Eng=Cel
Walmsley-Clark, P (19 FEB - )Eng=Sop
Walter, Bruno (BROO hoh VAHL ter)(15 SEP - )Ger=Con
Walther, Hans-Jurgen (hahns YER gun VAHL ter) ( - )Con
Wand, Gunther (GOON ter VAHND) (Eberfeld, 7 JAN 1912 - 14 JAN 2002)Ger=Con Photo
Warchal, Bohdan(bohk dahn VAHR khahl) ( - )Con
WARFIELD, William (Baritone Known for 'Porgy,').
Performed theater works and oratorios. He was best known for his role of Porgy in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. He was born in West Helena, Arkansas 22 JAN 1920. He died in Chicago. ~ age 82. NY Times Obituary. Porgy & Bess: High Performance
Warren, Leonard (21 APR
1911 - 4 MAR 1960)
Basso
Warren-Green, Christopher (30 JUL - )Eng=V-Con
Washburn, Nan
( - )=Con
Wasinger, Tom AM=VOC=G
Wasinger, Susan AM=VOC=G
Watkinson, C (19 MAR - )Eng=MezSop
Watson, L (4 DEC - )Eng=Sop
Nathaniel Watson, Baritone
Watts, Andre (20 JUN - )Am=P
Watts, H (7 DEC - )Eng=Contralto
WAVERLY
CONSORT, known for its' performances of works from England's
golden age of music, the true Renaissance period c1585-1623. Composer's
like Holborne, Weelkes and Byrd. Michael Jaffe, Dir.
Webber, Julian Lloyd ( - )Eng=Cel (Lloyd-Webber)
Wegner, John (Heborn, Germany - )Baritone. MET debut 1999-2000
Weingarten, Carl ( 17
JUL - )AM=G-Comp
Wei,
Sun Xiu (shway way) (Liao Ning, - ) Chinese Soprano. MET debut 1999-2000
Weigle, Jorg-Peter (yerg PAY ter VY gul) ( - )Ger=con
Weikl, Bernard (BERN hardt VY kuhl) (29 JUL - )Austrian=Bar
Weil, Bruno ( - )Ger=Cond
HREF="http://rozannamusic.com">Weinberger, Rozanna ( - )violist
Weingartner, Felix (VINE gart ner) ( - )Ger=con
Weir, Gillian (JIl ee in WEE r) ( - )
Gillian (17 JAN - )Australian=Org
Weissenberg,
Alexis (uh LEK es WHY sen berg) (26 JUN - )Bulgarian-Fr=P
Welch, Jennifer (Ahoskie, NC - )Am=Sop. MET 1998-9
Welch, Jonathan (Kankakee, IL - )Am=Ten, MET 1994
Welcha, Helmut (HEL' moot Vool kah)
Welitch, Ljuba (LOO bah VAY lik) ( - )Sop
Weller, Walter (VAHL ter VELL er) (30 NOV - )Austrian=Con-V
Wells, Jeffrey (Baton-Rouge, LA - )Am=Bass-Bar, MET 1988
HREF="http://www.emiclassics.com/artists/biogs/welb.html">
Welser-Most,
Franz (Linz, 16 AUG 1960 - )Austrian=Con
Welsh, M (1 MAR - )Eng=Cel
West, Charles ( - )Am=Cl
West, Stephen (Old Forge, NY - )Am=Bass-Bar, MET 1995
West, Zachary (10 OCT 1948 - ) NYC=G=Mandolin=COMP
Westerberg, Stig (sch teeg VEST' tair bairg) ( - )Ger=con
Westerfield, Richard ( - )Am=Con [See
Harrisburg, PA Sym Orch)
WESTMINSTER (WEST min ster) Cathedral, England)
White, Wendy (Chicago, IL - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1989
White, Willard (Kingston, Jamaica - )Baritone. MET debut 1999-2000
Wicks, Dennis ( 6 OCT 1928 - 11 JUN 2003)Eng-Bass
Wigglesworth, Mark (19 JUL - )Eng=Cond
Wilbraham, John (15 APR 1944 - obit 5
APR 1998)Eng=Trumpet
Wild, Earl (26
NOV 1915 - )AM=P
Wilde, D (25 FEB - )Eng=P
Wilkens, Christopher ( - )Am=Con [See San Antonio Sym Orch]
Willcocks, Sir David (30 DEC - )Eng=Con-Org
Williams,
John (24 APR - )Australian=G
Williams, John Towner (8 FEB - )Am=P-Con-Com (Boston Pops)
Williams, Sioned (SHAW nid WILL yums) (1 JUL - )Welsh=Harp
Wills, A (19 SEP - )Eng=Con-Org-Com
Wilson-Johnson, D (15 Oct - )Eng=Bar
Wilson, Tim (Greeley, CO - )Am=Ten, MET 1998-9
Winbergh, Gosta (Stockholm, - )Swed.=Ten, MET 1983
WINCHESTER (WIN chester) Cathedral
Windgasen, Wolfgang (volf GAHNG vint GAHS SEN)( - )Ger
Windsbacher Knabenchor
Windsbacher Boys Choir
WINDSOR, Lorna sop
Winschermann, Helmutt (HELL moot VIN sher mahnn) ( - )Ger=con
Wittgenstein,
Paul (VIT en shtine) (5 NOV - )Austrian=P
Wixell, Ingvar (ING vahr VIK suhl) ( - )Sw
Wnukowski, Daniel Pianist
Woldike, Mogens (moh gins vol DEE kee) (Copenhagen, 5 JUL 1897 - Copenhagen, 20 OCT 1988)Danish=con
(Vienna State Opera 1955)
Wolff, Caroline ( - ) =Va
Wolff, Hugh (13 MAR - )Am=Con
Wolson, Chon ( - )Jpn=Sop
Wong, Francis ( - )=Bar
Wood, Ali (Brisbane, 1980 - )AUSTRALIAN=Pianist
Wood, Sir Henry (3 MAR - )Eng=Con
Woodward, Roger (20 DEC 1942 - )AUSTRALIAN=Pianist
Wordsworth, Barry (20 FEB - )Eng=Con
WROCLAW(vrawt swaf) In 1741
Frederick II the Great of Prussia changed
its name to Breslau.
POLAND (Breslau)
Wright, Searle (1918 - ) Organist, Binghamton NY-First Cong. Church
Wunderlich,
Fritz (VOON dehr
likh)(aka, Friedrich Karl Otto) (Kusel, 26 SEP 1930 - Heidelberg, 17 SEP
1966; accident)Ger=Ten
WURTTEMBERGISCHES KAMMERORCHESTER - (VUR tuhm behrg) (Wurttemberg
Chamber Orchestra, based in Stuttgart, Germany. Today's
'Wittenburg' about 100km south of Berlin is 700km east of
the former Wuerttemberg which now borders France and
Switzerland is is part of today's land Baden-Wuerttemberg
with Stuttgart as its' capital.
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