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One of the most iconic of these episodes explores the American civil rights movement of the twentieth century, where a fearless campaign led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr fought for equal rights for black Americans in civil society at a time of segregation and oppression. Songs such as African American spirituals, church gospel music, jazz and blues played a huge role in the fight for equal rights, and were at different times used for motivation, celebration or mourning in the turbulence of their struggle. The arranger of This little light of mine, Strange fruit and If I can help somebody, Stacey V Gibbs (b1962), grew up in the USA when the civil rights movement was at fever pitch in the 1960s and early 70s. This little light of mine shares a peaceful and positive message which suited perfectly the non-violent methods of of Martin Luther King and his followers. This peaceful message stood in stark contrast to the violent racism which had pervaded the south of America for centuries prior. Strange fruit is a song inspired by a widely circulated photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Indiana. The text was written by Abel Meeropol and the song made famous by Billie Holiday in the late 1930s. If I can help somebody is an old hymn, made most famous by the ‘Queen of Gospel’, Mahalia Jackson, whose singing became the soundtrack to the civil rights campaign. She sung at

The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre is 604th in the world, 224th in Europe, and 2nd in Estonia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

1. Arvo Pärt

   Born in

   Estonia

   Years

   1935-.. (age 89)

   Occupations

   musicianclassical composercomposer

   Biography

   Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. His most performed works include Fratres (1977), Spiegel im Spiegel (1978), and Für Alina (1976). From 2011 to 2018, and again in 2022, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world, and the second most performed in 2019, after John Williams. The Arvo Pärt Centre, in Laulasmaa, was opened to the public in 2018.

2. Georg Ots

   Years

   1920-1975 (aged 55)

   Occupations

   actoropera singerswimmer

   Biography

   Georg Ots was an Estonian baritone who besides opera was known as a performer of popular songs. He was on the roster of the Estonian National Opera from 1951 to his death in 1975. He gained wider recognition with the lead role in the 1958, Soviet musical film Mister Iks, based on Imre Kálmán's operetta Die Zirkusprinzessin.

3. Lembit Ulfsak

   Born in

   Estonia

   Years

   1947-2017 (aged 70)

   Enrolled in the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre

   Studied in 1970

   Occupations

   film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorfilm director

   Biography

   Lembit Ulfsak was an Estonian stage and film actor. Ulfsak starred in the 2014 film Tangerines which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at th

Our January 2023 PDF newsletter has just been published, along with a summary of those the classical music world lost in December 2022

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Here are brief details of some of the people lost to the classical music world during December 2022. May they rest in peace.

Italian pianist, musicologist and teacher Pietro Spada died on 31 December 2022, aged eighty-seven. Born in Rome on 29 July 1935 into a family with musical connections, he studied piano with Tito Aprea at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome. His teachers also included Carlo Zecchi and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. He toured internationally, appearing with many high profile conductors and orchestras, and recorded extensively. He spent time in the USA, teaching at Florida States University, Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and Indiana University in Bloomington. Back in Italy, he taught at Turin Conservatory, Rome Conservatory and Naples Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella, before leaving teaching. As a researcher, he produced a new edition of symphonies by Clementi, and published and recorded previously unedited keyboard works by composers including Paisiello, Donizetti and Field. Together with Massimo Boccaccini, he founded the Boccaccini and Spada edition which issued a large volume of previously unpublished music.

Pietro Spada (1935-2022)

Russian composer Eduard Artemyev died from complications from pneumonia in Moscow on 29 December, aged eighty-five. Born in Novosibirsk on 30 Novem