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Neville Brothers, the.American rhythm and blues and rock performers. The brothers include Art (Arthur Lanon Neville; b New Orleans, 17 Dec 1937; keyboards and vocals), Charles (b New Orleans, 28 Dec 1938; saxophone and flute), Aaron (b New Orleans, 24 Jan 1941; keyboards and vocals) and Cyril (b New Orleans, 10 Jan 1948; vocals). Art was the leader of the vocal group the Hawketts who produced Mardi Gras Mambo, which was a minor rhythm and blues hit in 1954 and has since become associated with the New Orleans mardi gras festival. Aaron found minor success with Over You (1960) but had a major hit with the rhythm and blues ballad Tell it like it is (1966), which featured his sweetly melismatic tenor and falsetto sound. Art had also formed the influential funk band, the Meters, which worked with the producer Allen Toussaint, recording instrumental dance songs such as Cissy Strut (1969), and accompanying hits such as Dr John's Right Place, Wrong Time (1973) and La Belle's Lady Marmalade (1975); it also became a major influence on white funk groups such as Little Feat and on Jamaican reggae performers. Before the Meters disbanded in 1977, the other brothers joined the group to accompany George and Amos Landry on The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1976), a recreation of mardi gras ceremonial music. In 1978 the brothers regrouped under their own name and released a series of eclectic albums that incorporated disco influences, rock ballads, calypso and reggae rhythms, and blues-rock, along with their by-now trademark New Orleans funk sound. With the exception of Aaron's collaborations with Linda Ronstadt (Don't Know Much, 1989, and All My Life, 1990) and his solo hit record, Everybody plays the fool (1991), the Neville Brothers have never gained mainstream popular success; they have remained favourites of the ‘roots’ rock audience. BIBLIOGRAPHYL. Winner: ‘The Sound of New Orleans’, The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, ed. A. De Curtis and others (New York, 1992), 37–47 D. Snowden: disc notes, The Very Best of the Neville Brothers Rhino R2 72626 (1997) DAVID BRACKETT Nevin, [Dale] Arthur (Finley)(b Edgeworth, PA 27 April 1871; d Sewickley, PA., 10 July 1943). American composer, conductor and ethnomusicologist, brother of Ethelbert Nevin. After early musical instruction from his father, an amateur composer and biographer of Stephen Foster, he studied at the New England Conservatory (1889–93). In 1893 he travelled to Europe, where his teachers included Karl Klindworth (piano), and O.B. Boise and Engelbert Humperdinck (composition). Upon his return to the USA in 1897 he taught, composed (often using the pseudonym Arthur Dale) and conducted concerts of his own works. During the summers of 1902 and 1903 Nevin lived among the Blackfoot Indians of Montana, documenting folklore and transcribing music. His study of Amerindian culture resulted in the composition of the opera Poia. In 1907, on an invitation from President Theodore Roosevelt, he presented an illustrated lecture on the work at the White House. Although an American production was not staged, Poia was performed at the Royal Opera, Berlin in 1910, the first American opera to be produced in a European court theatre. After dividing his time between composing and conducting at the MacDowell Colony, Nevin joined the music department at the University of Kansas, Lawrence in 1915. During World War I he directed choirs and bands at Camp Grant, Illinois. In 1920 he was appointed director of municipal music and drama in Memphis, where he also conducted the symphony orchestra. He moved to New York in 1922. The last 20 years of his life were spent in declining health. Although Nevin’s compositional style grows out of the salon music of the latter 19th century, his earliest works are characterized by an expansiveness that challenges the predictability of that tradition. His fusion of standard forms and freely tonal harmonies often projects an Impressionistic style. His instrumental works are almost exclusively programmatic.
BIBLIOGRAPHY‘Explains Berlin’s Attack upon Poia’, Musical America, xii/2 (1910) 25 only [interview] A. Nevin: ‘Two Summers with the Blackfeet Indians of Montana’, MQ, ii (1916), 257–70 N. Slonimsky: ‘Musical Oddities’, The Etude. lxxiii (1955), 4 only JOHN C. FRANCIS Yüklə 10,2 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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