Culkin was promoting the debut of his New York-based, pizza-themed comedy rock band The Pizza Underground. Their tour began in Brooklyn on January 24, 2014. In late May 2014, Culkin stormed off stage at Rock City during his kazoo solo after fans began booing and throwing pints of beer at the band. They subsequently cancelled the remaining UK shows, though they claimed the cancellation had nothing to do with the Rock City performance. On July 10, 2016, Culkin announced that The Pizza Underground was splitting up and their next album would be the last.
2010–2016: Musical and other artistic endeavors
Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Culkin | 2010–2016: Musical and other artistic endeavors
Yes, had a New York-based, pizza-themed comedy rock band "The Pizza Underground" No, he was featured in musician Adam Green's experimental film "The Wrong Ferarri", which was entirely shot on an iPhone. Yes, he had a rock band called The Pizza Underground. Culkin was featured in musician Adam Green's experimental film "The Wrong Ferarri".
where does kevins family go in home alone
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Paris, France
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who are the characters in the film?
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Kevin, Harry Lyme and Marvin "Marv" Merchants, Peter, Kate, Buzz, Jeff, Megan, Linnie
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was the film accused of copying?
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Yes, accused for copying 1989 French film "3615 code Père Noël"
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how many sequels does the english film have?
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Five
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does the first character mentioned above appear in all of them?
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No, only first two
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who played that role?
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Macaulay Culkin
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did he write any book?
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Yes, novel titled "Junior"
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did he also dabble in music?
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Culkin was promoting the debut of his New York-based, pizza-themed comedy rock band The Pizza Underground. Their tour began in Brooklyn on January 24, 2014. In late May 2014, Culkin stormed off stage at Rock City during his kazoo solo after fans began booing and throwing pints of beer at the band. They subsequently cancelled the remaining UK shows, though they claimed the cancellation had nothing to do with the Rock City performance. On July 10, 2016, Culkin announced that The Pizza Underground was splitting up and their next album would be the last.
Macaulay Culkin | 2010–2016: Musical and other artistic endeavors
At the height of his fame, he was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple. Culkin ranked at number two on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid-Stars" (behind Gary Coleman) and on E!'s list of the "50 Greatest Child Stars". He took a break from acting in 1994, and he made his return in 2003 with a guest appearance on the television show "Will and Grace" and a role in the film "Party Monster" (2003). He wrote an autobiographical book titled "Junior", which was published in 2006. In 2013, Culkin co-founded the New York-based, pizza-themed comedy rock band the Pizza Underground, of which he was the vocalist.
Macaulay Culkin | Introduction
In April 2011, Culkin was featured in musician Adam Green's experimental film "The Wrong Ferarri", which was entirely shot on an iPhone. In the same month, he also appeared in the music video for "Stamp Your Name On It" performed by Green's former bandmate Jack Dishel/Only Son. In September 2012, he appeared in a video on YouTube explaining how he turned his apartment in New York into a painting workshop. In December 2013, a viral video that Culkin co-produced and directed himself eating a cheese pizza was uploaded to YouTube, co-starring Phoebe Kreutz. He was parodying Andy Warhol consuming a Burger King Whopper in Jørgen Leth's documentary "66 Scenes from America".
Macaulay Culkin | 2010–2016: Musical and other artistic endeavors
He quickly followed that with a supporting part in "Saved!", as a cynical wheelchair-using, non-Christian student in a conservative Christian high school. Though "Saved!" only had modest success at the box office, Culkin received positive reviews for his role in the film and its implications for a career as an adult actor. Culkin began doing voice-over work, with appearances in Seth Green's "Robot Chicken". In 2006, he published an experimental, semi-autobiographical novel titled "Junior", which talked about Culkin's stardom and his shaky relationship with his father. Culkin starred in "Sex and Breakfast", a dark comedy written and directed by Miles Brandman.
Macaulay Culkin | 1998–2010: Return to acting and book debut
Junior is a book written by actor Macaulay Culkin, published in 2006.
Junior (novel) | Introduction
They toured in 2014, beginning in Brooklyn on January 24, 2014. On July 10, 2016, Culkin stated that the Pizza Underground was splitting up and their next album would be the last. Culkin is currently the publisher and CEO of a satirical pop culture website and podcast called Bunny Ears.
Macaulay Culkin | Introduction
It recreated scenes from the movie where McCallister shaved his face, jumped on the bed, and decorated the Christmas tree, all while asking Google Assistant to set reminders for him. The advertisement quickly went viral. In 2019, he had a role in Seth Green's movie "Changeland" with Brenda Song, which was released on June 7, 2019. In February 2020, "American Horror Story" co-creator Ryan Murphy announced that Culkin is part of the starring cast of the series' upcoming tenth season.
Macaulay Culkin | 2016–present: Web content and continued acting career
His mother was a telephone operator and his father worked as a sacristan at a local Catholic church. He was raised Roman Catholic and attended a Catholic school called St. Joseph's School of Yorkville for five years before going to Professional Children's School.
Macaulay Culkin | Early life
In 1994, Culkin took a break from acting after his 15th film in seven years. Wanting a "normal life", he went to a private high school in Manhattan.
Macaulay Culkin | 1994–1998: Career break
He was also in the films "Getting Even with Dad" (1994), "The Pagemaster" (1994) and "Richie Rich" (1994), which were all poor performers at the box office.
Macaulay Culkin | 1990–1994: Breakthrough
Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin (born Macaulay Carson Culkin ) is an American actor, musician, and web host. He rose to prominence as a child actor and is known for playing Kevin McCallister in the Christmas films "Home Alone" (1990) and its sequel "" (1992). For the former he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Along with the "Home Alone" series, Culkin also starred in the films "My Girl" (1991), "The Good Son" (1993), "The Nutcracker" (1993), "Getting Even with Dad" (1994), "The Pagemaster" (1994) and "Richie Rich" (1994). He has been nominated for the MTV Movie Awards and Young Artist Awards.
Macaulay Culkin | Introduction
In July 2016, Culkin appeared in a television advertisement for Compare the Market. In January 2018, Culkin launched a comedy website and podcast called Bunny Ears that parodied other celebrity-owned websites such as Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop. Since 2018, Culkin has been a frequent guest of RedLetterMedia, appearing in multiple episodes of their "Best of the Worst", "re:View", and "Half in the Bag" webseries, as well as "Angry Video Game Nerd", where he appears as either himself, a character, or a parody of himself. In an advertisement for Google Assistant published on December 19, 2018, Culkin reprised his "Home Alone" role as Kevin McCallister after 28 years.
Macaulay Culkin | 2016–present: Web content and continued acting career
Macaulay Culkin is an American actor and musician. The following are his roles in film, television and web series.
Macaulay Culkin filmography | Introduction
His interest in show business remained a constant, and in later years McAleer developed a strong friendship with Broadway composer and performer George M. Cohan.
Jimmy McAleer | Early years
GMA Dove Award), Pop Contemporary Song of the Year for "Listening", and Worship Song of the Year for "Amazing". These songs were then included on the full-length album called "From You For You" released in April 2012.
Dan Macaulay | Musical career
Colin McAlpin (9 April 1870 – 13 May 1942) was an English composer of songs, operas and ballet music, an organist and a writer of critical essays on music.
Colin McAlpin | Introduction
In 1998, he appeared in the music video for the song "Sunday" by the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2000, Culkin returned to acting with a role in the play "Madame Melville", which was staged in London's West End. In the spring of 2003, he made a guest appearance on the NBC sitcom "Will & Grace". His role as Karen Walker's deceptively immature divorce lawyer won him favorable reviews. Culkin headed back into motion pictures in 2003 with "Party Monster", in which he played a role very different from those he was known for; that of party promoter Michael Alig, a drug user and murderer.
Macaulay Culkin | 1998–2010: Return to acting and book debut
Culkin was born in New York City, to Patricia Brentrup and Kit Culkin, a former stage actor who had appeared on Broadway. He has six siblings—Shane, Dakota, Macaulay, Quinn, Christian and Rory, —all of whom were raised as performers. In 1994, Culkin's parents separated and he has been estranged from his father ever since.
Kieran Culkin | Early life
Macaulay Carson Culkin was born on August 26, 1980 in New York City. Culkin's father, Christopher Cornelius "Kit" Culkin, is a former actor known for his productions on Broadway and is the brother of actress Bonnie Bedelia. His mother is Patricia Brentrup, who never married Culkin. He was named Macaulay after Thomas Babington Macaulay and Carson after Kit Carson of the Old West. Culkin is the third of seven children, five boys and two girls: Shane (born 1976), Dakota (1979–2008), Kieran (born 1982), Quinn (born 1984), Christian (born 1987), and Rory (born 1989). During Culkin's early childhood, the family lived in a small apartment.
Macaulay Culkin | Early life
At the 12th Youth in Film Awards, Macaulay Culkin won Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Best Original Score, which was written by John Williams, and the other for Best Original Song for "Somewhere in My Memory", music by Williams and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
Home Alone | Accolades
A hectic programme of composing, conducting and teaching brought about a gradual deterioration in MacCunn's health, and he died in 1916 aged only 48.
Hamish MacCunn | Biography
Culkin rose to fame with his lead role of Kevin McCallister in the blockbuster Christmas film "Home Alone" (1990), in which he was reunited with "Uncle Buck" writer and director John Hughes and "Uncle Buck" co-star John Candy, who played the role of Polka band member Gus Polinski. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won an American Comedy Award and a Young Artist Award for his role as Kevin McCallister. In 1991, Culkin starred in an animated Saturday morning cartoon television series titled "Wish Kid", hosted "Saturday Night Live" and starred in Michael Jackson's "Black or White" music video.
Macaulay Culkin | 1990–1994: Breakthrough
Culkin was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, the son of Philip Harley Culkin (1898–1977), who was in public relations, and Marian Ethel (née Wagner) (1914–1964), a writer and editor. He and his sisters Candice and actress Bonnie were raised in New York City. For middle school, Kit attended The St. Thomas Choir School in Midtown Manhattan. He and his sister Bonnie took classes at School of American Ballet (as did his son Macaulay in the late 1980s).
Kit Culkin | Early life
On May 10, 2000, his half sister, Jennifer Adamson, died of a drug overdose. On December 10, 2008, his older sister, Dakota, died after being hit by a car. In December 2018, Culkin announced that he would legally change his name to "Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin" after holding a vote through his website to choose a new middle name, with "Macaulay Culkin" winning the vote over four other candidates.
Macaulay Culkin | Personal life
1994 he graduated as a concert pianist and music pedagogue.
Ekkehard Wölk | Early life
He also studied music theory with Francis Sanderson.
Earl MacDonald | Early years
He went on from Curtis to study with Enrique Graf at the College of Charleston in their Artist Certificate program in Fall of 2004. In 2012 he graduated with a Master of Music from the Juilliard School, studying with Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald, before entering the Professional Studies Diploma program at Mannes College later that year to study with Richard Goode. He was accepted into the Doctor of Musical Arts program at the Yale School of Music in the studio of Boris Berman in 2014, and completed the residential portion of the degree in the Spring of 2016.
Sean Kennard | Education
He began to vote Democratic, first for Stevenson and then for Kennedy. Potentially more damaging for Copland was a sea-change in artistic tastes, away from the Populist mores that infused his work of the 1930s and 40s. Beginning in the 1940s, intellectuals assailed Popular Front culture, to which Copland's music was linked, and labeled it, in Dickstein's words, as "hopelessly middlebrow, a dumbing down of art into toothless entertainment". They often linked their disdain for Populist art with technology, new media and mass audiences—in other words, the areas of radio, television and motion pictures, for which Copland either had or soon would write music, as well as his popular ballets.
Aaron Copland | 1950s and 1960s
He was born in 1928 to an Irish-Catholic family from Brooklyn. He and his brother Gerald attended Xavier High School, an elite Jesuit College Preparatory High School, in Manhattan, where he was on the basketball team. He graduated from there in 1950 and then entered the Society of Jesus. He attended Bellarmine College, was ordained at Fordham University, and received a doctorate in education from Harvard University.
John M. Culkin | Early life and education
Shain graduated from Duke in the summer of 1989, and immediately began pursuing a career in music.
Jon Shain | College years
Although he listed himself as a “musician” in San Francisco in 1925, his musical career seems to have ended in the late 1920s.
Vincent C. Plunkett | Composer
John M. Culkin, Jr. (June 21, 1928 – July 23, 1993) was an American academic and former priest who was a leading media scholar and critic, educator, writer and consultant.
John M. Culkin | Introduction
Terence "Cuz" Teahan (1905–1989) was a notable traditional Irish musician and composer from the Sliabh Luachra district. He played concertina, accordion and fiddle and composed songs and dance tunes.
Terence Teahan | Introduction
The young composer applied first at the Conservatory (1903), where he was rejected for being above the age limit, and then at the Royal Academy of Music (1904), where he was accepted at the section of Theory and Harmony. After three years of studentship in Bucharest, Cuclin obtained a scholarship for Paris. He failed to get into the Conservatory (he was not a brilliant violin player, although he was an acceptable one), but he was admitted at Vincent D’Indy’s Schola Cantorum, where he studied until his scholarship expired in 1914. Because of the government’s refusal to supplement his scholarship, Cuclin had to leave France without completing his studies, thus without a French university degree, but with an attestation from D’Indy that certified his competencies.
Dimitrie Cuclin | Studentship
From 2003 – Current: Theatre Works Solo Work:
Jeremy Mayall | Other compositional history
He starred as Miles Russell alongside actor John Candy in the comedy film "Uncle Buck" (1989).
Macaulay Culkin | 1985–1989: Early work
During that time he continued to study music with Bauman. In 1966 he was awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation which enabled him to pursue music studies in the United States. Further grants from the Canada Council allowed him to continue these studies through 1970 with such teachers as John Mack and Ray Still.
Lawrence Cherney | Introduction
Significant venues include Carnegie Recital Hall (1969 and 1982), Great American Music Hall, Shanghai Conservatory, Beijing Conservatory, Faneuil Hall, and others.
Daniel Hecht | Musical career
Yeston noted, "I am as much a lyricist as a composer, and the musical theatre is the only genre I know in which the lyrics are as important as the music." After graduating from Yale in 1967, Yeston attended Clare College at Cambridge University in England on a Mellon Fellowship where he continued his studies in musicology and composition. There, he belonged to Cambridge Footlights Dramatic Club and wrote several classical pieces (including a set of atonal songs for soprano) and a musical version of "Alice in Wonderland". "Alice" was eventually produced at the Long Wharf Theatre in Connecticut in 1971.
Maury Yeston | Early years
At the same time, he joined the conservatory's faculty. He eventually returned to the University of Toronto where he earned a Doctor of Music in composition in 1958. His other teachers included Weldon Kilburn, Reginald Godden, E. Robert Schmitz, and Ernst Krenek.
Samuel Dolin | Early career and education
Initiated in 1933 into the "Grand Orient de France", he also wrote many musical pieces for masonic ceremonies.
Julien Falk | Compositions
For five years Tremblay studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition under Patterson.
George Tremblay | Biography
Zetlin asserts that while there was no diminution of Balakirev's creative talent, the reason for this lack of disparity was because Balakirev "had ceased to evolve" as an artist; he remained creatively at the point he had reached in the 1860s, "and his newest works seemed thus merely an echo of the past."
Mily Balakirev | Music
At age 22, Murphy was offered a job writing for the sitcom "Seinfeld" which was then little-known. He did not expect the show to be successful and chose to continue with music instead.
James Murphy (electronic musician) | Early musical projects
Colin McAlpin was born in 1870, at 15 Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, England. He was the fourth child of a clothier John William McAlpin, and his German wife Marie Louise (née Gerdes). His elder siblings were Kenneth, Donal and Janet, and his younger brothers Alan and John. McAlpin published his first composition when he was only 15 and at Wellingborough School: a song called "The Cuckoo" published in the "Midland Musical Journal". At the age of 16 he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music to study harmony with F. W. Davenport and organ playing with Charles Steggall, and after three years he acquired silver medals in both areas of study.
Colin McAlpin | Life
Macaulay Culkin played Tom Tucker (the juvenile "midshipmite") in "H.M.S. Pinafore".
Light Opera of Manhattan | Beginning years at the Jan Hus
His friends spoke of his charming personality, but others thought him arrogant and vain. He composed one of the earliest musical settings of A. E. Housman, 'When I was one-and-twenty' in 1904, the same year Arthur Somervell published his "A Shropshire Lad" song cycle.
Michael Maybrick | Musical career
As a teen he attended the London School of Dramatic Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago before graduating from Syracuse University in 1990. He is the grandson of Cecilia Dubin, the Russian concert pianist.
Ken Goldstein | Early life and education
1923), the mother of two of his children, Hamish (b. 1950) and Kirsty (1959–2000).
Ewan MacColl | Music
In one review of that piece, Lowdermilk and Kerrigan were called "perhaps the most important young writers in musical theatre today." Lowdermilk has received a Richard Rodgers Staged Reading Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Alan Menken scholarship award from NYU Steinhardt, and a Jonathan Larson Memorial Fellowship at the Dramatists Guild.
Brian Lowdermilk | Biography
Composer/Lyricist 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016
Ilan Kidron | Discography
But once the boy started playing, I saw huge talent. I was amazed." Li studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing for 10 years before beginning studies at the Juilliard School in 1996.
Li Chuan Yun | Biography
Music also have an important place in his life, he started playing music at 8 years old. He first played clarinet, in a orchestra in Megève until he was 15, then he switched to saxophone and at 18, he learned piano and guitar. He then made his first compositions in 2016 when he was 24 years old, he now has his own musical production: Sound-it.
Stephen Manas | Music
This classical background is often to be heard in his jazz compositions but his love for American music - its jazz, rhythm, harmony - prevails. Combining all the musical skills, from playing to composing, jazz opened the way for Shahin to express his inner world, his music and it was not long in becoming the main focus of his creativity.
Shahin Novrasli | Childhood
Macaulay's music recording career began in 2008, with the studio album, "As for Me", that was released on 30 September 2008, by Authentic Records. His subsequent studio album, "Life Light", was released from Mustard Productions, on 15 August 2012.
Matthew Macaulay | Music career
Shroedel took to music at an early age studying drums and piano as well as musical composition. He has a BS in Economics, M.A. in Music, and A.D. of Psychology.
Klay Shroedel | Early life
Cushman began his studies with teacher Yukako Tarumi at the age of five and studied with Juilliard professor Shirley Givens throughout high school.
Jeremy Cushman | Music career
Mawhinney was born in County Down, Northern Ireland in 1976. As a student, he studied music at the University of Oxford, the University of York and Queen's University Belfast, the latter of which he has held the position of senior lecturer in composition since 2006.
Simon Mawhinney | Early life and education
Culkin's early career involved working on Broadway in theater productions with actors such as Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn. His brother Terry and sisters Bonnie and Candace also worked in theater and television. Culkin credits his mother, who was their manager, for these early successes. Three of his sons — Macaulay, Rory, and Kieran — are professional actors whose careers eclipse their father's acting career, but gained him prominence as their manager from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s.Macaulay became extremely popular due to his starring roles in the "Home Alone" films, and he was the first child in Hollywood to receive a million dollar salary for "My Girl" in 1991.
Kit Culkin | Career
The same contradictions and ambiguities were endured by African Americans like the composer James A. Bland, the actor Sam Lucas, and the bandleader James Reese Europe. The classically trained African-American composer Will Marion Cook, who toured throughout the United States and gave a command performance for King George V in England, struggled to raise his music to a public perception of distinction and merit, but was thwarted by marketing that distinguished author and music only by skin color. Cook wrote what he called "real Negro melodies" and what he envisioned as "opera." He sought to market the syncopated sounds emanating from black expressive culture, but his compositions would be sold as "coon songs" suitable for variety stages.
Hokum | Artistic dilemma
After graduating from Manhattan School of Music, he decided to pursue a career as a composer in musical theatre.
Binyumen Schaechter | His Early Years
Goldmark, with whom Copland studied between 1917 and 1921, gave the young Copland a solid foundation, especially in the Germanic tradition. As Copland stated later: "This was a stroke of luck for me. I was spared the floundering that so many musicians have suffered through incompetent teaching." But Copland also commented that the maestro had "little sympathy for the advanced musical idioms of the day" and his "approved" composers ended with Richard Strauss.
Aaron Copland | Early years
Following World War II, Harman resumed his a career as a music critic, which spanned two decades. He wrote articles for "The New York Times" (1947–1952) and "Time Magazine" (1952-1957). Harman also composed a ballet titled "Blackface", an opera titled "The Food of Love", and several children's songs. Recorded by Broadway star Mary Martin, his children's songs were released as the album "Mary Martin Sings for Children". Starting in the 1950s and continuing into the 1960s, Harman worked as a music critic in Puerto Rico. In 1956 he began his career as a record producer, working with Emory Cook, founder of Cook Records.
Carter Harman | Writing and music industry career
Crehan's peers have described his playing as "sweet" and "emotive," and his bowing as "economical." He is said to have relied more on rhythmic variation than on ornamentation, and relying heavily on long rolls when he did use ornamentation. He made extensive use of double-stops, and music writer Barry Taylor suggests this may result from the influence of his friendships with uilleann pipers Willie Clancy and Johnny Doran.
Junior Crehan | Playing style
Horan spent much of this period stepping back from performance and recording to focus on educational music workshops and private music instruction, though he did begin work on eight songs that would eventually be released through his Patreon page and later releases.
Seth Horan | 2010-2014
1970-1974 he studied music (violin, piano and composition) at The National University for Music in Bucharest. He was granted the "Doctor of Music", (Aesthetics) from this university in 2005. His dissertation was on "The Venetian baroque music of Antonio Vivaldi." He is a teacher of Aesthetics at the Fine Arts and Music High School of Ploieşti (Romania).
Ioan Mihai Cochinescu | Study
However, he attempted to compose diverse kinds of pop music, including rock music. In the end, he composed a great hybrid album based on pop and classical music, which revealed his inherent ultimate musical sense, comparable to that of famous western musicians. Such gifted musical talent is a major driving force to maintain great live tours at the World Cup Soccer Stadium in South Korea, even at the age of over 60.
Cho Yong-pil | Commercial decline and concerts: 1992
He would return to Juilliard in 2001 to study composition with Stanley Wolfe.
Jeremy Adelman (composer) | Early life and career
After performing few years as member of the orchestra he decided to continue his education and become a composer.
İstemihan Taviloğlu | Youth
He starred as Thomas J. Sennett in the film "My Girl" (1991), for which he was nominated for Best On-Screen Duo, and won Best Kiss at the MTV Movie Awards, with Anna Chlumsky. He was paid $4.5 million (compared to $110,000 for the original) to reprise his role of Kevin McCallister in the sequel "" (1992). He played the role of Henry in the drama thriller film "The Good Son" (1993), which only did reasonably well, although he was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the category for Best Villain for his performance. He was also a student at the School of American Ballet and appeared in a filmed version of "The Nutcracker" as the title role in 1993, which was staged by Peter Martins from the 1954 George Balanchine New York City Ballet version of the work.
Macaulay Culkin | 1990–1994: Breakthrough
He attended the Yeshiva of Hudson County through grade eight. Yeston's interest in musical theatre began at age ten when his mother took him to see "My Fair Lady" on Broadway. At Jersey Academy, a small private high school in Jersey City, Yeston broadened his musical study beyond classical and religious music and Broadway show tunes to include jazz, folk, rock and roll, and early music. He took up folk guitar, played vibraphone with a jazz group, and participated in madrigal singing. As an undergraduate at Yale University Yeston majored in music theory and composition, writing an atonal sonata for piano and a cello concerto that won Yale's "Friends of Music Prize", and minored in literature, particularly French, German, and Japanese.
Maury Yeston | Early years
Tony Macaulay (born Anthony Gordon Instone, 21 April 1944) is an English author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter. He has won the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Award twice as 'Songwriter of the Year' (1970 and 1977). He is a nine time Ivor Novello Awards winning songwriter. In 2007, he became the only British person to win the Edwin Forrest Award for outstanding contribution to the American theatre. Macaulay's best-known songs include "Baby Now That I've Found You" and "Build Me Up Buttercup" with The Foundations, "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All," as well as "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" and "Don't Give Up on Us".
Tony Macaulay | Introduction
Creel was born in Findlay, Ohio. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance in 1998. During his time at Findlay High School, he was in FFE (Findlay First Edition), which is a show choir. Creel graduated from Findlay High School in 1994.
Gavin Creel | Early life and education
Recalling his father, his son Howard claimed he developed his playing style from Carroll Gibbons, including adopting medleys where he would fuse two or three tunes together reminiscent of the style of Gibbons.
Jim Caine (jazz pianist) | Musicianship
In 2011, McAvinue received a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Performance from Towson University, where he studied under pianist Tim Murphy, trumpeter David Ballou, and violinist Dr. Jeffrey Howard.
Patrick McAvinue | Early years
Durkan Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS).
Harry White (musicologist) | Achievements
Even as a student at Changsha Normal High School, Li's musical aptitude was apparent; the teen served as a musician, choir director, and part-time music instructor before he graduated in 1911.
Li Jinhui | Early years
After earning his PhD in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 with a thesis on the music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, he returned to Paris and worked mainly as a freelance performer until returning to the United States to serve on the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2001. He has given the first modern performances of much repertoire; the "Livre de tablature de Clavescin" by Marc Roger Normand Couperin of Turin, whose works he identified in 1997, the complete organ works of Louis Couperin and a newly discovered autograph manuscript of harpsichord music by Henry Purcell.
Davitt Moroney | Introduction
For his non-academic and artistic work, Diskin uses the pen name “Bertie.” Diskin has written and illustrated several children books, among them “Gorgozula" and "The Mice and the Magic Ball. He co-authored a book on the World Soccer Championships (“Mondial”) with his son Tommer. Diskin has published two satirical works ("On the Sinking Ship" and "The Lagado Travel"). In 2008 he published "The Presidents" – "Ha’Nesi’im"), a book about American presidents.
Avraham Diskin | Literary and artistic career
In 1986, Darling joined Young Audiences, an organization that seeks to educate children about music and the arts through school programs. In the same year, he founded Music for People, which seeks to encourage self-expression through musical improvisation. His teaching methods are the subject of a book, "Return to Child" (2008). In May 2008, he became part of a collaboration of music teacher and performers offering a training program in holistic and intercultural approaches to healing with sound and music at the New York Open Center Sound and Music School.
David Darling (musician) | Other activities
Julien Falk (1902-1987) was a 20th-century French composer and composition teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris, and wrote many theorical music books. He had many students including well known composers Serge Gainsbourg, Gabriel Yared, Michel Coeuriot, Michel Colombier, Pierre Yves Lenik, Eric Demarsan, Richard Galliano, Robbi Finkel, Philippe Blay and Alain Goraguer.
Julien Falk | Introduction
Silver was a teacher at the school who taught a class called The History of Popular Music.
Murray M. Silver Jr. | Introduction
He started formal piano and clarinet lessons as a child, but quickly abandoned them. He then began writing down music, initially using a keyboard but soon switched to writing the sounds in his head directly onto paper. To assist with this process, he studied sight-singing with Andras Ranki at Morley College, London in 1983.
Tim Hodgkinson | Music
He returned to Los Angeles to finish his degree, and graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in 1992. In a 2013 interview, Kurstin said that his education in jazz had played a vital role in his pop success. "It's still something I carry over into my pop music work. It's really important to me that the notes I'm choosing strike the right emotional chord."
Greg Kurstin | Early life and education
Quintón continued to study music and was the director of his school's band. During his spare time he gave piano and violin lessons. By 1917, Quintón had taught himself to read English. This enabled him to read and study the English language music magazines of the time thus becoming informed of the styles and compositions of Debussy, Ravel and other composers.
José Ignacio Quintón | Early years
He graduated from the State Academy of Music, Sofia in 1967 with a speciality in Musical Pedagogy and studied composition under Professor Pencho Stoyanov and Professor Pancho Vladigerov. From 1969 to 1974 Poturlyan studied composition at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan, Armenia under Professor Lazar Sarian.
Artin Poturlyan | Education
Macfarren began to study music when he was fourteen, under Charles Lucas. In 1829, at the age of sixteen, he entered the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied composition under Cipriani Potter as well as piano under William Henry Holmes and trombone with John Smithies. His ability to perform, however, was hindered by his poor eyesight and he soon concentrated upon composing only. In his first year at the Academy, Macfarren composed his first work, the Symphony in F minor. From 1834 to 1836 Macfarren taught at the Academy without a professorship; he was appointed a professor in 1837.
George Alexander Macfarren | Musical career
David McCord Lippincott wrote music and lyrics from an early age. The first evidence of that is a musical revue he wrote while attending the Hotchkiss School called "Little Boy Blue". He then went to Yale University, as did his father; was a member of Skull & Bones, as was his father William Jackson Lippincott. He graduated in 1949.
David McCord Lippincott | Education
His production that year was "The Young & Fair".
High School of Performing Arts | Early years
Gourlay has a commitment to new music and has given premières of works by Bingham, Gorb, Gilbert, Lachenmann, Gregson, Horovitz, Sparke, Penderecki and Newton to name but a few.
James Gourlay | Biography
Written in Stone (Part one) - Ancestors Written in Stone (Part two) - Fa Zhou, Yun, Fa Li, Grandmother Fa, Lin, Laozi, Hong, Ensemble Written in Stone (Part three) - Ancestors and Ensemble
Mulan Jr. | Musical Numbers
During high-school, he began to compose small musical pieces, which impressed the composer G.D. Kiriac, who thus suggested that Cuclin should go to Bucharest to study music.
Dimitrie Cuclin | Early life
Young was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and had a strong musical upbringing, learning the violin from the age of six, but chose not to pursue performance as a career and instead went on to study an undergraduate degree in Music Technology at the University of Edinburgh. That course introduced him to working creatively with sound and he went on to gain an MA in Sound Design at Bournemouth University for which he received a distinction.
Kenneth Young (Scottish composer) | Early life and education
Junior Crehan (born Martin Crehan, 17 January 1908 – 3 August 1998) was an Irish fiddle player who composed a number of tunes that remain popular within the Irish Traditional Music community.
Junior Crehan | Introduction
He began to work for the university of Edinburgh in 1958, teaching first in English and Linguistics, later the Celtic Studies Department. He also taught at Trinity College, Dublin, at Aberdeen University, and at the Glasgow University where he retired in 1996.
Donald MacAulay | Academic career
In interviews with the Glasgow's "Daily Record" in September 2010 and the UK's "The Independent" in October 2010, McGee stated he had lost interest in music and was more interested in the esoteric and occult teachings of Aleister Crowley and Peter J. Carroll, particularly Carroll's book "Liber Null".
Alan McGee | Retirement from music management and other activities
There followed several American and European tours. He also toured as an assistant pianist for the Duncan Dancers, a troupe headed by Isadora Duncan. In 1921 he joined the music faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music, serving as the institution's director from 1932 until his death. He wrote an "Outline of Piano Pedagogy" (1929); among the works he composed were a piano concerto, a string quartet, and numerous pieces and studies for piano solo.
Beryl Rubinstein | Introduction
Anne Macaulay (11 March 1924 – 1998) was a Scottish musicologist, author and lecturer.
Anne Macaulay | Introduction
He is also on the violin faculty as associate professor at the Queens College, the Aaron Copland School of Music, the CUNY Doctoral program, and at the Columbia University Teacher’s College.
Chin Kim | Activities
In L.A. he studied with Arnold Schoenberg, who had chaired the Young Artist Award adjudication committee. From 1938-39, he studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music with Healey Willan (composition), Reginald Godden (piano), Charles Peaker (organ), and Leo Smith (harmony).
Eldon Rathburn | Early life and education