Orchestra Ethiopia was an Ethiopian concert band formed in 1963 by the Egyptian-born American composer and ethnomusicologist Halim El-Dabh (born 1921)...
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Ethiopian music is a term that can mean any music of Ethiopian origin, however, often it is applied to a genre, a distinct modal system that is pentatonic...
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Region.“ The instrument was also used in some pieces performed by Orchestra Ethiopia in the 1960s. Bishop, Sarah (2016). For the Motherland (#### ###):...
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Chineke! Orchestra (/ˈtʃɪnɛkeɪ/[needs Igbo IPA]) is a British orchestra, the first professional orchestra in Europe to be made up of majority Black & ethnically...
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Éthiopiques (category Music of Ethiopia)
Either/Orchestra with Mulatu Astatke, Getatchew Mekurya, Tsedenia G. Markos, Bahta Hewet, Michael Belayneh (2006) Éthiopiques Volume 21: Ethiopia Song,...
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Mulatu Astatke (category Ethiopian composers)
ästaṭḳe; French pronunciation: Astatqé; born 19 December 1943) is an Ethiopian musician and arranger considered as the father of "Ethio-jazz". Born in...
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late 1940s, with the main objective of playing Ethiopian songs by soloists accompanied by a modern orchestra. The Austrian composer Franz Zelwecker became...
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Four Neighb'rhood Childr'n New Birth (band) New York Youth Symphony Orchestra Ethiopia The Outcasts (Texas band) Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano The Poets The...
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first official orchestra of Ethiopia. By the end of World War II, large orchestras accompanied singers; the most prominent orchestras were the Army Band...
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small community of Armenians in Ethiopia, primarily in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Armenians had traded with Ethiopia as far back as the first century...
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monuments across the city. Parades by the Ethiopian Police Orchestra Brass Band occur to mark the occasion. "Ethiopia Patriots Day – 5th May | Tesfa Tours"...
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Imperial Tiger Orchestra is a Swiss group of modern popular Ethiopian music. Its name hints at the Imperial bodyguard band of the Halie Selassie era and...
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Selam Woldemariam (category Ethiopian musicians)
the group and together with Tesfaye Lemma of Orchestra Ethiopia, they traveled to various parts of Ethiopia. Towards mid-1974, Woldemariam and some other...
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Finland, Sweden, Russia, Italy, Portugal, Ethiopia and Uganda. It has been estimated that the Either/Orchestra has performed more than 1,000 concerts. Due...
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Getatchew Mekurya (category Ethiopian musicians)
14: Negus of Ethiopian Sax (recorded in 1970, originally released on Philips Ethiopia in 1972) Ethiopiques Volume 20: Either/Orchestra Live in Addis...
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became very popular across the country, and many of Ethiopia's earliest music groups such as orchestras, symphonies, and chamber groups were organized by...
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891, the ensemble has...
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co-authored The Universal Ethiopian Anthem with Benjamin E. Burrell. Ford officially functioned as director of UNIA Band, Orchestra, Band of the African Legion...
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the Haile Selassie Theater Orchestra. He remained with the orchestra for over a decade and performed with them across Ethiopia, as well as in Kenya, Uganda...
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The military history of Ethiopia dates back to the foundation of early Ethiopian Kingdoms in 980 BC. Ethiopia has been involved in many of the major conflicts...
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time and were found again in 2009. Ethiopia's Shadow was performed by the University of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in January 2015. On September 30, 2018...
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Andrea Lykke Oehlenschlæger (category Danish people of Ethiopian descent)
August 1997) is an Ethiopian born-Danish singer and musical theatre actress. She has sung with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Andrea (born Sara)...
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Mahmoud Ahmed (category 20th-century Ethiopian male singers)
አሕመድ; born 8 May 1941) is an Ethiopian singer. He gained great popularity in Ethiopia in the 1970s and among the Ethiopian diaspora in the 1980s, before...
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II, large orchestras accompanied the singers such as Army Band, Police Band, and Imperial Bodyguard Band. From 1960s to 1970s, the Ethiopian Golden Age...
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Kakaki (category Ethiopian musical instruments)
Nigeria. The instrument is also known as malakat or mäläkät (መለከት) in Ethiopia and Eritrea. An ancient instrument, the kakaki was predominant among Songhai...
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The Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia is a world music compilation album originally released in 2012. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series...
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Symphony Center (redirect from Theodore Thomas Orchestra Hall)
Chicago, Illinois. Home to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO); Chicago Symphony Chorus; Civic Orchestra of Chicago; and the Institute for Learning, Access...
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Menelik Wossenachew (category Deaths from pneumonia in Ethiopia)
Selassie I Theatre Orchestra arranged by Nerses Nalbandian. "Tebeb Tequami" was very popular in the time, served as airplay in the Ethiopian Radio education...
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Walias Band (category Ethiopian musical groups)
Walias Band (sometimes spelled Wallias Band; Amharic: ዋሊያስ ባንድ) were an Ethiopian jazz and funk band active from the early 1970s until the early 1990s....
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Gurage people (category Ethnic groups in Ethiopia)
group inhabiting Ethiopia. They inhabit the Gurage Zone and East Gurage Zone, a fertile, semi-mountainous region in Central Ethiopia Regional State, about...
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