The Letter U

Uber, David Double Portraits for Trombone & Tuba,
1. Times Square Allegretto 2.Twilight: Andante, poco agitato 3. The City Awakes: Vivace
Performed by: Steven Harlos, piano; Michael Lind, Tuba BIS Rel. January 31, 1996       
Born in Princeton, Illinois, he has lived in Wyoming, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Vermont. After his graduation from Carthage College and receiving a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Uber served four years in the United States Navy Band and then continued his studies at Columbia University where he obtained his Master of Arts and Doctor of Education degrees.Dr. Uber was professor of music at the College of New Jersey (formerly known as Trenton State College) for thirty-three years. Death: June 29, 2007

Marco Uccellini (1603-1680)Uccellini's life is poorly known. Born at Forlimpopoli, Forlì, he studied in the Assisi seminary. He became musical director (Capo degl’instrumentisti) of the Este court in Modena from 1641 to 1662, and was the musical director (maestro di cappella) of the Modena cathedral from 1647 to 1665. Afterwards he served as maestro di cappella at the Farnese court in Parma until his death. At the Farnese court, he composed operas and ballets, but none of this music survives; thus, he is mainly known today for his instrumental music. Uccellini was one of a line of distinguished Italian violinist-composers in the first half of the 17th century. His sonatas for violin and continuo contributed to the development of an idiomatic style of writing for the violin (including virtuosic runs, leaps, and forays into high positions), expanding the instrument's technical capabilities and expressive range. Like other 17th-century Italian sonatas, Uccellini's consist of short contrasting sections (frequently dances) that flow one into another. Uccellini's innovations influenced a generation of Austro-German violinist-composers including Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Heinrich Ignaz Biber, and Johann Jakob Walther.
Sonata for violin & continuo, Op.7, No.1 Toccata, no. 1,Helene Schmitt, Violin (Baroque) Arno Jochem, Violin, Karl-Ernst Schröder, Theorbo, Markus Markl, Organ
Christophorus Rel. January 1, 1999

Sohrab Uduman
Sohrab Uduman was born in Sri-Lanka in 1962. He began his musical life as a clarinettist, at the University of Surrey, and went on to study composition at the University of Birmingham with Vic Hoyland and Jonty Harrison . His music has received several awards, including an international prize at the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, The Bourges International Competition for Electro-acoustic Music, the George Butterworth Award, the Oskar Back Foundation Prize for Young European Composers and first prize in the Prix Annelie de Man 2012 Composer’s Competition . Sohrab Uduman's music has featured at many festivals, including the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music, The Spitalfields Festival, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Cheltenham International Festival of Music,
Breath across autumnal ground, for harpsichord & live electronics
Jane Chapman Harpsichord Sohrab Uduman Electronics
NMC Recordings
Rel. April 1, 2012

Ken Ueno
e studied at the United States Military Academy. He graduated from Berklee College of Music with a B.M. in Film Scoring/Composition Summa Cum Laude, from Boston University with a M.M., from Yale School of Music with a M.M.A., and from Harvard University with a Ph.D.

He taught at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-director of Minimum Security Composers Collective.
He has composed orchestral works, for jazz big band and woodwind quintet, and two dance pieces for the Boston Conservatory.[4] He performed at the Flea, New York City.[5] Ueno is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.

Ueno has collaborated with violist Kim Kashkashian and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky on the works Hypnomelodiamachia for viola, percussion, and electronics (2007), and Two Hands, a Kashkashian commission, for viola and percussion (2009). A monograph compact disc of three works for soloist(s) and orchestra, Talus for viola and orchestra, On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis for solo throat-singer and orchestra, and Kaze-no-Oka for biwa, shakuhachi, and orchestra, was released by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in 2010. Ueno has also written for such ensembles as the So Percussion Group, Bang on a Can All-Stars, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and eighth blackbird.

Ueno's compositional approach frequently involves extra-musical modeling, including using images, cultural phenomena, or architecture as the basis for structural decisions, somewhat analogous to the use of architectural proportions in Renaissance music. Kaze-no-Oka, for example, reflects in part the structure of the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki's like-named project.[6] His Talus is, in a manner of speaking, a biography of a traumatic event in the life of its soloist, violist Wendy Richman, who shattered her ankle in a ten-foot fall.[7] He is keenly interested in the process of exploring unique, in some sense irreproducible, sonic events linked to the performers for which his music is written.
As a performer, Ueno is active as a throat-singing vocalist and performing with live electronics. He is an accomplished guitarist.
In 2010, he is the recipient of the Berlin Prize in Music Composition at the American Academy in Berlin. On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, Ken Ueno

Vincenzo Ugolini (1570-1638) Vincenzo Ugolini (ca. 1580 – 6 May 1638) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and of the Roman School.
Born in Perugia, he was first a puer chori (boy soprano) at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino; then he was engaged as a contralto until July 1594 and as a bass from the beginning of May 1600 until the end of 1601.
In 1603 he was mastro di capella of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome. After an illness in 1606, in 1609 he left this work and became maestro at the Duomo of Benevento until 1615 (but in 1614 he worked for Cardinal Arrigoni in Rome). From 2 July 1616 he turned to San Luigi dei Francesi holding the same positions, and in 1620 he succeeded Francesco Soriano as maestro of the Cappella Giulia at San Pietro.
In 1629 he was deponent for the testament of the composer Domenico Allegri, brother of Gregorio.
From May 1631 he was again maestro of San Luigi, and held the post until his death in 1638; his successor was his pupil Orazio Benevoli.
Beata es virgo Maria, motet for 12 voices Le Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal Ensemble ATMA Classique Rel. January 1, 2007

Alfred Uhl died 1992 Austrian Alfred Uhl (born June 5, 1909 in Vienna; † June 8, 1992) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Uhl, the son of a postman studied, as a student of Franz Schmidt at the Vienna Music Academy (now University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) composition and graduated with PhD. from. After the "Anschluss of Austria" it was 1938 Gauobmann of the Section I of the student council folk music of the Reich Music Chamber. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, but released in 1941 after a serious injury. In 1943 he received the proposal of the Reich Governor and Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach the Schubert Prize of the City Vienna, was appointed as a teacher at the Vienna Academy of Music and was appointed professor.
Divertimento for clarinet quartet  Kalamos Clarinet Quartet  Klavier Rel. January 1, 1996    1.Allegro
2.Andante sostenuto, molto expressivo
3. Allegro con brio

The Letter R

Broadway-Lafayette, February 2015 Maurice Ravel (Piano Concerto in G Major) Kristjan Järvi and the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Roméo and Juliet: Highlights. Libretto by Barbier & Carré. Angel [1966] Starring Nicolai Gedda, as Roméo, and Rosanna Carteri, as Juliette, with supporting soloists; Orchestre du Théâtre de l'Opéra; Alain Lombard,  conductor.

The Piano Guys, Rolling in the Deep, Portrait, Sony
 
Svjatoslav Richter recital. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft [1963] op. 61, op. 10, no. 1 and 12, and op. 52, by Chopin, Estampes, by Debussy, and Sonata no. 5, in F sharp major, op. 53, by Scriabin. Sv︠i︡atoslav Richter, piano.