Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Richard Nanes (born 1941 in Philadelphia, died of cancer October 8, 2009) was an American businessman and dilettante composer and pianist. He was president and co-owner of Nanes Finishing and Assembly Corporation in Newark NJ for over 30 years. He received seven consecutive International Angel Awards from the Excellence in Media Foundation.Nanes’ works include four symphonies, various concerted works for piano or violin, 5 string quartets, and numerous piano pieces. They have been recorded and the scores published by the Delphon Recording Society, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra or by Nanes himself as pianist. Nanes has also staged performances and financed recordings of his works in Ukraine and Russia, where there are many first-rate orchestras available for hire.Nanes is known as a controversial figure in the classical music world. Reviews of his recordings at amazon.com are extravagantly laudatory or equally extravagantly denunciatory, with little in the middle. The critical picture is clearer in Internet discussion groups, where the consensus appears to be that the quality of his music is inversely proportional to the vigor with which he promoted it, and where he is frequently called “Richard Inanes”. A search of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature reveals no mentions of his name, though some elementary style analysis can be found on the Internet. Library holdings of his recordings and scores are proportionate to a composer of his age and fame, with score holdings concentrated in the Chicago and New York public libraries, MIT, Eastman, University of Louisville and University of New Mexico.. }
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- Richard_Nanes abstract "Richard Nanes (born 1941 in Philadelphia, died of cancer October 8, 2009) was an American businessman and dilettante composer and pianist. He was president and co-owner of Nanes Finishing and Assembly Corporation in Newark NJ for over 30 years. He received seven consecutive International Angel Awards from the Excellence in Media Foundation.Nanes’ works include four symphonies, various concerted works for piano or violin, 5 string quartets, and numerous piano pieces. They have been recorded and the scores published by the Delphon Recording Society, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra or by Nanes himself as pianist. Nanes has also staged performances and financed recordings of his works in Ukraine and Russia, where there are many first-rate orchestras available for hire.Nanes is known as a controversial figure in the classical music world. Reviews of his recordings at amazon.com are extravagantly laudatory or equally extravagantly denunciatory, with little in the middle. The critical picture is clearer in Internet discussion groups, where the consensus appears to be that the quality of his music is inversely proportional to the vigor with which he promoted it, and where he is frequently called “Richard Inanes”. A search of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature reveals no mentions of his name, though some elementary style analysis can be found on the Internet. Library holdings of his recordings and scores are proportionate to a composer of his age and fame, with score holdings concentrated in the Chicago and New York public libraries, MIT, Eastman, University of Louisville and University of New Mexico.".