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Donald Walbridge Shirley (January 29, 1927 – April 6, 2013) was an American classical and jazz pianist and composer. He recorded many albums for Cadence Records during the 1950s and 1960s, experimenting with jazz with a classical influence. He wrote organ symphonies, piano concerti, a cello concerto, three string quartets, a one-act opera ...
Dec 10, 2018 · Don Shirley was a 20th-century Jamaican American pianist and composer who often performed with the Don Shirley Trio. A chapter of his life story was the subject of the 2018 film 'Green...
Jan 29, 2021 · By Sara Kettler Updated: Jan 29, 2021. PhotoL Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection. In 1962, casually racist Italian-American bouncer Tony "Lip" Vallelonga and Don Shirley, a gifted...
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Nov 26, 2018 · Everything in writer Nick Vallelonga’s upcoming film Green Book, he insists, is true. The film follows pianist Don Shirley and he travels through the Deep South in the era of Jim Crow and forms a friendship with his driver, white, Italian-American bouncer, Tony Lip. Vallelonga perhaps has some credibility in his claim as Tony Lip, after all ...
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But its famed leader and pianist, Don Shirley, who was black, knew his welcome was conditional. A hateful sign stood at Manitowoc’s city limits: “N-----, don’t let the sun go down on you in...
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Apr 10, 2019 · So who was Don Shirley? And what does the film get right, and possibly wrong, about the American musician? Scroll down for an introductory guide to his life, his music and his many incredible...
Nov 2, 2018 · Nov. 2, 2018. One of the moments in “Green Book” that reveals the most about Donald Shirley — a dandified, erudite piano virtuoso whose career was impeded by racial discrimination — doesn’t...
