| Music of the United States | |
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| Institutions | |
| OperaDelaware - Delaware Symphony Orchestra - Wilmington Music School | |
| Organizations | |
| Delaware Friends of Folk | |
| Festivals | |
| Delaware Music Festival - Clifford Brown Jazz Festival | |
| State song | "Our Delaware" |
| Topics | Music of Wilmington |
Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The Delaware Symphony Orchestra is the largest organization of professional performers in the state, and is more than seventy years old; the orchestra evolved out of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra.[1] The Delaware Music Festival is a prominent music festival.[citation needed]
Other musical institutions include OperaDelaware, the Wilmington Music School, and the School of Contemporary Music[2]. The state song of Delaware is "Our Delaware", with words by George B. Hynson and Donn Devine and music by Will M. S. Brown.[3]
Recent, local trends include a surge in popularity for the blues.[4]
Notable Delaware musicians
- Gary Allegretto, blues harmonica musician [5][6]
- Clifford Brown, jazz trumpeter[citation needed]
- Cab Calloway, jazz band leader, retired to Wilmington, and died in Hockessin, Delaware[citation needed]
- Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell of the band Television. Attended schoolat St. Andrew's School. Verlaine would later briefly attend the University of Delaware.[citation needed]
- George Thorogood, blues/rock musician.[citation needed]
- Bob Marley lived in Delaware for a brief time, during which he was employed at the General Motors site in Newport.[citation needed]
- Boysetsfire, post-hardcore punk band,[7]
- The Spinto Band[citation needed]
- Omnisoul[citation needed]
- The Caulfields[citation needed]
Notes
- ^ Delaware Symphony
- ^ [1]
- ^ Delaware State Song
- ^ "Delaware Coast Press". Archived from the original on 2006-03-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20060302095255/http://www.delmarvanow.com/deweybeach/stories/20051221/2234513.html.
- ^ http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.asp?epk_id=23393
- ^ http://www.delawaretoday.com/Delaware-Today/March-2007/FIRST/
- ^ http://www.boysetsfire.org/culture2.html#readmore
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