Donald Keogh

In the 1990s, Donald Fraser scored a hit with his orchestral arrangement of Marin Marais baroque classic The Bells of Genevieve which reached the Top 5 of Billboards Classical Chart and remains a radio evergreen to this day. Numerous commissions for arrangements followed for musicians such as The Kings Singers, Yehudi Menuhim and the English Chamber Orchestra.

Donald Duck gets his own entry in the increasingly popular Walt Disney Treasures line. The Chronological Donald, Volume One contains the first 36 Donald Duck shorts.
Spanning seven years, these shorts were released at a time when the irascible duck was growing in popularity and upstaging the studio's first solidifed cartoon star, Mickey Mouse

Cheap Xmas: Donald Fagen Complete is a career-spanning compilation highlighting the undeniable musicianship of the GRAMMY Award-winning voice behind Steely Dan. This five-album set features his critically acclaimed works: The Nightfly, Kamakiriad, Morph The Cat, Sunken Condos and a bonus album of rarities. This is the definitive Fagen collection.

As one of the co-leaders of Steely Dan, Donald Fagen developed a smooth, sophisticated blend of jazz, R&B, pop, and rock, a fusion that relied on lyrical wit, technical acumen, and smooth groove. Along with his partner Walter Becker, Fagen honed this style over the course of the 1970s, a journey culminating with 1980's Gaucho. The pair parted ways after its release and while they'd reunite a decade later – first on each other's solo records, then on-stage, and then ultimately in the studio with 2000's Grammy-winning Two Against Nature – their 1980s hiatus gave Fagen the opportunity to establish himself as a solo artist with The Nightfly, a 1982 album that generated the hits "I.G.Y." and "New Frontier" on its way to platinum status and a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

Contemporary music needn’t sacrifice order and aesthetic appeal, even when it deals with complex issues. A glowing example of this is BORN: THE MUSIC OF EDIE HILL AND MICHAEL GILBERTSON, with conductor Donald Nally leading GRAMMY-winning professional chamber choir The Crossing on a breathtakingly beautiful expedition into themes of extinctions, relationships and their complexities, loss, and love.

This double album, with more than 100 minutes of music, actually represents an excerpt from a group of works that ran much longer in concert: up to three-and-a-half hours. The Seven Responses of the title are just that: compositional responses to Dietrich Buxtehude's oratorio Membra Jesu nostri (1680), a work of Bach-like scope consisting of seven cantatas, each addressed to a single limb of the crucified Jesus. The seven new works alternated in performance by the choir The Crossing with the cantatas of the Buxtehude work.

Of Disney's classic Fab Five characters (or the Spectacular Six if you include the often-ignored Daisy), Donald Duck is arguably the most popular. Mickey, of course, will always be the most recognizable due to him being an iconic status symbol, but Donald tends to be the character most people cite as their favorite. As Mickey grew into the Disney figurehead, the studio's animators became much more aware of what sort of situations to put him in. The bad boy antics of his early days no longer seemed to sit well with the character meant to represent the company,
so the team used Donald as a means of letting loose. Without the pressure of iconization, Donald was able to (frequently) lose his temper, get into fights, and play devilish pranks on other characters. Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume 3 showcases his shorts from 1947-1950, made following World War II.

1942 is most visible as the year of Bambi on Walt Disney's resume, but even as the United States waged World War II, the visionary's studio was enjoying success from less elaborate efforts in its cartoon production field. The popularity of Disney's original personality-turned-icon, Mickey Mouse, had already been eclipsed by the comically irascible Donald Duck, though both these lines and other animated endeavors were embraced by the public.