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          Musician Paul Winter performs “Lullaby for a Whale” on the saxophone..

          Iceland Symphony Orchestra Anne Manson Mezzosoprano: Ingveldur Ýr Jónsdottir.

        1. Iceland Symphony Orchestra Anne Manson Mezzosoprano: Ingveldur Ýr Jónsdottir.
        2. Requiem, Jón Leifs.
        3. Musician Paul Winter performs “Lullaby for a Whale” on the saxophone.
        4. Elisabeth Cherland is a conductor, singer, song leader, violinist, music educator, and Lutheran church musician originally from Saskatchewan.
        5. Lullaby for Natalie.

          6. Jón Leifs

          Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor

          This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a family name, but this person is referred to by the given name Jón.

          Jón Leifs (born Jón Þorleifsson on 1 May 1899 – 30 July 1968) was an Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor.

          Life

          Jón Leifs was born Jón Þorleifsson, at the farm Sólheimar, then in the Húnavatnssýsla, northwesternIceland.[1] He left for Germany in 1916 to study at the Leipzig Conservatory.

          He graduated in 1921 having studied piano with Robert Teichmüller, but decided not to embark on a career as a pianist, devoting his time instead to conducting and composing. During this period he also encountered the legendary pianist-composer Ferruccio Busoni, who urged him to "follow his own path in composition".[2]

          In the 1920s Jón Leifs conducted a number of symphony orchestras in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Norway and Denmark, thus becoming the only internationally successful Icelandic co