Brian White

Brian White may refer to:

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Brian White (cartoonist)

Brian (H.B.) White (born 1902; died 1984) was a British cartoonist, creating 'The Nipper' for the Daily Mail between 1933 and 1947.

Both 'Keyhole Kate' and 'Double Trouble' ran in London's Evening Standard.

Early in his career he forged links with Sid Griffiths, who had developed Jerry the Tyke and brought in White who had been one of the team of animators on the 1924 film of George E. Studdy's character Bonzo the dog. They latterly formed the company Griffiths and White in 1929, working from an office in the Charing Cross Road, London, initially producing animated advertisements for Superads where Carl Giles was first employed. Griffiths and White continued throughout the 1930s, eventually working at Anson Dyer's Anglia Films Stroud-based studio which was later taken over by Halas & Batchelor for the development of Animal Farm.

In collaboration with cousin Harold White, B&H Publications produced George Bernard Shaw Through The Camera in 1948.

Brain White worked for a year in 1952/3 on the first feature cartoon (75 minutes) Animal Farm, based on George Orwell's novel of the same name. An associate here was Sid Griffiths, with whom he had first collaborated 30 years earlier.

Brian White (cricketer)

Brian Humphrey White (born 3 October 1944) is a former English cricketer. White was a left-handed batsman. He was born at Salisbury, Wiltshire.

White made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Wiltshire in 1964 against Dorset. From 1964 to 1991, he represented the county in 162 Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which came against Buckinghamshire. White also represented Wiltshire in the MCCA Knockout Trophy making his debut in that competition against Shropshire. From 1983 to 1991, he represented the county in 13 Trophy matches, the last of which came against Devon.

White also represented Wiltshire in List-A cricket. His List-A debut came against Nottinghamshire in the 1965 Gillette Cup. From 1965 to 1991, he represented the county in 9 List-A matches, the last of which came against Surrey in the 1990 NatWest Trophy. He also played 8 List-A matches for Minor Counties South in the Benson and Hedges Cup between 1972 and 1974. In his combined 15 List-A matches, he scored 133 runs at a batting average of 8.86 and a high score of 29.

Maestro Curtis

Maestro Curtis, also known as Maestro Brian, is an American musician, composer, arranger, educator, author, and sound alchemist (sound healing).

Biography

Maestro Curtis is known for his musical versatility and voracity, most notably his piano and guitar playing, singing, and compositional and arranging skills. He was born into a family of musicians his mother Lucille Wong Curtis Robinson was a jazz, and gospel singer who performed across the Louisiana bayou and later around the San Francisco Bay Area. Her twin brother Emile Cy Wong was a singer/songwriter on Nat King Cole's record label(KC records). Maestro earned a scholarship to Grambling State University where he attained bachelor's degrees in music (piano and voice), speech and theatre, and radio and television production with a minor in English and foreign languages. Grambling State University is home of the Grambling tiger marching band under the direction of Conrad Hutchinson Jr. While matriculating at Grambling's music department, Maestro was a student of world-renowned classical organist and pianist Curtis Mayo and pianist Delmar Wykoff, whose students were such notables as Joe Sample and Ronnie Laws just to name a few. During his undergraduate studies, Maestro was a member of a gospel group, "The Father's Children", who traveled with the president of Grambling, Joseph B. Johnson, as ambassadors for the university. It was during this two-year period that he sang and performed with Reverend James Cleveland, Bobby Jones, Edwin Hawkins, Walter Hawkins, Reverend Daryl Coley, Carlton Pearson, Andraé Crouch, and The Staple Singers.