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   Technologies

   Innovative Bohemian Rhapsody set new standards for the music video production

   Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is one of the strangest and least-understood songs in the rock genre. It comes across as an…

   June 11, 20181 comment

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   Orchestra

   English Idyll through the eyes of the Lost Generation hero

   Promising English composer George Butterworth appeared to show no interest in writing symphonic music, instead…

   June 10, 2018

3. 

   Orchestra

   Dvorak's string serenade is a mirror of his blissful years

   For Antonin Dvořák, 1875 was a grand time for both creative productivity and wholesome family life. The birth of his…

   June 9, 2018

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   Saxophone

   Nelson's time in the Marines inspired his future composer career

   Oliver Edward Nelson (1932–1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He is best remembered for…

   June 8, 2018

5. 

   Film

   Orlando's director sang the score's leitmotifs

   Sally Potter’s film Orlando follows the life of an eponymous, time traveling, androgynous nobleman who transforms from…

   June 7, 2018

6. 

   Guitar

   Classical flamenco duo rising from Mexican heavy metal band

   Internationally acclaimed Mexican acoustic duo Rodrigo y Gabriela plays unique instrumental blend of flamenco, jazz,…

   June 6, 2018

7. 

   Sitar

   Desh Raag as universal music scale

   Desh Raag is a beautiful and melodious indian classical piece, also called Monsoon Raga, which is often played at night…

   June 5, 20182 comments

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   Songwriter

   Seven Nation Army riff conquers sport and classical music

   It seems that since the initial release of the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army in 2003, the crowds at sporting events…

   June 4, 2018

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   Orchestra

   Famous harp masterpiece was created to show off a new instrument

   François-Adrien Boieldieu's output of instrumental music was initially meager and virtually ceased once he became one…

   June 3, 2018

10. 

    Orchestra

    Comic 'Italienische Serenade' was the end of Hugo Wolf

    The inspiration for the Italian Serenade came to Hugo Wolf from the novella Leben eines Taugenichts by the German…

    June 2, 2018

11. 

    Cello

    Bach's brilliant cello suites survived thanks to Anna Magdalena

    The Bach collection of six suites for solo cello may have been written around 1720 as basic practice pieces intended to…

    June 1, 20181 comment

12. 

    Film

    [H]ouse playlist is a remedy for everyone

    American medical drama House, M.D. is not just an excellent guide to understanding actual diseases, but it also…

    May 28, 2018

13. 

    Viol

    Authentic recreation of Alfonso X El Sabio's medieval works

    Alfonso X el Sabio, byname Alfonso the Wise, or the Learned (1221-1284) was the king of Castile and Leon. Along with…

    May 23, 2018

14. 

    Technologies

    Pi for Piano in A minor

    Everyone knows that Pi is a mathematical symbol representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, but…

    May 22, 2018

15. 

    Songwriter

    MTV and EMI did not appreciate the concept of Kate Bush's iconic Running Up That Hill

    Running Up That Hill, initially titled A Deal with God, is no doubt the most iconic work of Kate Bush which came to…

    May 21, 20181 comment

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    Cello

    The lost Haydn concerto was found among the Czech castle documents

    Cello Concerto in C demonstrates the many facets that are unique to the cello only, from growling low chords to sweet…

    May 20, 20181 comment

17. 

    Orchestra

    Peter Grimes outdoor premiere at Benjamin Britten's home beach

    Despite reports that Benjamin Britten paced nervously at the back of the Sadler’s Wells Theatre when Peter Grimes first…

    May 19, 2018

18. 

    Songwriter

    The swan song of Abbey Lincoln, the voice of human rights

    Abbey Lincoln, born Anna Marie Wooldridge, was a popular American jazz singer who wrote songs about black culture and…

    May 18, 2018

19. 

    Film

    The Blues Brothers' greatest gamble becoming one of their most enduring hits

    The Blues Brothers were once the stars of their era, listed among the most popular groups of the late '70s. Vocalist…

    May 17, 2018

20. 

    Classical Guitar

    Granada: Albéniz's tribute for the city of guitar craft

    The first piano solo of Isaac Albéniz, Suite Española, is probably the first testimony of the artistic renaissance of…

    May 16, 2018