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Big band
The Stride Piano founder left nightclubs in favor of symphonic music
James P. Johnson has secured an honorable place in jazz music history as one of the most gifted piano players and...
Violin
Sweet little waltz from a traveling Swedish fiddler
Early Swedish music was primarily characterized by ballads and kulning, songs typically sung by women for the purpose of...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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 a...
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, and...
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...
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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...
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 of...
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...
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...
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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 contains...
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 his...
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...
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 life...
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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...
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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...
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...
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