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   Orchestra

   The lively nature of A Color Symphony emerged from the Great War horrors

   A Colour Symphony, dedicated to the legendary conductor Sir Adrian Boult, was the first major orchestral work by the…

   June 16, 2018

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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

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   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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   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

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   Cello

   Classical cello tribute to Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry

   Sheku Kanneh-Mason is one of today’s most exciting young cellists. His 2018 debut album Inspiration featured the…

   May 15, 2018

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   Harp

   The Celtic Baroque roots of Stairway to Heaven

   Irish musician Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) is considered to be a pioneer in blending court music of the Baroque era…

   May 14, 20186 comments

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   Technologies

   Massive Attack to record anniversary album on genetic code

   Massive Attack is known for their innovative approach to producing and promoting music, and even their modern classic…

   May 7, 2018

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   Classical Guitar

   Bacheler's unusually bright lute music depicts Queen Anne of Denmark

   Daniel Bacheler (1572-1619) was an English lutenist and composer. Details of his life were obscure until Anne Batchelor…

   May 2, 2018

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    Fiddle

    The jig dance tradition: five centuries old and still counting

    Jig is a folk dance that became popular in Scotland and northern England in the 16th century and in Ireland in the 18th…

    May 1, 2018

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    Classical Guitar

    Flow, My Tears found popularity after John Dowland gave it lyrics

    Originally composed as an instrumental theme, the lute song Flow, My Tears was created by the English Renaissance…

    April 28, 2018

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    Classical Guitar

    Thomas Morley's legacy in English Renaissance tradition

    The Renaissance composer and organist Thomas Morley (c.1557-1602) is best known as the father of the English madrigal…

    April 24, 2018

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    Orchestra

    Gustav Holst's famous folk suite was dedicated to his students

    Gustavus Theodore von Holst, a highly original and inventive composer, was born in England in 1874. Holst was appointed…

    April 22, 2018

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    Songwriter

    Who is the true architect behind The House of the Rising Sun?

    The authorship of The House of the Rising Sun can not be accurately determined to this day, since the song is a folk…

    April 16, 2018

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    Oboe

    Corelli's famous violin piece rearranged for oboe three centuries later

    One of the seminal figures of early Baroque, Arcangelo Corelli, was the master of violin which supremacy in the…

    April 14, 2018

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    Violin

    Max Richter's modern upgrade of The Four Seasons

    Vivaldi's The Four Seasons could be rightfully called the most noted work of classical music. Contemporary composer Max…

    April 4, 2018

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    Flute

    Bourrée: French folk dance from the Bach suite inspired prog-rock flute and the work of Sir Paul McCartney

    Bourrée is a French folk dance typically danced with quick, skipping steps. The dancers sometimes wear wooden clogs to…

    April 2, 2018

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    Orchestra

    The Third Norfolk Rhapsody, lost a hundred years ago, was reconstructed recently

    Vaughan Williams composed three Norfolk Rhapsodies in 1905 and 1906, shaping them on folk melodies he had gathered…

    March 31, 2018

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    Film

    Paul Reade: the man behind the fresh sound of Jane Eyre

    Paul Reade was an English composer of last century. He worked on the BBC TV in the '60s, becoming the pianist and…

    March 28, 2018

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    Songwriter

    Dazed and Confused: evolution through Led Zeppelin live shows

    Dazed and Confused is the folk-song written by Jake Holmes in 1967. The song was recorded for his debut album and…

    March 26, 2018

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    Orchestra

    Reverie: cello reimagining of Claude Debussy by Julian Lloyd Webber

    Reverie is one of the first works written by Debussy for piano. Even at this early stage of his career, with the style…

    March 23, 2018

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    Orchestra

    Peaceful sound for troubling times in The Lark Ascending

    Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending is a contemplative and tender tone poem composed as a reaction to George Meredith…

    March 19, 2018

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    Festival

    The rise of the Crimson King

    The Stones in the Park generally refers to a free outdoor festival held in Hyde Park on 5 July 1969 that was headlined…

    March 18, 2018

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    Technologies

    Stephen Hawking's message immortalized through the sound of modern pop culture

    Great late Stephen Hawking is known for his extensive work in the fields of quantum physics, focusing on general and…

    March 16, 2018

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    Songwriter

    The Snows They Melt the Soonest survives through folk tradition

    The Snows They Melt the Soonest is a British folk song dating back to at least as far as 1821. It was mentioned, along…

    March 15, 2018

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    Classical Guitar

    Stylistic diversity of acoustic guitar duo Oka Vanga

    Oka Vanga—a play on the name ‘Okavango’, a river delta in Botswana—is the band name for South African born Angela Meyer…

    March 13, 2018

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    Harpsichord

    The Renaissance swan song for the English monarchy

    Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656) was a prominent English composer of the generation that flourished in England in the late…

    March 11, 2018

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    Songwriter

    The Unthanks: keeping with the modern spirit of the English folk song

    The Unthanks is an English group known for their eclectic approach in combining traditional Northumbrian folk with…

    March 10, 2018

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    Football

    Liverpool FC and the famous You'll Never Walk Alone chant in a Pink Floyd track

    You'll Never Walk Alone is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. The song has been…

    March 9, 2018

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    Violin

    Anne Dudley's BAFTA winning work is a marriage of pop and the classical

    Composer, arranger, producer and performer, Anne Dudley is a multi-talented musician whose work encompasses pop and…

    March 8, 2018