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  • Chu Berry LP

    Chu Berry: finest tenor sax voice of the '30s silenced by fatal car crash

    Leon 'Chu' Berry (1908-1941), perhaps one of the most brilliant American tenor sax players, found interest in music at a...
  • Chateau de Fontainebleau

    Influential music teacher Nadia Boulanger considered her music worthless

    Juliette Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) was conductor, composer, and one of the most influential teachers of musical...
  • Audrey Tautou as Amélie Poulain

    Accordion for Amélie was discovered by a lucky accident

    Amélie is a 2001 French romantic comedy classic directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet that depicts a contemporary yet...
  • Akbar and Tansen visit Haridas

    100 years for 1 career: the great artist and teacher Allauddin Khan

    Allauddin Khan was the great Bengali multi-instrumentalist and composer who, to this day, remains one of the most...
  • Douglas, Isle of Man, 1890s

    Fresh take on the The Isle of Man folk tradition

    The Isle of Man, or Mann, is an island in the Irish Sea which small but proud nation can boast a vast cultural heritage...
  • Bulb Fields by Vincent van Gogh

    Ghosts of past wars alive in the Lowlands of Holland

    The Lowlands of Holland is a popular British folk song that depicts a young widow mourning her husband whose ship was...
  • Wynton Marsalis by Luigi Beverelli

    Modern jazz trumpet for gifted Mozart scholar

    Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) was an Austrian composer and outstanding virtuoso pianist during the transition period...
  • Lucca, Italy

    Obscured by Vivaldi, an Italian virtuoso found fans in England

    Francesco Saverio Geminiani—influential Italian violinist, composer, and theorist—was born in 1687 in the scenic town of...
  • Still Life with a Guitar by Juan Gris

    Bebop meets baroque in memorable Collaboration

    Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) is an American musical ensemble noted for their innovations in jazz forms and consistently...
  • William Shakespeare’s original works from 1623

    Full-method approach to the score for Shakespeare's play

    The classic Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice had seen many adaptations, one of them a 2004 venture for the big...
  • Nikhil Banerjee LP

    Humid Kolkata air sways with Nikhil Banerjee's sitar

    Nikhil Banerjee (1931–1986) was an Indian classical musician who emerged as one of the leading masters of the sitar. In...
  • Recuerdos de la Alhambra LP

    Spanish guitar maestro who invented footstool wrote the Nokia tune

    Spanish maestro Francisco Tárrega had a colossal influence on the guitar development—in terms of both technical...
  • Jennifer Higdon by A. Bogard

    The most performed contemporary composer grew up with Bob Marley music

    Jennifer Higdon is a contemporary composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Awards. According to a recent...
  • White Cliffs of Dover by Immanuel Giel

    There were no bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover

    (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover is an iconic song composed in 1941 by the American songwriting...
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Alessandro Scarlatti: Italian opera innovator was lost in history for two centuries

    Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) was among the most important Italian composers of the late Baroque period. His huge...
  • Billie Holiday LP

    Easy Living owes Billie Holiday for giving it voice

    A tender ballad Easy Living has forthright lyrics that declare just how wonderful life can be when living for someone...

  • Sicario's desert pulsates in Jóhannsson's score

    Sicario tells the story of an idealistic FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) who is enlisted by a government official to...
  • Duncan Chisholm

    Scottish fiddle tradition elevated by guitar ornamentation

    Duncan Chisholm is a contemporary Scottish fiddle composer whose interpretations of traditional Highland music are...
  • Invernada del Ejercito Oriental by Cándido Lopez

    The world's first gramophone record for Paraguayan guitar

    South American guitar maestro Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944) was born into a large family with seven sons in the...
  • Christ's Entry into Jerusalem by William Blake

    Prog rock version of Jerusalem was banned by BBC

    Jerusalem is a British national song based on a poem by William Blake printed in 1808. At the heart of the poem is the...

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