Music the artform and artists
Cumbia: The Musical Backbone Of Latin America
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- Monday, 11 November 2013
Whether you're in a convenience store in Ushuaia, the southernmost tip of Argentina, Mexico City or East L.A., you're likely to hear cumbia blaring from a stereo.
Glass's Music in 12 Parts - but the audience was just as small
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- Friday, 08 November 2013
So few people went to hear the Philip Glass Ensemble perform in the UK in 1975 that it would probably have been cheaper to fly the audience to New York to hear the group there. Christopher Fox, one of that original handful, reflects how things have changed.
If it's country music and it's Kenya, it must be Elvis
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- Friday, 08 November 2013
Country is the most popular music genre in the US. In Africa, not so much. But here's an exception to that rule.
The 12 Greatest Wagner Singers of All Time
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- Friday, 08 November 2013
The finest exponents of the German master's operas from the 1920s to the present day.
Remembering Mama Africa, Five Years On
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- Friday, 08 November 2013
"I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising" - Miriam Makeba.
What Lou Reed Gave Classical Music
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- Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Lou Reed never dabbled in symphonic music and he steered clear of writing a grandiose rock opera. But the rock 'n' roll iconoclast, who died on Sunday at age 71, was more than punk's most important ancestor.
Growing up without religion in the Soviet Union, believing in jazz
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- Wednesday, 30 October 2013
One of the world's great jazz saxophonists was born in a country that once outlawed the saxophone.
Verve Records and the man who made jazz the sound of America
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- Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Norman Granz, the founder of jazz label Verve, was a divisive figure who did much to end racial segregation in America's concert halls – as well as masterminding the later career of Ella Fitzgerald.
Ukrainian Opera Singer Wins Maria Bieşu Competition
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- Monday, 28 October 2013
Ukrainian opera singer Yulia Tereshchuk became the winner of the first prize at the XXI International Competition of Opera Singers Maria Bieşu in Chișinău, Moldova.
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