Music the artform and artists
Bland on Blonde: why the old rock music canon is finished
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
The 1970s brought about the idea that rock was important – and needed a canon of greatest albums to match. But in a digital age, is definitive musical excellence a ridiculous notion?
Plácido Domingo, Opera Superstar, Achieves the Unthinkable
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
The great tenor Enrico Caruso sang about 60 roles; the storied diva Maria Callas, roughly 50. Renée Fleming, the most famous soprano today, says she has sung about 55.
John Coltrane and the End of Jazz
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
No jazz musician incarnates the legend of late style more than the saxophonist John Coltrane.
Smithsonian Folkways: 70 Years of Peerless Sounds
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
In 1846, the Smithsonian Institution was founded for one purpose, laid down by donor James Smithson in his last will and testament: for “the increase and diffusion of knowledge.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Genius Composer, Named Asian Filmmaker of the Year
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
The festival hailed Sakamoto for his “sheer amount of time, effort, and passion.” It described him as “deeply admired and loved by the public as an artist who remains a prominent musician in the history of world cinema.”
Centenaire de la naissance de Leonard Bernstein
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
Chef d'orchestre, compositeur, pianiste, pédagogue, animateur de télévision, Bernstein est devenu une légende de la musique.
Defying the odds, this Egyptian orchestra plays on
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- Wednesday, 22 August 2018
The 44 women who make up the orchestra play eastern and western tunes to perfection – and all without the ability to see the conductor or read the music.
The Sounds of Music in the Twenty-first Century
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- Wednesday, 22 August 2018
Contemporary composition has become as fractured as the art world—and that’s a good thing.
The State of Hip-Hop: East Asia
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- Wednesday, 22 August 2018
Different cities. Different countries. Different cultures. Different continents. No matter where I went, a different kind of hip-hop existed.
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