Music the artform and artists
Mory Kanté, un «griot électrique»
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Le Guinéen, qui a marié son séculaire héritage aux musiques noires américaines, a connu un succès fulgurant avec «Yeke Yeke». Il est mort ce vendredi.
Del tango al rock, diez canciones inspiradas en Buenos Aires
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Desde la década del 20, cuando Carlos Gardel grabó el tango escrito por Manuel Romero titulado directamente con su nombre hasta hoy, son muchos los artistas argentinos y extranjeros que le rindieron tributo a una ciudad bella, cambiante, cosmopolita y siempre llena de historias que merecen ser contadas.
From Xenakis’s UPIC to Graphic Notation Today
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- Tuesday, 12 May 2020
In the late 70s, an interdisciplinary team led by the composer Iannis Xenakis developed the compositional tool UPIC out of an effort to transform drawings into synthesized sound.
Where to Start With Afrobeat Pioneer Tony Allen, One of the Greatest Drummers Ever
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- Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Allen introduced the mind-blowing polyrhythms that would define Afrobeat music as much as Fela’s saxophone or outsized personality.
Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar
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- Tuesday, 12 May 2020
We are, then, still not so far from the orchestra envisioned by Berlioz. “The most recalcitrant temperaments,” he wrote, “would shudder at the sight of its surging crescendo, like the roar of an immense and sublime conflagration!”
The Day the Live Concert Returns
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- Tuesday, 12 May 2020
There is nothing like the energy and atmosphere of live music. It is the most life-affirming experience, to see your favorite performer onstage, in the flesh, rather than as a one-dimensional image glowing in your lap as you spiral down a midnight YouTube wormhole.
Idir, le géant kabyle en 10 chansons
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- Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Idir était connu pour son engagement pour la culture berbère qu’il a sublimée sur les scènes internationales à travers sa musique empreinte de nostalgie et d’émotion.
The Coronavirus hasn't slowed classical music
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- Tuesday, 28 April 2020
In-person performances have been replaced by a deluge of digital ones — live streams and recently unlocked archive recordings — that have made for a calendar hardly less busy than before concert halls closed.
How Highlife Continues to Influence a New Generation of Ghanaian Music
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- Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Ghanaian legends and new stars tell us how highlife has influenced the country's new wave.
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