Music the artform and artists
Neil Young, influenceur absolu de la musique électrique
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- Tuesday, 08 December 2020
Vingt-cinq ans après Mirror Ball, foudroyant album enregistré avec Pearl Jam, Neil Young reste le parangon de la décharge électrique et de la ballade acoustique pour toute une génération de songwriters. Une figure moderne de la culture populaire.
“¡La-Ro-sa-lí-a!”: por qué los cantantes de música urbana no dejan de repetir su propio nombre en las canciones
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- Tuesday, 08 December 2020
Es una costumbre antigua (que hasta Sabina parodió), pero con la popularización mundial de la música urbana latina se ha hecho omnipresente: los artistas dicen su nombre como un mantra durante los tres minutos que dura una canción.
Why Do Pianists Know So Little About Pianos?
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- Monday, 23 November 2020
Unlike violinists or trumpeters, piano players rarely get to perform on their own instruments and must be adaptable.
Philip Glass and ‘Einstein on the Beach’: How one opera changed everything
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- Monday, 23 November 2020
Easily the most important opera of the last half century, “Einstein on the Beach,” at least at first, meant far more to those who witnessed it than to the art form itself, which couldn’t have cared less. Almost nothing about what composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson put onstage was opera.
He Helps Folk Musicians Stay Alive
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- Monday, 23 November 2020
India’s countless folk communities are in dire need of funding and technical and creative upskilling to relativize themselves in an increasingly globalized world.
Comment Stevie Wonder est devenu le premier geek de la musique pop
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- Monday, 23 November 2020
La légende de la soul fête ses 70 ans, l'occasion rêvée pour revenir sur son ADN musical très expérimental et technologique.
Milli Vanilli: la historia del fraude más grosero de la música pop
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- Monday, 23 November 2020
El dúo pera un invento de marketing: no sabían cantar ni tocar instrumentos. En un hecho único, les revocaron el Premio Grammy que ganaron. Uno de ellos tuvo un trágico final.
Five songs that defined Sudan's golden era
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- Tuesday, 10 November 2020
Many of the hits from 1960s and 1970s Sudan were resurrected during the protests that erupted two years ago.
The Woman Who Built Beethoven’s Pianos
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- Monday, 09 November 2020
Nannette Streicher has been marginalized by history, but she was one of Europe’s finest keyboard manufacturers.
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