Music the artform and artists
Odette Gartenlaub, compositrice et pédagogue révolutionnaire
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- Monday, 28 March 2022
Pédagogue de renom, active lors de la grande réforme du solfège en France dans les années 70, Odette Gartenlaub prônait un enseignement de la musique davantage tourné vers la pratique que la théorie. Elle était aussi pianiste célèbre et compositrice.
Los siete hitos que destaca Womad en sus siete años en Chile
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- Monday, 28 March 2022
Quedan menos de 10 días para que Womad vuelva a instalarse en nuestro país como el festival más importante de Músicas del Mundo.
Why Edgar Barrera’s New Era In Latin Music Is His Biggest Yet
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- Tuesday, 15 March 2022
A unique phenomenon occurred on Billboard’s Latin charts in January 2021: Songwriter-producer Edgar Barrera scored No. 1s on the four genre charts: pop, rhythm, tropical and regional Mexican airplay.
George Benson on the future of Jazz
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- Tuesday, 15 March 2022
George Benson has scored number ones, played with musical greats such as Miles Davis, Minnie Riperton and Stevie Wonder, and has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Icon: Carlos Kleiber
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- Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Temperamental, argumentative and angst-ridden in the extreme, Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was, nonetheless, usually photographed smiling, boyishly and charmingly.
La bedroom pop cartonne dans nos playlists
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- Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Galvanisés par Tiktok, de jeunes artistes indépendants rencontrent un succès planétaire avec des morceaux abordant les sujets les plus intimes composés et diffusés depuis leur chambre. Playlist immensément populaire, la bedroom pop est aussi un genre musical qui prône l’authenticité.
10 canciones para descubrir la música actual de Ucrania
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- Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Selección de novedades de Ucrania, donde el pop, el rock, el hip hop o la electrónica suelen contener un marcado acento reivindicativo.
Meet the Organetto, the Original Laptop
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- Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Almost completely forgotten, though, is that an even smaller kind of pipe organ once existed. Called an organetto, it was typically played perpendicularly on a performer’s lap and was one of the most popular instruments in the 13th and the 14th centuries.
The craftsmen and musicians preserving an ancient Middle Eastern instrument
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- Tuesday, 01 March 2022
he oud, a stringed instrument, is believed to date back to around 2350 BC to the Akkadian civilisation located in present-day Iraq. It went on to become a popular musical instrument during the old Babylonian era (1950-1530 BC).
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