Music the artform and artists
Driven Into Paradise
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Fleeing Hitler, émigré musicians created a lasting Hollywood Sound.
Museum shows there's more to Greek music than bouzoukis
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Tucked away in a corner of Athens' historic Plaka district is a small museum showing that there is more to Greek music than "Zorba's Dance" and "Never on Sunday".
Monad Creates Violin of the Future
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Classical music's relationship with the world of sci-fi and fantasy has mostly been in a limited capacity, your standard soundtrack pieces for epic films.
La musique kabyle passée à la loupe
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2015
La richesse musicale se manifeste par cette grande diversité, qui fait que la musique kabyle est un foisonnement de musiques locales très distinctes les unes des autres, malgré leur similitude sur plusieurs plans.
New Talent 2015: Deadline 20 March
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- Friday, 27 February 2015
New Talent was founded in 1969 under the name "International Rostrum for Young Performers" by the Bratislava Music Festival and the International Music Council with a view to promoting the career of talented young performers through broadcasting.
IMC members are entitled to propose candidates!
International Rostrum of Composers: Last Commission on Streaming
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- Friday, 27 February 2015
While his work "ABISMO EL ABISMO" was selected in the under 30 category of the IRC in 2011, the young Argentinean composers Juan Pablo Nicoletti won a commission by IMC in collaboration with Radio France.
How Björk broke the sound barrier
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- Friday, 27 February 2015
With an acclaimed new album, and a MoMA exhibition due next month, the Icelandic star is back. Award-winning music writer Alex Ross traces her musical journey from child prodigy to genre-defying queen of the avant garde.
Radio: How Formats Shaped, Splintered And Remade Pop Music
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- Friday, 27 February 2015
Music critics these days love to argue about "rockism," the unexamined prejudices we bring to our musical judgements, and "poptimism," an effort to celebrate commercial stuff that some think goes way too far.
You Are Guaranteed to Die During This Performance
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- Friday, 27 February 2015
Walk into centuries-old St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt, Germany, and you'll hear an organ playing. The performance comes with a guarantee: You'll be dead before it's over.
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