Music the artform and artists
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In-person performances have been replaced by a deluge of digital ones — live streams and recently unlocked archive recordings — that have made for a calendar hardly less busy than before concert halls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.
The best Arab independent musicians
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- Tuesday, 28 April 2020
If you ever need recommendations on which artists to listen to from the Arabic independent scene, then it’s best to go right to the source.
Why Do We Even Listen to New Music?
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- Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Our brains reward us for seeking out what we already know. So why should we reach to listen to something we don’t?
En musique, la trompette dans tous ses états
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- Tuesday, 28 April 2020
La majesté, la royauté, la force, la virilité... le son de la trompette est souvent associé aux éléments les plus puissants et impressionnants, sans oublier la représentation de la voix de Dieu elle-même !
10 essential Manu Dibango songs
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2020
The late Manu Dibango's career spanned three continents, six decades and many styles, making him a true innovator of African music.
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