Music the artform and artists
Who's Thinking About Retirement?
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- Monday, 04 August 2014
The Newport Jazz Festival turns 60. Even though Newport inspired thousands of other festivals, both jazz and otherwise, around the world, it remains a unique event in the cultural landscape.
Was heavy rock born 50 years ago?
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- Monday, 04 August 2014
The Kinks' You Really Got Me was released 50 years ago today. Was this the birth of heavy rock?
Planet Opera: Japan
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- Monday, 04 August 2014
Japan's capital has various venues where opera is given, even if there is not a resident company.
Your artists are our artists
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- Monday, 04 August 2014
Festivals, especially the ones with remarkable performances, embed themselves in our memories.
Le monde des musiques du monde
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- Monday, 04 August 2014
Les retrouvailles de Tony Allen et Damon Albarn, le jazz afro-latin d'Arturo O'Farrill et le Pérou psyché du Cumbia All Stars, c'est le tour du monde musical.
If You Want to Sing Opera, Learn German
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- Tuesday, 22 July 2014
According to the opera statistics website Operabase, last year 7,230 opera performances took place in Germany, one-third of the world's total.
Lost & Found in America
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- Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Pops concerts these days are an anything-goes experience: video-game nights, the "20 Tenors," your fill-in-the-blank crossover act. But in the first decades of the 20th century, the sensational sound of classical-meets-popular music was all the rage.
Tunisie: La Tunisie promeut la paix à travers la musique
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- Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Le Festival international d'Hammamet, qui jouit d'une grande popularité en Tunisie, souffle cette années ses cinquante bougies en prônant la paix, la tolérance religieuse et l'unité.
Revival Revival
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- Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Mid-century Blues obsessives are getting a lot of attention lately.
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