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What are the ingredients that make a song a jazz standard? There is no fixed recipe but a complex mixture of musical influences (harmony, melody, and rhythm).
Many standards were not written especially for jazz and for this reason it would be more correct to speak of “Great American Songbook”.
Salvatore Accardo gave his first professional recital at the age of 13, in a program that included Paganini’s Capricci. At the age of 15, Accardo won the Geneva Competition and in 1958 he became the first winner of the Paganini Competition in Genoa. His vast repertoire ranges from pre-bach to post-Berg; composers such as Sciarrino,…
He is perhaps best known for composing the fanfare which accompanies the studio logo at the beginning of 20th Century Fox’s productions. Newman was highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charles Chaplin, and Irving Berlin.
No one, including Maurice Ravel himself, could have predicted that this orchestral piece would be so popular. Ravel referred to his creation as follows: «This is not music at all». For Ravel «Bolero» became the peculiar work – and perhaps in this «not-music» we will find a solution to the life and fate of the…
as soon as I had resigned my post of “teacher” a prestigious international publisher (Edition Universal Wien) came knocking at my door and signed me for all the works that I would write from 1924 to 1930 […]. To be associated with a publisher who was both able and attentive and held the keys of international music meant not to rot and not having to succumb to our [Italian] musical environment. In fact, between 1924 and 1932 I lived intensely in the world of Music without ever concerning myself with these “machinations” that destroy the serenity and corrupt the musician”.
Kubrick’s name has permanently stuck in the history of cinema, because the director of his projects completely changed the whole film industry! From science fiction to some anti-war drama. Kubrick’s work features original and fast mounting transitions, strong panning motion and scaling, and the use of classical music as a soundtrack (sometimes he even built archetypes of his characters around this music).
Dearest friends! In July 2021, we started with “The New Album of the Week,” putting on the top of the Facebook page the newly chosen album. The goal of this project is to bring attention to new, remarkable audio CDs by performers of classical and contemporary academic music on our website and social networks. Almost a year later, the project expanded and enriched with many interesting novelties of academic music, jazz, and avant-garde performed by the outstanding musicians of the world.
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One of the most prominent representatives of expressionism in music, Berg expressed in his work the characteristic thoughts, feelings, and images of expressionist artists: dissatisfaction with social life, feelings of powerlessness, and loneliness. The hero of his works is a small man driven to despair by the hostile environment of bourgeois society. The breeding ground for such artistic representations of the world was generously given to the composer by life itself.
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis was found to be nearly complete in Buenos Aires in 2008. This find not only brought back long-lost footage that brought the movie closer to its Berlin debut in 1927, but it also brought back the design of intertitles that were assumed to have been lost forever. The most significant of these,…