National Jazz Appreciation Month in Philly
The second annual celebration is both hip and historical, keeping the jazz beat alive. City officials and local music organizers today encouraged residents, from ages 9 to 90, to “put some swing in...
View ArticlePopular Jazz and Swing: America’s Original Art Form
(The following is excerpted from the U.S. Department of State publication, American Popular Music.) Jazz music was the anthem for the first well-defined American youth culture. Rebelling against the...
View ArticleSweden’s Loreen Won With the Song “Euphoria” in Eurovision
The 28-year-old pop singer Sweden’s Loreen won with the song “Euphoria” in the annual competition – Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in an extravagantly illuminated 23,000-seat “Crystal Hall”...
View ArticleWWFM Enters Philadelphia Market with HD Signal
WWFM The Classical Network has returned its programming to the Philadelphia market, bringing the Central Jersey station within reach of more people than any classical music station in the U.S. The...
View Article“Sexual Aggression” Of NikitA
NikitA is the most unusual Ukrainian music bands, as their specified theme of music is “Sexual Aggression”. The band released their little known single “Mashyna” (Machine) in 2008. Nikitin’s idea to...
View ArticleMusical Instrument “Passport” Will Speed Travel, Protect Wildlife
Musicians who use instruments that legally contain endangered wildlife products such as Brazilian rosewood or elephant ivory will now have an easier time crossing international borders with a...
View ArticleLast Call at the Downbeat Jazz Bridge
In November, 1942, 25-year-old trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie is in Philadelphia leading his own quartet at the Downbeat Club. He’s just been fired by big bandleader Lucky Millinder after a stint at the...
View ArticleOh Sweet Lorraine – A Most Touching & Heartbreaking Tribute Love Song
“Oh Sweet Lorraine”, a most touching & heartbreaking tribute love song had written by 96-year-old Fred Stobaugh from Peoria after his 91-year-old wife died last April. He isn’t a musician, but the...
View ArticleLon Van Eaton, Producer Has Relocated To New Hope
Lon Van Eaton, Produced by George Harrison on the Beatles’ Apple label has relocated to New Hope, PA Writer, producer, recording artist Lon Van Eaton (best remembered for his ground-breaking album,...
View ArticleOpera: Premiere of Svadba – Wedding by Ana Sokolovic
November production, presented in collaboration with FringeArts, is made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Opera Philadelphia is once again expanding its civic footprint – and its...
View ArticleHip-Hop: From the Streets to the Mainstream
Hip-hop is more than just music. The term encompasses a whole culture, and that helps explain how it has become one of the most influential elements shaping global entertainment and youth...
View ArticleChristmas Spirit Sings in Bethlehem Main Street Flash Mob
A flash mob chorus of more than 100 people literally stopped traffic at Main and Market streets in the historic downtown Saturday night to sing the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah. Out of a...
View ArticleNew SME Acquisition Deal Brings All PIR Recordings Together
Sony Music Entertainment has completed a historic deal with Philadelphia International Records, securing global ownership of all recordings made for PIR, the groundbreaking hit-making label founded by...
View ArticleInstruments And Order: In Search Of “Nature Music”
What is nature’s voice? Does it understand harmony or know melody? Can nature sing? During the early 19th century, many inventors and acousticians were fascinated by the idea of harnessing natural...
View ArticleViolinist Philippe Quint Receives Arts Award
Violinist Philippe Quint was awarded the Ambassador of Arts Award at the 16th Anniversary Gala Banquet of the Gateways Organization celebrating The Brownstone Experience. The banquet, held in the...
View ArticleEstonian’s U.S. Visit Helped Create Baltic’s Biggest Jazzfest
Over the past 25 years, Jazzkaar in Tallinn, Estonia, has become the biggest jazz festival in the Baltic countries, attracting both famous artists and undiscovered talent. For 10 days each year, more...
View ArticleA New Breed of Outdoor Movie Has Been Popping up Across The Nation
VOA More than half a century ago, there were 4000 drive-in movie theaters in the United States, and watching a movie from your car was a popular way to spend an evening. But with the number of...
View ArticlePair of #1 Sound Of Philadelphia Classics Also Among Hundreds of TSOP Hits
More than a generation since The Sound of Philadelphia was a chart-topping, worldwide hit-making machine, legendary producer-songwriters and TSOP architects Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff have another #1...
View ArticleFrank Sinatra Remembered in Small Hometown
VOA Victoria Kupchinetsky, Ramon Taylor Before singer Frank Sinatra became a global household name, he was a local boy from a small New Jersey town across the river from Manhattan. In that town —...
View ArticleRolling Stones to Play Free Concert in Cuba
VOA News Legendary British rock band The Rolling Stones will play a free concert in Cuba on March 25, a milestone event in a country where the communist government once banned the group’s music as an...
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