Next time you see someone at the back of the orchestra with their many percussion instruments, take a moment to thank these masters of rhythm and timbre as part of the music you love.
The show charts the journey of a group of young men aged between 19 and 23 through a strict, 100-day training process, leading to their debut as a band called Dear Alice.
Allowing students to use different forms of media can help with class presentations.
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Students can play to their strengths in this anthropology course designed to teach them how to present research findings in ways other than a peer-reviewed paper.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has now announced it was an error to cancel a performance by Jayson Gillham. Indeed, classical music has often been tied to politics.
Vernon Dalhart was a widely recorded singer in the early 20th century.
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Even though I’ve seen these films many times, and listened to their soundtracks countless times too, I am still willing to pay to revisit them with a live orchestra.
Rather than offering authenticity and inviting her fans into her life, Katy Perry’s latest single reproduces and in fact exaggerates the same persona that fuelled her earlier success.
Missy Elliott’s music tells stories of Black cyborgs, space-time travel and postapocalyptic worlds.
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The six-time platinum-selling artist invites fans into an imagined future that celebrates Blackness and queerness.
Members of the al-Basra band play music in Basra, southern Iraq. The city boasts a rich musical heritage with several traditional styles.
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Founder and driving force of the brilliant and influential Dunedin band The Chills, Martin Phillipps defined a sense of time and place in New Zealand’s southernmost city.
Musicians often face suspicions when they openly support charity causes. However, if they do this regularly, advocacy could enhance their popularity and music sales.
(L-R) Bram Stoker, Taylor Swift and Mary Shelley.
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