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Artist Essentials
10/26/2010
Over the years, Gregory Isaacs released so much material it's hard to know where to begin, which makes our selection of his killer tracks the perfect key to unlocking his legend. Isaacs represented a o …
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Artist Essentials
10/26/2010
They nicknamed +dith Piaf "The Little Sparrow," an ironic moniker because the power of her voice could knock down walls, despite her tiny stature. Piaf was the greatest chansonnier who ever lived, capa …
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Genres & History
10/26/2010
The Renaissance (1450-1600) was a time of innovation and discovery. While Galileo busied himself with the choreography of the solar system, Palestrina, Monteverdi, and their contemporaries began to unr …
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My Groove
10/26/2010
As we clear the table and break out the coffee at evening's end, our Deep Cuts offers some of your favorite artists and your favorite songs . . . in ways you've never heard them before. The Sundays fus …
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My Groove
10/26/2010
The table is set, the Champagne is chilling, and the veal piccata is quietly bubbling in the saucepan. But your dinner party is still missing one key ingredient: the ideal music. If, as Shakespeare sug …
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Genres & History
10/26/2010
As you can tell from our journey, chamber music turns out to mean very different things to different composers, as it makes its journey from antiquity to the modern day. For those of you who think Scho …
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Genres & History
10/26/2010
It was just about a 100 years ago that composer Richard Henry Walthew coined perhaps the best simple description of chamber music, a form that had already been around for more than 300 years: "t …
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Genres & History
10/26/2010
Wielding his pen like a sword, an angry and indignant Bob Dylan plays the avenging angel in "Hurricane," taking up the cause of imprisoned boxer Rubin Carter with a breathless track capped by Scarlet R …
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Genres & History
10/26/2010
As the '60s came to a close, singer-songwriters turned away from counter-cultural chaos, retreating into themselves, their pensive, introspective songs applying a much-needed alternative to the big, th …
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