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Popular Music

October 4, 2009 by Classical Music · Leave a Comment 

Music occupies an important place in our life. We can’t live without it. Actually people have different musical tastes depending on their age, education and even mood. Some people like classical music, other s prefer rock, pop or jazz, but nobody is indifferent to it. Popular Music refers to the kind of music that appeals to the general public, unlike Highbrow or Classical. It places a premium on accessibility, employs various means to boost both instant appeal and memorability – disti

Music post: classical music’s core repertory

October 2, 2009 by Classical Music · Leave a Comment 

If all I wanted to play on my weekend radio show was classical music’s core repertory, I probably wouldn’t do a show at all. I could listen to everybody else’s show. “Howard’s Day Off” is usually replete with modern stuff, with cross-references to jazz and rock. In June I devoted the entire month to American composers, [...]

DUBLAB: MORNING BECOMES… EROTIC

September 30, 2009 by Classical Music · Leave a Comment 

dan monickDownload: Marco Paul “The Heavenly Music Corporation”(for a complete play list please visit dublab.com)For ten years, since the days when ‘Internet radio’ was as futuristic a concept as the electric car, dublab has been adding color, texture and depth to music in Los Angeles and the world beyond. Hip-hop and soul and jazz and psych and punk and folk and cosmic genius and more—whether from L.A., from deep history or from someplace no one’s even sure about—all find a permanent home at du

City Arts, my jazz-in-the-City column

September 23, 2009 by Classical Music · Leave a Comment 

Welcome to City Arts , which bucks a trend by evolving from being a monthly section in NYPress and other Manhattan neighborhood free papers to becoming New York's Review of Culture, a new twice-monthly stand-alone print edition and website. Beside my column , there are season previews of classical music, mustn't miss museums exhibits ( Kandinsky ! Blake ! Monet! O'Keefe! ), books , dance , theater , and lesser known film series . Welcome to the fray, brave young journal, and may you th

All-stars assemble to bring Cleveland-style jazz to WMU

September 12, 2009 by Classical Music · Leave a Comment 

By Garret Schuelke Western Herald The Cleveland Jazz All-Stars will play their very first public performance in the Dalton Center Recital Hall Sunday, Sept. 13, and 7 p.m. The members, who all have roots in Cleveland, grew up and left their hometown in order to establish careers in music and other fields. “[It’s] people who know the town,” said trombonist and educator, Jiggs Whigham. “That’s what’s so fascinating about this group.” The idea to form such a group came up when Whigha

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