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Evolution of Music is a complicated concept to demonstrate. It attempts to focus on the genres and the personalities that resonate with the audience at a given moment in time. It sheds light on the timelessness captured in the music through the assessment of music connoisseurs, music critics, radio and
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In the book, Music Divided- Bartók’s Legacy in the Cold War Culture, Danielle Fosler Lussier discusses Béla Bartók’s music, one of the contemporary musicians during Emmerich Kálmán’s time, and how it played out in different milieus. Although, he wasn’t an Operetta composer, being one of the
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Setting the Stage In Anna E Nekola and Tom Wagner Edited Congregational Music- Making and Community in a Mediated Age, Andrew Mall writes on the Annual Christian Music and Arts Festival, aka the Cornerstone Festival in the popular vocabulary, which was held in the month of July at rural Western
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In my many years of concert going, I have yet to come across a recital that works as well as Pallavi Mahidhara’s written to Mumbai on 8th December 2015. She has everything that her huge and much exalted bio-data promises and even more hints for the future. I would
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Bombay has an earnest but limited audience for Western classical music – unless the best known ambassador for it comes to the city. When Zubin Mehta stages here, he has a “bass” which is wider than the familiar, oft-seen music lovers and the audience “trebles” in numbers. October 26th, 2015 was
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Mahler’s one-movement Piano Quartet in A Minor was composed during Mahler’s days as a student in 1876. In this piece, especially in the very beginning, there was this strong,familiar flavour of Metamorphosis by Philip Glass. I won’t be surprised if Glass was inspired by Mahler’s