| The music industry fights backThat all time favorite music bandClassical music - the legend lives on | | Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 9:55:31 AM by Rose Martins | Classical music is about more than just music, it's about history. The famous composers of classical music have definitely transcended the generations of time. 
Their legend and legacy lives on way beyond the years of their lives, and probably will continue to live on forever. Any great musician would have first learned the classics before moving on to a particular musical genre.
I am sure it's not easy to find someone in the western world who has never heard of Beethoven, Bach, Hayden and Tchaikovsky. The music of Beethoven and Bach has even been adapted for babies.
And it's not just through music that the lives of these famous classical composers have been recorded. There are scores of books detailing their lives and the history of their musical compositions. The compositions of famous classical music composers are played freely on classical music radio and TV stations, and live in theatres and at classical concerts worldwide.
A quick, simple search online will result in a myriad of classical music download options. Classical music is not only limited to the music of band instruments, the piano, the violin, the cello, the flute……. There is also classical music adapted for the guitar, classical and electric.
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| | | Arts: Johnson s Voice Brings Together Classical, Jazz, Spiritual | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 3:10:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | Candace Johnson can belt out a Mozart opera aria with the soul of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. A chancellor's postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley's music department, Johnson dazzled an audience at her debut vocal recital on campus in September. Johnson, 33, infuses classical music with jazz, spiritual, and improvisational elements in a repertoire rich with African-American art songs. “I sing the music that represents what I have to say," Johnson said. Her latest program, which consisted of works by African-American composers, gave her that very opportunity. “I enjoy singing all classical music, and I chose to specialize in works by African-American composers," she said. “This body of literature is rich and beautiful, but unfortunately is infrequently performed." One series of songs, entitled “Three Dream Portraits," includes verses written by Langston Hughes.... | |
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| | | The New Face of Classical Music | | Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:50:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fulton Ferry Landing always teems with life, mixed with the ghost of Walt Whitman, lines from whose poetry are forged into the iron railings, and the victims of September 11, 2001, whose spirits forever hover just across the river. Sunday afternoon, Bedrich Smetana's febrile Piano Trio was the centerpiece of an impassioned program of chamber works aboard Brooklyn's Bargemusic, moored at the landing. Even in the rain, a rock band was wrapping up a performance just in time to restore a sense of watery tranquility as a backdrop. Three very experienced musicians presented three exceptional trios. Violinist Ilya Kaler is a professor at DePaul, while cellist Eugene Osadchy and pianist Daredjan Baya Kakouberi both teach in Texas. All three are migrs from the former Soviet Union, a place of seemingly limitless hordes of fine musicians who have blanketed Western Europe, America, and Latin America in recent years with high quality music-making and a deeply ingrained sense of Classical tradition.... | |
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| | | Fortuna Classical Music Announces Podcast Service Through Partnership With San Diego Opera | | Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 3:10:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | Fortuna Classical Music is proud to announce a partnership with San Diego Opera to host all video podcasts. Podcasts and video podcasts are multimedia files that can be accessed over the internet which allow users to listen or view to them via their computers or on a portable multimedia device. For the 2007 season, Fortuna Classical Music created 5 video podcast "shows" about each of San Diego Opera's mainstage productions. These podcasts are hosted by San Diego Opera Geisel Director of Education and Outreach, Dr. Nicolas Reveles. This partnership with Fortuna Classical Music has eliminated the need for more computer storage space and increased ease of use for San Diego Opera patrons. "With Fortuna hosting our podcasts, it has greatly increased our effectiveness by allowing more viewers to learn about opera," commented Dr.... | |
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| | | Bravo! | Classical music news and events | | Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 9:03:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | A rare event: premieres of Haitian music by composer and conductor Maestro Levy, musical director of Symphony of the Americas, the host institution for the performances by Italian ensemble I Musici Estenci, under Levy's baton. The Friends of Haiti Benefit Concert, with preconcert Haitian musical ensembles and exhibit of Haitian art, is at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts's Amaturo Theater, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets from $45; $65 tickets include post-concert reception with Haitian cuisine. Call 954-462-0222 or visit www.browardcenter.org. I Musici Estenci will perform its touring program of music from the Baroque to the contemporary at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, 1650 Harrison St., Hollywood. Tickets begin at $10, available at 954-924-8175.... | |
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| | | How NRI dancers adapt classical style for West | | Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 11:10:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW DELHI: Bharatanatyam performed to jazz music in flowing red gowns and a collaboration between Kathak and tap dancers – these are how some dancers from the Indian diaspora have adapted classical Indian dance to appeal to Western audiences, says a noted expert. There are numerous examples of non-resident Indians (NRIs) who have promoted and popularised classical Indian dance on foreign shores, said Sunil Kothari, dance scholar, critic and visiting faculty at various universities in India and abroad. In an illustrated lecture on Thursday on ‘Indian diaspora and performing arts with reference to classical Indian dance', he said: “Indian dancers who have taken classical dance to the international arena have often adapted their style to suit Western audiences." A stunning example of this was the mother-daughter duo – Rani and Aparna Ramaswamy – who have performed the classical Indian dance style of Bharatnatyam, which has its origins in Tamil Nadu, in red flowing gowns to jazz music by Billi Holiday.... | |
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