And in a sidestep into the mechanics of sound and music theory, he explains that a good violin has a lot of overtones: the fundamental, or primary, note when ... in the sheet music for a 1910 ...

Czech shoegaze between the East and the West, Miloš Hroch recalls the time Vyškov na Moravě band Here (almost) took London by storm ...

The prolific German composer Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847) wrote some 450 works - "but many were published under her ...

To the editor: The meeting of Nathaniel Ayers and Steve Lopez is one of my all-time favorite L.A. stories (“20 years and counting: How a chance encounter with a street musician led to a lasting ...

The scene shows bandmaster Wallace Hartley leading his fellow musicians in playing as the doomed ocean liner goes down.

Michael Oser wrote a thoughtful letter about a woman who wrote an ugly, racist comment about her server in a Mexican restaurant. The problem was both he and the Dispatch, in its headline ...

Instead of 40 letters, mine seem to be 40 cheery little notes. Certainly, a call would be easier, a text would be faster, and either of those would give me an immediate response. But we know from ...

"For music to survive and continue to thrive and grow, you need the feeder venues. They need the smaller venues, and you need the venues like the Blue Note. It's important for the music." ...

We have got the message, loud and clear. Advertisement Hang on, lemme just make a note here. NO. MORE. LETTERS. Got it. I’m sure you remember what I’m talking about. If you need a refresher ...

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