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A box of old home movies provides a foil to the hushed voices and mangled guitar riffs on the latest chapter in the Boise, ...

This wonderful commemorative concert, marking the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death, will be hard to surpass ...

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Duke Ellington’s contributions to jazz are immeasurable, and his music remains a beacon of Black excellence. His compositions ...

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An overview of the many uses for the extremely versatile diminished 7th chord and how great composers over the last 6 decades ...

Though Coldplay broke out with a non-piano song, “Yellow,” Chris Martin’s piano riffs became as identifiable as his vocal ...