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Articles with keyword "Music"

Poster of opera singer Emma Calve

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Tales of the Parisian Opera

By Steve Moyer

This diva was the real deal

French singer/songwriter Leo Ferre

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Liberating Experience

By Steve Moyer

The music of protest

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Vodka in South Bend

By Joseph Horowitz

Russian music and mentoring create an unlikely colony of artists.

Zither from the collections of the German American Heritage Center

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German American Heritage Center

By Steve Moyer

The zither, commonly found in southern Germany and other parts of alpine Europe, produces the “oompahs” so typical of German folk music.

Image of choreographer Jerome Robbins rehearsing dancers.

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Dancing American

By Pia Catton

Jerome Robbins built a new style from classical and modern parts.

James Leve

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Impertinent Questions with James Leve

On the composers of Cabaret and Chicago.

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Black Mozart

By James Williford

A Pennsylvania scholar brings new interest to the composer known as the Black Mozart.

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Tenor of the Times

By Steve Moyer

In an otherworldly black-and-white photo taken in midtown Manhattan by renowned jazz photographer William Gottlieb on a rainy night in July 1948, jam-packed neon signs shine brightly along both sides

Four Acrobats, c. 1860.

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Four Acrobats

By James Williford

Four Acrobats, the mid nineteenth-century Indian miniature, was once part of an ordered series of paintings, each of which corresponded to one of the melodic modes—or rāga—of classical Indian music.

Pete Seeger

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Songs of the Times

By Amy Lifson

Idaho listens to the songs of its people.