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Articles with keyword "Music"

Book cover with image of Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five

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Vaudevillian Jazzman

Louis Armstrong's "clarinetisms."

Composer John Cage, center, in 1991

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Cagey Cage

Marching to the beat of a silent drummer.

Poster of opera singer Emma Calve

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Tales of the Parisian Opera

This diva was the real deal

French singer/songwriter Leo Ferre

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Liberating Experience

The music of protest

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Vodka in South Bend

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

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

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

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

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Tenor of the Times

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