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Articles with keyword "Music"

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

Four Acrobats, c. 1860.

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Four Acrobats

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

Idaho listens to the songs of its people.

Image of Fats Domino's piano

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"Saving Fats"

Permission to write also comes up in Sam Shepard’s latest book, Day out of Days, a collection of short stories that offers one incredible tale told by a friend of Fats Domino’s bodyguard abou

Photograph by Wing Young Huie

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Minnesota Originals

The Twin Cities host a six-mile-long art gallery.

Mark Twain, on a round-the-world trip

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Mark Twain in Music

A new music CD about Mark Twain is released in Missouri.

Black Swan Records logo from 1921.

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Black Swan Rising

The brief success of Harlem's own record company.

Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

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Why Paris?

Two neighborhoods—Montmartre and Montparnasse—helped shape Picasso and a generation of innovators.