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Category: Music

Posted on 2025-01-142025-01-14

Caterina Valente: A true cosmopolitan

This article was published on January 14, 2025, the day Caterina Valente would have celebrated her 94th birthday. There were few singers whose voice was …

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Posted on 2024-05-262024-05-26

Glenn Miller: His vision of swing

Writing an arrangement was the best way for him to express himself as a musician: With his swing arrangements, Glenn Miller shaped the world of …

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Posted on 2024-01-272024-01-27

Charles Trenet: His chansons tell stories

There are melodies and lyrics that one never forgets: La mer by Charles Trenet is without question one of these melodies and lyrics. Like no …

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Posted on 2024-01-082024-01-08

Dmitri Shostakovich: The musical bridge builder

“Dmitri is a good name. We’ll call him Dmitri,” the priest present at Dmitri Shostakovich’s baptism is said to have decided. His parents actually wanted …

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Posted on 2023-12-182023-12-17

Rose Laurens: The French chanson of the 1980s

In the winter of 1983, it was the song Africa that got people dancing in France: to this day, Rose Laurens is best known for …

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Posted on 2023-12-092023-12-09

Enrico Caruso: The Napoleon of the gramophone

The name Enrico Caruso is synonymous with the art of opera: telling an opera singer that he “sounds like Caruso” is probably the greatest compliment …

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Posted on 2023-12-032023-12-03

Ricky Nelson: His singing even fascinated John Wayne

If one wants to tell the story of rock’n roll, one cannot leave out his name: before Elvis Presley or the Beatles dominated show business, …

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Posted on 2023-11-192023-11-19

Scott Joplin: The origins of Jazz

When the term ragtime is mentioned, one inevitably thinks of an unmistakable musician who invented the ragtime genre: The composer and pianist Scott Joplin (1867/68 …

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Posted on 2023-11-172023-11-20

Tony Bennett: He carried jazz into the 21st century

Tony Bennett was taught bel canto at the Lee Strasberg School in New York: But he had no intention of becoming an opera singer. Rather, …

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Posted on 2023-11-122023-11-12

Victoria de los Ángeles: An angelic voice (2.)

Continued from part one In his biography of Victoria de los Ángeles, Peter Roberts explains the great contrast between the worlds from which the singer …

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