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Official! It really is a mad, mad, mad, mad world: dark thoughts about humanity's future don't usually get to the top of the Christmas singles charts.
The Christmas number one can signify not only the taste but also the mood of the nation. Record companies know this, too, and market their product with ......(Continue Reading) Chamber music for the precollege student: "you say tomato, I say tomaahto—let's call the whole thing off!" - Forum focus: collaborative arts
It has been my belief for a long time that the struggles in our world could be solved if everyone in positions of power and authority were required to sing in a choir or play chamber music together...(Continue Reading)The whole world in your hand
Video game players have finally grown up--by shrinking down. Arriving in stores on March 24, the Sony PlayStation Portable is the first-ever hand-held ......(Continue Reading)Tin Pan Alley on the march: popular music, World War II, and the quest for a great war song
In 1941, several months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a new Irving Berlin song appeared on jukeboxes across the United States. Berlin and his sponsors ......(Continue Reading)Branson's best season: come fall in the Missouri Ozarks, the nation's music show capital takes on a special glow
UNLESS YOU'VE BEEN TO Branson, you've probably never heard of Shoji Tabuchi, a master fiddler from Japan who sports spangly jackets and a n]op of black ......(Continue Reading)
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