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Lust for life: emigrating from Italy in the early 1900s, the Jacuzzi brothers were soon renowned for inventions that provided luxury and comfort to people
Italians have always had a lust for life, evidenced by the exports that we Americans have so heartily embraced: scrumptious foods and wines, fast sport ......(Continue Reading) Touching lives with music
My role model, as a piano teacher, was my mother, who died fifteen years ago at age 85. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of her birth, I embarked ......(Continue Reading)Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese
Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese Sheila Melvin and Jindong Cai. New York, NY: Algora Publishing, 2004.362 pp. $33.00 hardcover....(Continue Reading)A long time coming: Harry Belafonte's glorious music history lesson - history of African American music
Why didn't The Long Road to Freedom release as planned? Harry Belafonte: The piece was made possible because of an alliance that RCA had with Reader's ......(Continue Reading)Another history of bluegrass: the segregation of popular music in the United States, 1820-1900 - 1
Categories in any case are never watertight, but flow ceaselessly into one another.... Musical interactions do not occur at random, but are indicators ......(Continue Reading)
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