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`Guys and Dolls' a drag when music stops
Frank Loesser's 1952 musical "Guys and Dolls" fondly recalls a New York that really never existed, except in the mind of writer Damon Runyon. Harmless ......(Continue Reading) Billy Corgan: over the years music's most penetrating singer-songwriters have straddled the line between poet and lyricist. With the recent publication
Billy Corgan has sold almost 30 million records, first as one of the founding fellas of alternative rock with Smashing Pumpkins, and most recently with ......(Continue Reading)Music and Musical Ability
Exposure to music and active participation in music making can enrich a child's life both immediately and over the long term, fostering creativity and self-expression, transmitting cultural values, an...(Continue Reading)Isn't it ironic? - Yum-Yum music performers
Yum-Yum is an alternative rock band that had been featured in 'Harper's Magazine.' The stories, which were written by Thomas Frank, focused on the band's ......(Continue Reading)Forever young: Christopher Bray on the greatest ever rock memoir, and a few of its cliche-ridden rivals
"In writing songs," Bob Dylan once said, "I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie." And in writing books, ......(Continue Reading)
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