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It Happened This Month - events in music history and music personalities
Byline: CHRIS KELSEY May On 5/1/1786 Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro debuted in Vienna... On the same day in 1967, the great tenor Elvis Presley ......(Continue Reading) The Songfinder: a reader-assisted song search service
This will be my last appearance as "The Songfinder." I'd always expected to carry on at least long enough to go into syndication, but my professional ......(Continue Reading)What is "American" Music?
A colleague recently asked me what makes the music of Aaron Copland sound "American." After rattling off obvious biographical facts about Copland that ......(Continue Reading)Yankee Doodle Discs. - Review - sound recording reviews
The New York Philharmonic has released another of its "special editions," this one a boxed set of ten compact discs devoted to American music. It is ......(Continue Reading)USA Network's Nashville Star Narrows Thousands of Contestants to Ten Finalists for Third Season; Country Music Talent Search Premieres Tuesday, March 1,
NEW YORK, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- All ten finalists have been named for the third season of USA Network's Nashville Star, a grassroots nationwide talent ......(Continue Reading)
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