Before Django Reinhardt, the guitar served primarily as a rhythm and accompaniment instrument in jazz and popular music. In the 1930s, Reinhardt dramatically reshaped its role as a lead instrument....
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“People often ask me, what are the sources of inspiration? And I say all of life is inspiration. Like beauty, it is in the eye of the beholder. They can...
Shostakovich’s student years 1923-1925 would prove to be a uniquely fertile time for his emergence as a true modernist composer. Later he would come under the intense scrutiny of the...
In late 2024, I first heard about a forthcoming string octet by John Novacek, Music for 8. As an admirer of John’s music, I was excited to be part of...
Enfant terrible. This epithet was regularly hurled at Prokofiev, who began his career as a brilliant young rebel whose tradition-shattering compositions shocked many a bourgeois listener and established his reputation...
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