NORTON - The music of the 1930s will be showcased tonight at Wheaton College. Visiting artist Leslie Amper will perform and present a piano recital and lecture titled "Creativity in Hard Times: The ...
Pop music of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s was way hipper than the pop music of the ’90s, aughts and ’10s. Backstreet Boys, Faith Hill and Pitbull take a far, back seat to Duke Ellington, Glen Miller and ...
Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.
Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...
Liane Hansen reads a listener's letter about Raymond Scott, the 1930s composer whose music was heard in many Warner Brothers cartoons. Scott did not compose for that purpose: He claimed he had never ...
NORTH ATTLEBORO - Music of the 1930s will make a roaring comeback Saturday as the town kicks off its Big Read program for Harper Lee's classic "To Kill A Mockingbird." The opening event for North ...
Music videos did not begin with MTV. Long before television, filmmakers were already pairing popular songs with moving images. In the 1930s, these early forms looked different, but the basic idea was ...
On Friday, April 24, the Robert Dale Chorale will join with The Doug Smith Jazz Trio to present a program featuring the music of the 1930s and 1940s. The program begins at 7:30 pm at Shopland Hall in ...
A desire to celebrate the swing music of the 1930s and 1940s and introduce the genre to younger generations spurred Mike Denson, a lifelong saxophonist, to pen songs.