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1: Sam Cooke - Pioneer for Modern Music

Sam Cooke: Pioneer for Modern Music Rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson made over $50 million in 2004 without ever releasin...

By: Erik Greene

2: John Lennon: He Asked To Give Peace A Chance

He dreamed of world peace. He was an artist, poet and an outspoken voice of the hippie generation. He was an influential musician, a peace activist, an absent father and a devoted lover and husband...

By: Robert Benson

3: Mozart Requiem

The one thing to always bear in mind when you listen to the Mozart Requiem is that he didn’t write all of it. He wrote the first movement but his unfinished manuscripts had to be used to actuall...

By: Jen Rossi

4: Beethoven Music and Biography

Beethoven has been said to have been schizophrenic, and it’s a very good thing he was. He had a pretty rough life on the one hand but he has given us his beautiful music on the other.

By: Jen Rossi

5: Lieder- Compare and Contrast

Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms all wrote about aspects of nature in the texts of their songs. Schubert used very flowery language in “Die Mondnacht” to describe the beautiful scenery. Th...

By: Daneille Scott

6: Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms, one of the Great Romantic composers was born in Hamburg in 1833. Like Mozart before him, Brahms’s father was a musician playing several instruments, but who had come to Hamburg ...

By: Eunice Wallace

7: Bob Marley Legend

For each of us of the sixties, seventies, and/or eighties, the Bob Marley legend takes on different and specific meaning, rife with peaceful love, spiritual reclamation, and eve...

By: Bobby McHavens

8: Aerosmith Just Keeps On Rockin’

For over three decades, Aerosmith have been one of rock's most revered and popular bands, crafting classic songs full of raw guitar runs and intensely energetic vocals. The band first reached fame in ...

By: F.R. Penn

9: Eric Clapton -

Eric Clapton, thought by many to be the preeminent guitar authority in the world, is returning to the stage in the summer of 2006. His story is one that relates directly to the decades of timeless mus...

By: Jay Nault

10: The Life And Times Of John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an iconic 20th century composer and singer of popular music with Paul McCartney as Lennon McCartney throughout the 1960s, and ...

By: Scott Michaels

Songwriting Inspiration or Persperation?

SONGWRITINGInspiration or Persperation? Songwriting is one part inspiration and one part per...

By: Kathy Unruh

What is a gold record?

What is a gold record? Emblematic of recording success, began as a publicity stunt by a record company to honor Glenn Miller in 194...

By: Doug Gelbert

Aerosmith Just Keeps On Rockin’

For over three decades, Aerosmith have been one of rock's most revered and popular bands, crafting classic songs full of raw guitar runs and intensely energetic vocals. The band first reached fame in the 1970’s with a s...

By: F.R. Penn

Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple...

Rapper and music mogul P. Diddy is being sued for age discrimination.

Music will fill the air and hundreds will fill Lake Park and city streets this weekend during the annual Delavan Fall Festival.   "We'll have eight live music acts who play all kinds of music coming ...

Habeas Corpus Early Music and Dance will give a free performance at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the Senior Center Assembly Room, 28 S. Linn St.

The Concord Music Group has done an impressive job of summarizing the early career of John Coltrane with The Definitive John Coltrane On Prestige and Riverside. Twenty-one tunes, dating from 1955 to 1...