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What fascinated them about shoegaze were the dreamlike soundscapes and sonic spaciousness: “As opposed to other music, which sketches sound in distinct contours, noise spreads and multiplies… Noise ...
During World War II, within the walls of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish prisoner secretly penned a short ...
“The violin is no longer played,” he wrote. “It is pulled about, torn, beaten black and blue.” Kopatchinskaja doesn’t always beat music black and blue. She can reduce her sound to a ...
Editor’s note: Theater Critic Sean McMullen has handed over The Showbuzz to the Grunion’s Pinch of Salt Columnist Harry Saltzgaver for the week. A tour de force. It’s hard to think of a ...
The violin played as the Titanic ship sinks in the Hollywood film is expected to sell for £60,000 at auction. Amid the chaos of the sinking ship, a string quartet plays the hymn Nearer My God To Thee, ...
church music and forced singing. All known instruments that survived Dachau are believed to have been brought in by prisoners. Kempa’s ‘violin of hope’ as it has been named, is the only known ...
Since the group formed in 1987, Arrested Development has brought their own flavor of music to the hip hop scene. Started by Todd “Speech” Thomas in Atlanta, the group was on the forefront of ...
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WTVO) — Indiana’s Senate passed a bill, which already cleared the Indiana House, that would begin the process of absorbing Illinois counties that wish to break away from ...