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• in Entertainment
  "Flying Through Music" Author Sue Zeidler Chats About New Young Adult Fiction Book
  Before "Flying Through Music" author Susan Zeidler officially morphs to super-stardom with her book series, we were able to nab some time from her busy schedule to answer questions.
  by HollywoodGiant / on Oct 19, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “music history”

 

• R.I.P. Ray Manzarek Founding Member of The Doors

  
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  This is so sad. Ray was a true classic rock innovator of the 60s and gave The Doors their signature sound. Some say he was the best keyboardist of the period. For me its hard to say since they flamed out pretty early with Jims death. But, no doubt about it, Ray was a unique and inventive musician. I loved his work. ...
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• Victoria Day Doo Dah

  
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  Happy Victoria Day! Victoria aged 4 (And to our readers outside Canada, psst, it’s Victoria Day) Queen Victoria: longest reigning British Monarch, first to be crowned Empress of India (a tad presumptuous), last of the House of Hanover, longest-lived British monarch until Elizabeth II recently surpassed her. ...
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• From Teenage Dream to Music’s Megaman: Usher

  
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  DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" Usher Raymond IV may have been born to sing. As a youngster, he sang in the choir, and as his family watched his talent develop, they made what would be a fateful decision – to move from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Atlanta, Georgia, where a more fertile music ...
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• Johann Baptist Vanhal - Organ Concerto in C Major

  
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  Image via Wikipedia Johann Baptist Vanhal (Jan Křtitel Vaňha in Czech) is simply an astonishing story, perhaps unique in all of classical music.  Born to a peasant family, his music ended up being conducted by no less than Mozart himself. Bohemia (nor in the Czech Republic) was one of the major regions of the ...
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• Michael Bublé Book Giveaway!

  
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  Original story, Michael Bublé Book Giveaway! , from The American Tune Tribune Michael Buble has the number-one CD in the country, and [...]
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• The Doors’ John Densmore Talks About the Band’s Ugly Feud | Music News | Rolling Stone

  
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  Earlier today… Based on courtroom transcripts, Densmore works up a cautionary tale of the ugly collision of art and money. Densmore writes that the opposing legal team attacked his character and labeled him un-American and a communist for not taking the Cadillac deal. "They tried to convince the jury I was an ...
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• New Composer Lapbook: Amy Beach

  
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  I’m proud to announce that the first woman composer lapbook has been added to the Color In My Piano shop: Amy Beach! Studying Amy Beach gave us the opportunity to discuss the challenges of being a woman composer, especially during Beach’s day.  Among other things, we learned about the MacDowell Colony and ...
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• History doesn’t rhyme — it swears

  
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  [ by Charles Cameron -- finding both rhyme and obscenity here, to be honest -- San Salvador then, Mexico today ] . ** I once had the privilege of hearing Carolyn Forché read her poems. You can read and hear her reading the prose poem from which that excerpt is taken here — for richer background on ...
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• Never Be Blue

  
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  In January 1986 in Sydney I interviewed Dinah Lee, the singer of one of the first three songs I can remember hearing (besides ‘Do the Blue Beat’, the other two are the Beatles’ ‘All My Loving’ and Nat King Cole’s ‘Ramblin’ Rose’). The interview was arranged by my friends Maxine and Bronte, who were ...
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• A Brief History of String Instruments

  
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  The following post is from guest blogger, Emily Steves: Some of the most important instruments in the history of music have been stringed instruments, which range from early to modern forms of the violin and the guitar, through to contemporary experiments with amplification and electric or digital recording. ...
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• Music’s Counting Mystery!

  
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  As a teenager I was intrigued how my history teacher could refer to the Victorian period as being both in the 1800s and in the 19 th century! It wasn’t till more recently that I fully understood the two methods of counting numbers humans have mysteriously been using over the years and the interesting impact that ...
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• Reviews: Willie, Molly, Maddy, Mike

  
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  Original story, Reviews: Willie, Molly, Maddy, Mike , from The American Tune Tribune Four singing stars bring modern sensibilities to the Am [...]
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• Lady Day and Ray

  
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  Original story, Lady Day and Ray , from The American Tune Tribune Madeleine Peyroux has charted a unique course as an art [...]
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• Willie Dances On

  
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  Original story, Willie Dances On , from The American Tune Tribune Willie Nelson is an Untouchable, even to people who don [...]
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• Mike the Knife

  
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  Original story, Mike the Knife , from The American Tune Tribune There once was a singer who operated very successfully [...]
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• Pretty in Pink, Promising in Jazz

  
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  Original story, Pretty in Pink, Promising in Jazz , from The American Tune Tribune Okay, here’s the big news: Molly Ringwald is not quite [...]
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• Pet Shop Boys: Go West at Live 8

  
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  This is my Saturday night and this very live version of the Village Peoples hit, turned on its head is exactly fitting the mood of the moment. The Pet Shop Boys are the best. This is the last number from their incredible 1.5 hour performance at Live 8 in Moscow. By this time Neils voice is getting a bit iffy, but they ...
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• National Shrimp Scampi Day with R-E-S-P-E-C-T

  
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  Quote for Today :  “My faith always has been and always will be important to me.”    Aretha Franklin, Singer,   Songwriter, and Pianist Today is  National Shrimp Scampi Day  and although unsure of the origins of this date in history, Shrimp Scampi is a favorite of ours.  Shrimp Scampi is a delicious ...
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• Saturday 9

  
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  (Link in meme-roll) Twist and Shout 1) In the movie Ferris Buellers Day Off, Ferris climbs up on a parade float and enthusiastically lip synchs this song, encouraging the entire crowd to join in. Do you know the lyrics of "Twist and Shout" well enough to sing along? (Watch the impossibly young Matthew Broderick as ...
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• A new musical legacy for Frank Lloyd Wrights father, courtesy of music historian

  
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  One thing that’s not disputed about Frank Lloyd Wright’s father is this: He loved music. Long portrayed as a distant parent and meager breadwinner who abandoned the family when Frank was 17, the senior Wright emerges as a much different character — a cultured and exuberantly creative man who lived a life in ...
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