Humoresques is a piano cycle by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, written during the summer of 1894. Music critic David Hurwitz says “the seventh Humoresque is probably the most famous small piano work ever written after Beethoven’s Für Elise.” During his stay in the United States, when Dvořák was director of the Conservatory in New […]
Mozart – Symphony No. 25 in G minor
Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183, was written by the then 17-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in October 1773, shortly after the success of his opera seria Lucio Silla. It was supposedly completed in Salzburg on October 5, a mere two days after the completion of his Symphony No. 24, although this remains unsubstantiated. […]
Black Box
Black Box is an Italian house music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The group is currently made up of DJ Daniele Davoli, classically trained clarinet teacher Valerio Semplici, keyboardist and electronic musician Mirko Limoni, and vocalist Celestine Walcott-Gordon. French fashion model Katrin Quinol joined the act in 1989 and became the […]
Faithless
Faithless are an English dance music band that formed in 1995, with its core members being Rollo, Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz. Faithless were founded in 1995. Jazz had his musical beginnings in hip-hop, and was a rapper on the local scene in South London since the mid-1980s. Bliss’ and Rollo’s primary interests were in […]
Easter Song
“Easter Song” is a song written by Annie Herring of the Jesus music group the 2nd Chapter of Acts that tells of Jesus Christ’s resurrection and the elation Christians feel about this resurrection on Easter. It was first recorded in 1974 and released on the band’s debut album, With Footnotes. It continues to be performed, […]
Zombie Nation
Zombie Nation is the project of German DJ and producer Florian Senfter. Zombie Nation’s single “Kernkraft 400” was a worldwide hit. The first Zombie Nation EP was released in the spring of 1999 on DJ Hell’s label, International DeeJay Gigolo Records. A remix of the song “Kernkraft 400” on this debut release reached high chart […]
Gorecki – Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
The Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. The work is indicative of the transition between Górecki’s earlier dissonant style and his later more tonal style and “represented a stylistic breakthrough: […]
Bellini
Bellini are a German pop girl group formed in 1997. The group consists of the three members Dandara Santos-Silva, Lisa Frieg and Megan Sierz. They have been produced by the producer duo Ramon Zenker and Gottfried Engels, known as The Bellini Brothers. The name “Bellini” itself was inspired by the surname of the former Brazilian […]
Beats International
Beats International were a British dance music band and hip-hop collective, formed in the late 1980s by Norman Cook (later in his career known as Fatboy Slim) based in Brighton, East Sussex, England, after his departure from the Housemartins. A loose confederation of musicians, the line-up also included vocalist Lindy Layton, former North of Cornwallis […]
Scherzo
A Scherzo is a short composition – sometimes a movement from a larger work such as a symphony or a sonata. The precise definition has varied over the years, but scherzo often refers to a movement that replaces the minuet as the third movement in a four-movement work, such as a symphony, sonata, or string […]