The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh were both working as computer operators in 1977, and combined a love of pop music with avant garde electronic music. They acquired a Roland System 100 synthesizer and began to create music in their own rehearsal […]
Little Fugue
Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, (popularly known as the Little Fugue), is a piece of organ music written by JS Bach during his years at Arnstadt (1703–1707). It is one of Bach’s best known fugues and has been arranged for other voices, including an orchestral version by Leopold Stokowski. Early editors of Bach’s work […]
Little Red Rooster
“Little Red Rooster” is a blues standard credited to arranger and songwriter Willie Dixon. The song was first recorded in 1961 by American blues musician Howlin’ Wolf in the Chicago blues style. His vocal and slide guitar playing are key elements of the song. It is rooted in the Delta blues tradition and the theme […]
Scholares Minores
The early music group “Scholares Minores pro Musica Antiqua”, the choir “Szczygielki” (which means Goldfinches), the chamber string orchestra called “KOS” and many other musical groups formed later, are children’s music ensembles, established in 1975 in Poniatowa (near Lublin), Poland. and still directed by a married couple of musicologists, Witold and Danuta Danielewicz, which have […]
Pavane
The Pavane is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century. The pavane, the earliest-known music for which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci, in Joan Ambrosio Dalza’s Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto in 1508, is a sedate and dignified couple dance, similar to the 15th-century basse danse. The music which […]
Remember (Walking in the Sand)
Remember (Walking in the Sand)“, also known as “Remember“, is a song written by George ‘Shadow’ Morton. It originally was recorded by the Shangri-Las, who had a top five hit with it in 1964. Morton was looking to break into the music business, and went to the Brill Building in New York City to see […]
Train Kept A-Rollin’
“Train Kept A-Rollin’” (or “The Train Kept A-Rollin’“) is a song first recorded by American jazz and rhythm and blues musician Tiny Bradshaw in 1951. Originally performed in the style of a jump blues (which uses a boogie-woogie bass line and a shuffle rhythm), Bradshaw borrowed lyrics from an earlier song and set them to […]
Mari Samuelsen
Mari Silje Samuelsen is a Norwegian violinist. She is the sister of cellist Håkon Samuelsen, with whom she often performs throughout Norway and Europe. Samuelsen grew up in Hamar, and began playing violin at age three at a local music school outside the city. By age four, she became a student of violinist Arve Tellefsen, […]