The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975) is a piano composition by American composer Frederic Rzewski. The People United is a set of 36 variations on the Chilean song “¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!” by Sergio Ortega and Quilapayún, and received its world premiere on February 7, 1976, played by Ursula Oppens as […]
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer are master musicians with a career spanning over 35 years. Their superb harmonies are backed by instrumental virtuosity on the guitar, five-string banjo, ukulele, mandolin, cello-banjo, and many other instruments. An eclectic folk festival on their own terms, their repertoire ranges from classic country to western swing, gypsy jazz to […]
Tico Tico
“Tico-Tico No Fubá” is a Brazilian choro song written by Zequinha de Abreu in 1917. Its original title was “Tico-Tico no farelo” (“sparrow in the bran”), but since Brazilian guitarist Américo Jacomino “Canhoto” (1889–1928) had a work with the same title, Abreu’s work was given its present name in 1931, and sometime afterward Aloysio de […]
RPG (Role Playing Game)
Role Playing Game both refers to the original J-Pop song composed by the doujin quad group SoraMafuUraSaka, and its associated animation meme. The song itself depicts the hijinks, playful scuffles and banters within the aforementioned group as they go about on their adventures, within the context of various role-playing games, with peculiar yet mundane names […]
Sit Down You’re Rocking The Boat
“Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat” is a song written by Frank Loesser and published in 1950. The song was introduced in the Broadway musical, Guys and Dolls, which opened at the 46th Street Theatre on November 24, 1950. In the context of the show, ‘Sit down, you’re rocking the boat’ is a deep in […]
Dvorak – Humoresques
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, […]