Rolling Quartz is a South Korean rock band that debuted in December 2020 under Rolling Star Entertainment. Rolling Quartz formed as a five member rock group in August 2019. They were originally two separate bands, under the names “Rolling Girlz” and “Rose Quartz”, but they merged into a single group, merging their names to be […]
Lily Morris
Lily Morris was an English music hall performer, who specialised in singing comedic songs. She was born in the Holborn area of London, the daughter of Maurice Crosby, a cigar maker and amateur songwriter. He directed her early career, which started in music halls in 1894, when she was 11 years old. Her first successful […]
Yousei Teikoku
Yousei Teikoku (lit. “Fairy Empire”) is a Japanese rock band formed in 1997. Their music mixes elements of gothic metal, heavy metal, electronic and classical music. Their works include the opening tracks of several anime series, including Future Diary, Magical Pokan, Innocent Venus, Kurokami: The Animation, The Qwaser of Stigmata, Big Order, and the Tokyo […]
Mozart – Oboe Quartet in F Major
The Oboe Quartet in F major, (K370/368b), was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in early 1781. The quartet is scored for oboe, violin, viola and violone basso or cello. In 1780, Mozart was invited to Munich to visit Elector Karl Theodor, who had commissioned the opera Idomeneo for a carnival celebration. While in Munich, Mozart […]
Bruch – Kol Nidrei
Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 (also known as All Vows, the meaning of the phrase in Aramaic), is a composition for cello and orchestra written by Max Bruch. Bruch completed the work in Liverpool, in 1880, and published it in Berlin in 1881. It was dedicated to and premiered by Robert Hausmann, who later co-premiered Johannes […]
Mazurka
The Mazurka is a Polish musical form based on stylised folk dances in triple metre, usually at a lively tempo, with character defined mostly by the prominent mazur’s “strong accents unsystematically placed on the second or third beat”. The Mazurka, alongside the polka dance, became popular at the ballrooms and salons of Europe in the […]
Bach – Partita No. 3 in E Major
The Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006.1 (formerly 1006), is the last work in Johann Sebastian Bach’s set of Sonatas and Partitas. It takes about 15–18 minutes to perform and consists of the following movements: This Partita is perhaps the most exuberant and cheery of the three in the book; while it is […]
The Trolley Song
“The Trolley Song” is a song written by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin and made famous by Judy Garland in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis. In a 1989 NPR interview, Blane and Martin reminisced about the song’s genesis. They were assigned to write a song for the trolley scene in the film. […]
The Pleasure Fair
The Pleasure Fair was a musical performing group based in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. The original group membership included Robb Royer, Tim Hallinan, Michele Cochrane and Stephen Cohn. Robb Royer obtained his first guitar when he was 19 years old and a college sophomore at San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge (now California […]
Mozart – Bassoon Concerto
The Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, K 191/186e, was written in 1774 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is the most often performed and studied piece in the entire bassoon repertory. Nearly all professional bassoonists will perform the piece at some stage in their career, and it is probably the most commonly requested piece in orchestral […]