“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” is a song by American rock band Green Day. The power ballad is the fourth track from their seventh studio album American Idiot (2004). Reprise Records released “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” as the second single from American Idiot in November 2004. The song’s lyrics were written by lead singer Billie Joe […]
The 5.6.7.8’s
The 5.6.7.8’s are a Japanese rock band from Tokyo with a retro-inspired sound that draws heavily from the 1960s garage rock scene. They first started performing as a quartet in Tokyo, and recruited guest performers during their Australian tour. They became a trio in 1992, before touring Australia.The 5.6.7.8’s formed when Sachiko and Yoshiko “Ronnie” […]
Ashton – La Fille Mal Gardee (The Clog Dance)
La Fill Mal Gardee (The Wayward Daughter, literal translation: “The Poorly Guarded Girl” and also known as The Girl Who Needed Watching) is a comic ballet presented in two acts. In 1959, the choreographer Frederick Ashton began creating a completely new version of La Fille mal gardée for the Royal Ballet of London. This production […]
Night and Day
“Night and Day” is a popular song by Cole Porter that was written for the 1932 musical Gay Divorcee. It is perhaps Porter’s most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook and has been recorded by dozens of musicians. NPR says “within three months of the show’s opening, more than 30 artists had recorded the […]
The Diva Dance
The Diva Dance song was composed in 1997 by French composer Éric Serra at the request of film maker Luc Besson for the movie The Fifth Element (1997). It becomes the highlight of the film. In the movie the actress who played the “Diva Plavalaguna“, the alien, was Maïwenn Le Besco, but the voice was that of the […]
Twelfth Street Rag
“Twelfth Street Rag” (alternatively “12th Street Rag“) is a ragtime musical composition published by Euday L. Bowman in 1914. A friend of Euday Bowman known as “Raggedy Ed” declared his intention to open a pawn shop on 12th Street in Kansas City while the two were walking along it. Bowman is rumoured to have said […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]