The music for the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones is composed by Ramin Djawadi. The music is primarily non-diegetic and instrumental with occasional vocal performances, and is created to support musically the characters and plots of the show. It features various themes, the most prominent being the “main title theme” that accompanies the series’ […]
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor
The Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785. The first performance took place at the Mehlgrube Concert Hall in Vienna on 11 February 1785, with the composer as the soloist. A few days after the first performance, the composer’s father, Leopold, visiting in Vienna, wrote […]
Carmen Jones
Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre. Conceptually, it is Bizet’s opera Carmen updated to a World War II-era, African-American setting. Bizet’s opera was, in turn, based on […]
Ado
Ado is a Japanese singer. In 2014, Ado took an interest in music after software for the video-sharing website Niconico was released on the Nintendo 3DS. She began watching videos on the small screen of the handheld game console, and was impressed by cover singers on Niconico who sang without showing their faces. In 2017, […]
Cleo Laine
Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth was an English singer and actress known for her scat singing. She was the wife of jazz composer and musician Sir John Dankworth and the mother of bassist Alec Dankworth and singer Jacqui Dankworth. Laine was born Clementine Dinah Hitching on 28 October 1927, in Southall, Middlesex. Her father, Alexander […]
FLOW
FLOW is a Japanese rock band formed in 1998 as a five-piece band made up of two vocalists, a guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer. The group began in 1993 when brothers Kōshi (elder: vocals, rhythm guitar) and Take (younger: lead guitar) began playing together. They formed Flow in 1998, and by 2000, were joined […]
Hymne à L’amour
“Hymne à l’amour” is a 1949 French song with lyrics by Édith Piaf and music by Marguerite Monnot. It was first sung by Piaf that year and recorded by her in 1950 for Columbia records. It was written to Piaf’s lover and the love of her life, the French boxer, Marcel Cerdan. On 28 October […]
Blue Velvet
“Blue Velvet” is a song recorded by Japanese singer Shizuka Kudo for her thirteenth studio album, I’m Not. It was released by Pony Canyon as the album’s leading single in May 1997. It served as the third ending theme song to the Fuji Television anime series Dragon Ball GT, from episode 42 to episode 50. […]
Let’s Jump The Broomstick
“Let’s Jump the Broomstick” is a song written by Charles Robins and performed first by a black Nashville group, Alvin Gaines & The Themes, in 1959, then covered that year by Brenda Lee. Her version of Let’s Jump The Broomstick” originally released on Decca Records, reached No.12 in the United Kingdom in 1961. The song […]
Non Più Andrai
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has composed more than 600 operas, concertos, masses, dances, arias, Singspiele and so on, and many have interesting stories behind them. The aria with the most stories and myths, however is Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso, the famous finale of the first act of Le Nozze di Figaro (K.492/1786). It is usually […]