Frédéric Chopin’s Fantaisie-Impromptu in C♯ minor, Op. posth. 66, WN 46 is a solo piano composition. It was composed in 1834 and published posthumously in 1855 despite Chopin’s instruction that none of his unpublished manuscripts be published. The Fantaisie-Impromptu is one of Chopin’s most frequently performed and popular compositions. The Fantaisie-Impromptu was written in 1834, as were […]
Wagner – The Ride of the Valkyries
The Ride of the Valkyries is the popular name of the prelude to the first scene of the third and last act of Die Walküre, the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute the operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung), composed by Richard Wagner. As a separate […]
Saint-Saens – Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
The Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor (French: Introduction et Rondo capriccioso), Op. 28, is a composition for violin and orchestra written in 1863 by Camille Saint-Saëns. It was dedicated to the virtuoso violinist Pablo de Sarasate, who performed the solo violin part at the premiere in April 1867. The Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso […]
Steve Cropper
Steven Lee Cropper, sometimes known as “The Colonel“, was an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. Cropper was born in Dora, Missouri on October 21, 1941. He was raised in Dora and West Plains before moving with his family to Memphis at age 9. In Memphis, he was exposed to black church music, which had […]
Country Joe McDonald
Country Joe McDonald was one of the starring acts at Woodstock, he and his band, the Fish, came out of the Bay Area’s psychedelic rock scene. He went on to a long career as a solo artist. In his breakthrough years, After the band’s main run ended in 1970, he released scores of solo albums […]
Ann Pennington
Anna Rebecca Pennington was an American actress, dancer, and singer who starred on Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, notably in the Ziegfeld Follies and George White’s Scandals. Pennington was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on December 23, 1893, to John I. Pennington and his wife, Mary (Reeder) Pennington. There are differing accounts of Pennington’s early […]
Viola Smith
Viola Clara Smith was an American drummer best known for her work in orchestras, swing bands, and popular music from the 1920s until 1975. She was one of the first professional female drummers, and was the world’s longest-lived female drummer, dying in October 2020 at the age of 107. She played five times on The […]
Vince Guaraldi
Vincent Anthony Guaraldi (was an American jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip.The genesis of Guaraldi’s association with the Peanuts franchise began in 1963 when television producer Lee Mendelson, searching for music for a planned Peanuts documentary titled A Boy Named Charlie Brown, heard “Cast Your […]
Siddhartha Khosla
Siddhartha Khosla is an Emmy Award-winning film and television composer, singer/songwriter, and producer of the critically acclaimed band, Goldspot. In 2024 Khosla received an Emmy for his work on Hulu’s critically acclaimed series, Only Murders In The Building, in the “Outstanding Music Composition For a Series” category. In 2022, Khosla received three Emmy nominations, two […]
Tchaikovsky – Trepak
Trepak also referred to as the Russian dance, is one of the character dances from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s famous 1892 ballet The Nutcracker. Trepak (or tropak is a traditional East Slavic folk dance (Russian and Ukrainian). Russian researchers have pointed out the similarities to the Kamarinskaya or Barynya, meanwhile Ukrainian researchers have compared it to […]