“Train Kept A-Rollin’” (or “The Train Kept A-Rollin’“) is a song first recorded by American jazz and rhythm and blues musician Tiny Bradshaw in 1951. Originally performed in the style of a jump blues (which uses a boogie-woogie bass line and a shuffle rhythm), Bradshaw borrowed lyrics from an earlier song and set them to […]
Là ci darem la mano
“Là ci darem la mano” (Italian for “There we will give each other our hands”) is a duet for the characters Don Giovanni (baritone) and Zerlina(soprano) in Mozart’s 1787 opera Don Giovanni (act 1, scene 9). The duet, with words by Lorenzo Da Ponte, is sung during the first act of the opera. Don Giovanni […]
Funiculì, Funiculà
Funiculì, Funiculà is a Neapolitan song composed in 1880 by Luigi Denza to lyrics by Peppino Turco. It was written to commemorate the opening of the first funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius. It was presented by Turco and Denza at the Piedigrotta festival the same year. The sheet music was published by Rocordi and sold […]
Hannes De Maeyer
Hannes De Maeyer is one of Belgium’s most versatile composers, best known for his collaboration with director duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah His work ranges from contemporary electronic scores with pop and hip hop influences, to rich, orchestral and symphonic works. After meeting the talented Belgian directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall […]
The Donnas
The Donnas were an American rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1993. The band consisted of Brett Anderson (lead vocals), Allison Robertson (guitar, backing vocals), Maya Ford (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Torry Castellano (drums, percussion, backing vocals). Attending the same school, They all became friends by eighth grade and formed as a […]
St. James Infirmary
“St. James Infirmary ” is an American blues and jazz standard that emerged, like many others, from folk traditions. Louis Armstrong brought the song to lasting fame through his 1928 recording, on which Don Redman is named as composer; later releases credit “Joe Primrose,” a pseudonym used by musician manager, music promoter and publisher Irving […]
Serenade
A Serenade in its oldest usage, which survives in informal form to the present day, is a musical greeting performed for a lover, friend, person of rank or other person to be honoured. The classic usage would be from a lover to his lady love through a window. It was considered an evening piece, one […]
Vivian Ellis
Vivian Ellis, was an English musical comedy composer. Ellis was born in Hampstead, London in 1903 and educated at Cheltenham College. He began a musical career as a concert pianist, but became a composer and lyricist. His grandmother, Julia Woolf, had also been a concert pianist as well as composing an opera, Carina. He had […]
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round
“Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round” is a freedom song based on the spiritual “Don’t You Let Nobody Turn You Round” and became an American civil rights era anthem. It was sung during demonstrations for civil rights in the United States including during the Memphis sanitation worker strike in 1967. The song’s lyrics are […]
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
The Arrival of the Quuen of Sheba is probably the most well known piece from Solomon, (HWV 67), an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. The anonymous libretto – currently thought to have been penned by the English Jewish poet/playwright Moses Mendes (d.1758) – is based on the biblical stories of the wise king Solomon from […]