John Addison was a British composer best known for his film scores. Addison was born in Chobham to a father who was a colonel in the Royal Field Artillery, and this influenced the decision to send him to school at Wellington College. His grandfather was Lieut-Colonel George Addison, who played for the Royal Engineers in […]
Playing For Change
Playing For Change was created to inspire and connect the world through music. The idea for this project came from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. Born in 2002 as a shared vision between co-founders Mark Johnson and Whitney Kroenke, we hit the streets […]
Skameleon
Skameleon originate from the city of Herborn in Hesse, Germany. The cheerfully skanking, eight-piece ska cover combo skameleon is a guarantee of a good mood for every event. skameleon rework world hits into Ska with impunity and thus make the rather unknown music genre socially acceptable. Under the motto “ SKA MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER ”, […]
Paolo Conte
Paolo Conte is an Italian singer, pianist, songwriter and lawyer, known for his distinctly grainy, resonant voice. His compositions fuse Italian and Mediterranean sounds with jazz, boogie, elements of the French chanson and Latin-American rhythms.Conte was born in Asti, Piedmont. His parents were avid jazz fans and Conte and his younger brother Giorgio spent their […]
Radetzky March
The “Radetzky March“, Opus 228, is a march composed by Johann Strauss (Senior) which was first performed in August 1848 in Vienna to celebrate the victory of the Austrian Empire under Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz over the Italian forces at the Battle of Custoza, during the First Italian War of Independence. It has […]
Árstíðir
Árstíðir (English: Seasons) is an Icelandic classically influenced indie-folk rock/chamber pop band. The defining characteristic of this band is their vocal harmonies, as all members sing. Just like the Icelandic culture, Árstíðir’s music sits somewhere between history and modernity. Their songs draw on a millennia of culture and weaves it together with the sounds of […]
Human League
The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh were both working as computer operators in 1977, and combined a love of pop music with avant garde electronic music. They acquired a Roland System 100 synthesizer and began to create music in their own rehearsal […]
Little Fugue
Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, (popularly known as the Little Fugue), is a piece of organ music written by JS Bach during his years at Arnstadt (1703–1707). It is one of Bach’s best known fugues and has been arranged for other voices, including an orchestral version by Leopold Stokowski. Early editors of Bach’s work […]
Little Red Rooster
“Little Red Rooster” is a blues standard credited to arranger and songwriter Willie Dixon. The song was first recorded in 1961 by American blues musician Howlin’ Wolf in the Chicago blues style. His vocal and slide guitar playing are key elements of the song. It is rooted in the Delta blues tradition and the theme […]
Scholares Minores
The early music group “Scholares Minores pro Musica Antiqua”, the choir “Szczygielki” (which means Goldfinches), the chamber string orchestra called “KOS” and many other musical groups formed later, are children’s music ensembles, established in 1975 in Poniatowa (near Lublin), Poland. and still directed by a married couple of musicologists, Witold and Danuta Danielewicz, which have […]