Karen Brunon is a French classical violinist and singer originally from Puy-en-Velay where her parents ran a music store. Until the age of 11, she studied violin at the Conservatoire du Puy. She entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 16. She began working with Michel Legrand in 1996. In 1998, she distinguished […]
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 […]
A Touch of Class (ATC)
A Touch of Class (often shortened in initials as ATC) were an international Eurodance group based in Germany, although the four members each came from different countries — Joseph “Joey” Murray from New Zealand, Sarah Egglestone from Australia, Livio Salvi from Italy, and Tracey Elizabeth Packham from England. The pop group was active from 1997 […]
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 […]
Rzewski – The People United Will Never Be Defeated
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975) is a piano composition by American composer Frederic Rzewski. The People United is a set of 36 variations on the Chilean song “¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!” by Sergio Ortega and Quilapayún, and received its world premiere on February 7, 1976, played by Ursula Oppens as […]
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer are master musicians with a career spanning over 35 years. Their superb harmonies are backed by instrumental virtuosity on the guitar, five-string banjo, ukulele, mandolin, cello-banjo, and many other instruments. An eclectic folk festival on their own terms, their repertoire ranges from classic country to western swing, gypsy jazz to […]
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 […]
RPG (Role Playing Game)
Role Playing Game both refers to the original J-Pop song composed by the doujin quad group SoraMafuUraSaka, and its associated animation meme. The song itself depicts the hijinks, playful scuffles and banters within the aforementioned group as they go about on their adventures, within the context of various role-playing games, with peculiar yet mundane names […]
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 […]
Dvorak – Humoresques
Humoresques is a piano cycle by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, written during the summer of 1894. Music critic David Hurwitz says “the seventh Humoresque is probably the most famous small piano work ever written after Beethoven’s Für Elise.” During his stay in the United States, when Dvořák was director of the Conservatory in New […]