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4 days ago · 2. On Thursday, May 16th at 8pm, Nona Hendryx, along with an all-woman band, pays tribute to the ferocious funk disrupter and agitator Betty Davis, whose influence rippled through the decades. Musical director Etienne Stadwijk. “Betty Davis was an iconoclast, a shape shifter, and a woman on fire—singing and setting alight everything in her ...
Current artists still experience this dilemma. One of my favorite musicians, Tyler, the Creator, experienced this at the beginning of his career in the early 2000s, thirty years after Betty Davis was on the scene. Betty directly addresses the very public criticisms of her image and words on the track Dedicated To The Press. She opens with "Hey now!
3 days ago · 1865 in music – Birth of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius; Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner premieres in Munich, marking the beginning of the end for traditional tonality; The Symphony No. 1 by Antonín Dvorak; Franz Liszt publishes his solo piano transcriptions of the full Beethoven Symphonies 1 – 9.
3 days ago · Although her music was not directly associated with the British music/dance movement northern soul, her efforts were seen as a contributing factor in the formation of the genre. Springfield is a cultural icon of the Swinging Sixties, where she "was an instantly recognisable celebrity".
6 days ago · 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards (Europe) Best Song: "Dynamite" by BTS • Best Video: "Popstar" by DJ Khaled featuring Drake • Best Artist: Lady Gaga • Best New: Doja Cat. 2020 American Music Awards (USA) Artist of the Year: Taylor Swift • New Artist of the Year: Doja Cat • Collaboration of the Year: "10,000 Hours" by Dan + Shay and Justin ...
2 days ago · Weitere Ereignisse · Country-Musik. Musikjahr 1953. In Moskau stirbt am 5. März 1953 der sowjetische Pianist und Komponist Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew. Sein Musikmärchen Peter und der Wolf zählt zu den weltweit am meisten gespielten Werken der klassischen Musik. Der französische Gitarrist, Komponist und Bandleader Django Reinhardt ...
5 days ago · FORT DAVIS — Fort Davis ISD students are being reintroduced to music after nearly 10 years without, thanks to Don Witte, a local music enthusiast who passed away in 2022 and donated a portion of his estate towards reviving the district’s lapsed music program, a victim of 2014 budget cuts.
