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5 days ago · John Cage was an American avant-garde composer whose inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music. The son of an inventor, Cage briefly attended Pomona College and then traveled in Europe for a time. Returning to the United States in 1931, he studied.
1 day ago · He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music. Stravinsky's father was an established bass opera singer, and Stravinsky grew up taking piano and music theory lessons.
23 hours ago · Regional cultures blurred as a national culture emerged via radio transmissions, motion picture releases, and phonograph records. The turbulent decade of the 1920s sat at the center of this musical and cultural transformation as American life underwent dramatic changes in the first decades of the 20th century.
5 days ago · Footnotes is the story of how composers Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, along with comedians Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles, overcame poverty, racism, and violence to harness the energy of the...
2 days ago · Pasek and Paul's soundtrack to the 20th Century Fox musical film The Greatest Showman; Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. Rag'n'Bone Man's Human; SZA's Ctrl; Drake's More Life; Smino's blkswn; Tyler, The Creator's Flower Boy; BROCKHAMPTON's Saturation, Saturation II, and Saturation III; Rex Orange County's Apricot Princess; Father John Misty's Pure Comedy
1 day ago · Peking-style opera is also frequently heard in the U.S.) Cowell was born in Menlo Park and became a leading composer in 20th-century avant-garde music. He was raised in San Francisco by his mother and prior to the 1906 earthquake that devastated SF's Chinatown and would sit on the curb outside clubs and listen to music wafting out; he also ...
