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1: Sam Cooke - Pioneer for Modern Music

Sam Cooke: Pioneer for Modern Music Rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson made over $50 million in 2004 without ever releasin...

By: Erik Greene

2: John Lennon: He Asked To Give Peace A Chance

He dreamed of world peace. He was an artist, poet and an outspoken voice of the hippie generation. He was an influential musician, a peace activist, an absent father and a devoted lover and husband...

By: Robert Benson

3: Mozart Requiem

The one thing to always bear in mind when you listen to the Mozart Requiem is that he didn’t write all of it. He wrote the first movement but his unfinished manuscripts had to be used to actuall...

By: Jen Rossi

4: Beethoven Music and Biography

Beethoven has been said to have been schizophrenic, and it’s a very good thing he was. He had a pretty rough life on the one hand but he has given us his beautiful music on the other.

By: Jen Rossi

5: Lieder- Compare and Contrast

Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms all wrote about aspects of nature in the texts of their songs. Schubert used very flowery language in “Die Mondnacht” to describe the beautiful scenery. Th...

By: Daneille Scott

6: Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms, one of the Great Romantic composers was born in Hamburg in 1833. Like Mozart before him, Brahms’s father was a musician playing several instruments, but who had come to Hamburg ...

By: Eunice Wallace

7: Bob Marley Legend

For each of us of the sixties, seventies, and/or eighties, the Bob Marley legend takes on different and specific meaning, rife with peaceful love, spiritual reclamation, and eve...

By: Bobby McHavens

8: Aerosmith Just Keeps On Rockin’

For over three decades, Aerosmith have been one of rock's most revered and popular bands, crafting classic songs full of raw guitar runs and intensely energetic vocals. The band first reached fame in ...

By: F.R. Penn

9: Eric Clapton -

Eric Clapton, thought by many to be the preeminent guitar authority in the world, is returning to the stage in the summer of 2006. His story is one that relates directly to the decades of timeless mus...

By: Jay Nault

10: The Life And Times Of John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an iconic 20th century composer and singer of popular music with Paul McCartney as Lennon McCartney throughout the 1960s, and ...

By: Scott Michaels

Beethoven and Napoleon

Beethoven and Napoleon never met. However they played their individual roles in the new "Romantic Age" apparent in Europe at the beginning of the 19th Century. Beethoven, the independent composer of his time, ra...

By: Bobby McHavens

Free Music Trials

Free Music Trials Music download web sites allow music lovers to access and purchase a large variety of songs and music videos online. Most of the early w...

By: Thomas Martin

So, You Want To Collaborate? The Key to Success For Songwriters

Collaborating is one of the most rewarding and productive activities a songwriter can engage in. It's also one of the most challenging. Co-writing will stretch you in ways you can't even imagine up front.Take a...

By: Alex Forbes

TORONTO - "Smash" star Debra Messing knows all too well the nerve-wracking anxiety that comes with auditioning for musical theatre.

FARGO - Iraq native Luma Alobeidy always dreamed of playing a musical instrument, but she never got the chance. Now she is all the more grateful for a music program that's giving her two daughters...

A new composition by Robert Bradshaw humorously explores the role of technology in people?s lives. Folk icon Bill Staines visits Old World Coffeehouse in Essex. Artist Cheryl Dyment shares ?The Import...

Connellsville Area High School's Paul Emanuel, a senior who plays several musical instruments and soccer and is an Eagle Scout and community volunteer, is taking to the stage this year, having bee...

"Smash" star Debra Messing knows all too well the nerve-wracking anxiety that comes with auditioning for musical theatre.