A music blog written by Rich Brown
The music of Béla Bartók is a huge influence on my musical identity. It began in college, but strangely enough, my first exposure to Bartók was not in music school. I can remember clearly the first time I heard the Bartók Concerto for Orchestra. There was still a classical music station on FM radio in... Continue Reading →
The 1961 blues record King of the Delta Blues Singers by Robert Johnson is a legendary recording that was released at just the right time. Johnson had been dead for over twenty years by the time this LP was put out, but it became one of the most influential recordings for some of the biggest... Continue Reading →
“Complex, but not complicated” was a self-professed compositional creed of the great Maurice Ravel. The names Ravel and Debussy are usually spoken in the same breath, much like “cookies and milk”, “cake and ice cream”, or even “steak and baked potato”. The two great French musicians are most often given as the quintessential examples of... Continue Reading →
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