A music blog written by Rich Brown
Music is NOT a universal language. I repeat, contrary to what is often said, music is NOT a universal language. If that were the case, every person could understand every piece of music from every culture without much effort. This is simply not the case. Much of the music around the world is organized and... Continue Reading →
Where I come from, there are really just two seasons, Winter and Road Construction. The late winter and early spring bring potholes in the road. Big, mean, tire-killing potholes on every road you drive. “Holes” doesn’t even begin to describe these Volkswagen eating monsters. They are craters. Canyons really, deep enough to have archeologists carbon... Continue Reading →
Dmitri Shostakovich is a Russian composer whose musical career is entangled with the history of Soviet Russia. He lived from 1906 to 1975, and in his lifetime saw the Bolshevik revolution overthrow tsarist rule, the Russian civil war, and the totalitarian Soviet State. He saw the regimes of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev.... Continue Reading →
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