Music is the poetry of the air. Humanity’s musical treasures — Beethoven piano sonatas, Schubert songs, Mozart symphonies and the like — come to life in performance. But they truly survive as black marks on a page, otherwise known as scores. Now a Web site founded five years ago by a conservatory student, then 19 [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 13 Jan 2011
Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) bring you this amazing new deluxe hardback 12″ x 12″ book, 200 pages, 100s of stunning absolutely killer Bossa Nova sleeves from Brazil plus loads of historical, cultural and social text as well as biographies on loads of the artists! Bossa Nova And The Rise Of Brazilian [...]
Architecture & Design &Music Entropy | 10 Dec 2010
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.- Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849) Chopin Year Celebrations on 200 Birth Anniversary Sculpture of Ordered Chaos Visualizes Chopin’s Music The design was for recent multimedia exhibition of [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 26 Nov 2010
Listen: Herman Leonard and his World of Jazz Herman Leonard’s life was an example of the phrase “everything in its time.” Shortly after earning a fine-arts degree in photography in the late 1940s, Leonard was making a living as a commercial photographer during the day and hanging out in jazz clubs in New York at [...]
Bach On A Steinway marks the first release on the new- Steinway & Sons Record label. This all-new recording of keyboard masterpieces features pianist Jeffrey Biegel playing on another kind of keyboard masterpiece: a Steinway Model D, handcrafted and specially selected for this project. Biegel brings his own considered ornamentation to these Baroque gems, offering [...]
The Swingle Singers were mostly a cappella vocal group formed in 1962 in Paris, France with Ward Swingle, Anne Germain, Jeanette Baucomont and Jean Cussac. Christiane Legrand, the sister of composer Michel Legrand, was the lead soprano in the original French group. There were a total of eight members in the group: two sopranos, two [...]