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... "hipi" meaning, "to open one's eyes to the world we live in." Hip-Hop, genre originating in the mid-1970s among black and Hispanic performers in New York City, at first associated with an athletic style of dancing, known as break dancing. The word rap, derived from a 1960s slang word for conversation, generally consists of chanted, often improvised, street poetry accompanied ... ...
... Choral Society. This was a choral society in Washington, DC composed of some 200 African American singers for the purpose of performing Coleridge-Taylor's works. This society sponsored Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's first visit to the United States where he conducted them in a concert at Constitution Hall. He died in Croydon, in 1912....
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. Even before he was four, he had amazing powers of musical memory and ear-sophistication. Mozart's father, Leopold, felt that he was so great he decided to sign Wolfgang up for harpsichord lessons. At five years old, he was already composing his own music. And at age six, wolfgang was a keyboard vituoso, so great that Leopold took Wolfgang and Maria Anna, his daughter on a tour of Munich and Vienna. By Mozart's early teen years, he had mastered the piano, harpsichord, and violin. So, he wrote keyboard pieces, oratorios, symphonies, ...
Grappelli, Stephane Grappelli, Stephane (1908-1997), French violinist, one of the few musicians to adapt the violin successfully to jazz. Grappelli was born in Paris. He studied classical music at the Paris Conservatoire, but after hearing American improvisational jazz recordings, he dropped out of school and began playing in that style. By the 1930s Grappelli was giving concerts and recording with the great Belgian jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt as part of the Quintette du Hot Club de France. Their quintet was one of the most popular attractions in France, occasionally performing with Joseph...
