Every year during the holiday season, around 10000 Japanese choir and orchestra gather to perform Beethoven 9th Symphony. But why? Beethoven’s 9th Symphony ending choir or beethoven “Ode To Joy” is deeply beloved by the Japanese people. They sometimes call it Daiku” or “Big Nine”. Yutaka Sado, the conductor of this 10000 Japanese choir, notes …
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Astor Piazzolla – Oblivion Althought Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla’s works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. Oblivion is one of his most traditional tangos, less jazzy and Bartókian than his other widely circulated compositions (like Libertango).ِ It was written in 1982 and became …
“On the nature of daylight” is a well-known song from max Richter’s 2004 landmark album “The Blue Notebooks”. The album was a protest record against the Iraq War using music as an externalized meditation on violence. Download On The Nature Of Daylight sheet music Max Richter: On the nature of daylight song in movies …
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People around the world watched in horror as the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral burns in Paris. One of the items inside the cathedral that musical community worried about was the historic 8,000-pipe organ, which was built in the 1730s by François Thierry and expanded in the 1860s by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Following fears over the fate …
The oldest surviving melody in the world was discovered on a clay tablet with cuneiform text (the ancient Hurrian language) in the Royal Palace of Ugarit (modern-day Ras Shamra, Syria) in the 1950s, containing a Hurrian Hymn which is dedicated the moon god’s wife, Nikkal. In addition to the instructions for the melody to be …