Ray Charles loved country music enough to risk his career recording it. As it turns out, the results payed off handsomely. When they call you “the genius,” you learn to trust your instincts. On June 2 ...
Do you associate minor chords with sad music and major chords with happy music? If you do, you probably grew up surrounded by music that follows the basic rules of Western music theory. But not ...
Terence Blanchard's “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” was staged by the Metropolitan Opera in New York in September 2021, becoming the first-ever opera by a Black composer to be produced by the company. In ...
A block of medical silicone = muddy footsteps. A toy car riding down an air conditioning duct = tanks rolling into the battlefield. Sound designers Markus Stemler, Frank Kruse and their team made use ...
The notes used in Western music—or, more accurately, the relationships between the notes used in Western music—have a strange power. Bobby McFerrin demonstrated this dramatically by showing that an ...
The New Sounds Festival at Western Michigan University presents concerts performed by top contemporary music ensembles and solo artists, in addition to concerts featuring Western faculty and our ...
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