Tag: 1930s

August 31

Week 851: “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber’s most famous piece likely holds the title of “Saddest Piece of Music Ever Written”. It has…

August 24

Igor Stravinsky is remembered mostly for his innovation, dissonance, and modernism. If you were forced to summarize…

July 17

Dancing as a social event has completely changed over the past century. It’s still something…

February 1

Two things strike me about Olivier Messaien: a) He really liked birds, almost to a…

August 25

Being a professional entertainer is probably tough in any era, but can you imagine trying…

February 3

Billie Holiday’s 1952 recording of this song is the one that’s usually included on her…

October 29

The desire to be somewhere else (or someone else) has never been more perfectly captured…

October 1

I would love to tell you that I discovered this piece because I was researching…