20th century music

Glenn Herbert Gould (25 September 1932 in Toronto ON – 4 October 1982) Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach's music. Gould was also known as a writer, composer, conductor, and broadcaster.

The Internet Archive has a surprisingly deep collection of records made of insect secretions.

Eric Bowman [American Contemporary Impressionist Painter] Website: ericbowman.com/ Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 This is a copyright work for educational purposes only.

orquesta style

Ralph, Lester (b,1877)- Dancing Maxixe, I- La Mode de L'époque Ragtime 1912-15

During its brief and rocky tenure from 1918 to 1924, pianist Gertrude Harvey Wright was one of four women in Seattle’s first black musicians’ union, the American Federation of Musicians’ Local 458. Wright, Virginia Hughes, a “Mrs. Austin,” and (Edythe) “Turnham,” all worked with their male counterparts at union headquarters and on the bandstand. After the demise of short-lived Local 458, they next joined and helped run Seattle’s follow-up segregated union, Local 493. This institution…

Vintage Dancers

Attached to this pin, I have created a table with the years/dates of when the four musicals were published and first performed. I think that it is important to know the history and timeline of these musicals, because they are so iconic. The table reflects that some musicals were published and first perfomed in the same year, or that there was a period of time in between. Nevertheless, these musicals did indeed hit the stage. (By: Haili Moore)

Good old times

Moscow Art Academic Theatre the Second, Russia, 1924. Designed by M.V. Libakov.

I spend two weeks on this gramophone, the model was bought online but it was way too high poly and I ended up rebuilding half of it. It is fun to make Asian style art, I'll see if I can do more of it.

Biography, Bach Discography and Photos of the artist

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Dancing to the gramophone - what an amazing delight (and technological advancement) that must have been back in its day. #Edwardian #1900s #ad #dancing #gramophone #vintage

Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963) One of the main innovators of musical modernism, Paul Hindemith was a composer, conductor, violist, educator, and theoretician. Of the four founders of modernism – Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, and Hindemith – one can argue that Hindemith was by far the most scholarly and intellectual in temperament.

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Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu