… composers of the world today. He is a house hold name, after writing many pieces for the piano and violin. He achieved greatness through patience and skill. It all started on December 16, 1770, in Bonn, Germany, where Ludwig Van Beethoven was…

… on June 12, 1941, Chick was studying piano by age four. After moving to New York at age seventeen, Chick began performing with many prominent musicians of the era including Maynard Ferguson, Kenny Dorham, Stan Getz, and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band.…

… Paganini is the greatest violinist of all time. Raised by a harsh and demanding father, Niccolo practiced incessantly as a child. Early on his skill was already as sharp and majestic as a perfectly cut diamond. He was so good at his music some people…

… University of Minnesota. I have decided to move to New York and where my idol, the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, is hospitalized with a rare hereditary disease of the nervous system. For the past 19 years I have been living with my parents in…

… complicated yet very fulfilling instrument. I was first intrigued by the guitar when I was sixteen years old. I don’t know what it was about the guitar that I found intriguing, but I knew I wanted to play it and become very much involved in it.…

… where did this all start? In fact the root of R&B run deep. Rhythm and Blue is a commonly used term to describe the sophisticated urban music, which started back as far back as the 1920’s. Over the decades, thanks to different artists and their…

… 30, 2002, I attended the ‘Africamix Festival’, a volunteer-based nonprofit organization of Africans seeking to use multicultural arts and music to help promote global awareness and prevention of child abuse and neglect. The festival was a 2-day event…

… instrument has dominated the way we make and listen to music. This instrument is the guitar. Over its long life the guitar has undergone many drastic and important changes. Its most recent change was came when the guitar was fused with electricity…

… What do you get when you put all of those three things together? The Big Picture, by Big L. The Big Picture was produced in 2000 shortly after the death of Big L (Lamont Coleman) in 1999. Even though the album was in progress and not complete at…

… wonder which television channel is better: MTV or BET? One is not better than the other, because everyone is entitled to their own opinion. If I had to choose, it would be MTV, because MTV is more diverse. MTV, short for Music Television, first…