World Music
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1) How did you become interested in playing the ancient Nordic instruments like the lur etc? When I grew up we only had one radio channel in Norway. And on every Sunday afternoon there was a program with Norwegian folk music. This program I insisted on listening to as a 4-5 year old, […]
Claude Debussy was a French composer whose harmonic innovations opened the way to the radical musical changes of the 20th century. He was the founder of the so-called impressionist school of music. He was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on August 22, 1862 and trained at the Paris Conservatory, where he began studying at the age […]
Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in the city of Bonn, in western Germany. There, during his first years of life, he was exposed to a demanding musical training by a father obsessed with making him “the new Mozart.” Such questionable ambition, coupled with a no less dangerous character linked to alcoholism, directly affected […]
Many musicians came together to say their last farewell to a fellow artist who inspired many of them. Keith Flint, lead vocalist of The Prodigy was found dead in his home this Monday 4, in Essex, England. The 49-year-old musician always struggled with “dark periods” and apparent depression issues. In a very haunting final […]
1) What means Irish music tradition for you? It’s the background to my life! I was not born into it like many other Irish musicians whose father or mother played music but when I discovered it I was hooked! 2) Lifetime achievement award at the Folk awards.Tell me more about […]