Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983). The Invention of Tradition, edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, is a collection of essays on invented traditions in a variety of states, regions, and colonies, most of which are closely related to Great Britain. As a collection of ...
According to Wikipedia sources: Mendelssohn was born on February 3, 1809 in Hamburg, Germany. He was the grandson of the prominent philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. As was the custom amongst many Jews in those days: Mendelssohn’s father decided to adopt the Christian faith in 1816 when Felix was just 7 years of age. Felix Mendelssohn was ...
Have you ever wondered what the symphony conductor is looking at when not otherwise occupied with eye to eye communication with various sections of the ensemble? It’s simple. He or she has everyone’s music on the stand, arranged vertically in a specific order. In addition to keeping track of all these parts at once, the ...
Northeast Ohio comes alive in 2006 with new music venues and shows. By most accounts, Youngstown, the forgotten city, is coming alive. The cultural presence is growing in town where the steel mills have rusted away. If you want to get away from the hustle and bustle of Pittsburgh or Cleveland and enjoy a great ...
Oh, no! You’ve been dreading it all week! Today’s the day for your piano lesson; the one your parents insist will make you the life of the party someday. How would you feel if, along with your anxieties about being a disappointment to your family by not really playing well, your piano teacher said, “Today ...
In a whimsically purrful mode, here are five cat-friendly songs from that cattiest of music genre… Classical Music! 1. Maurice Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilège: The Cat Sample: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2BCyDlUKMk (starting from 6:00 minute on) This coolly psychedelic opera about a spoiled boy whose abuse of the furniture ignites some delicious reproaches from the no-longer-long-suffering inanimate ...
Ideas do not spontaneously appear. People do not go to bed one night with a certain set of beliefs and wake up in the morning with a new set. The evolution of ideas is a complex process which takes place slowly over many years. It is influenced by countless individuals and always occurs within the ...