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Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier answers the internet's buzzing questions about instruments and musical theory. What is the difference between black and white piano keys? What ...
composite image left manny alvarez in a dark suit and white shirt standing in between two rows of bass violins; upper right a black and white image of metropolitan opera bassist marvin topolsky, ...
A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that ...
“Sound Formations: Artist, Musician, Instrument Maker,” an exhibition at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, is showcasing ...
Representation of Black artists and composers in classical music is low ... arts early to keep pace with their white peers, some of whom began playing instruments at a young age.
Larry Mizell, owner of Mizell Music ... send him instruments to repair or — mostly — to polish. Among the jobs Mizell said he's had are polishing brass plaque frames in the White House ...
A standard piano has 88 keys: 52 white and 36 black. But who decided this number would be the norm, and why? The king of instruments has played a significant role in music history. From concertos and ...
The "Creed" and "Black Panther" director breaks free of franchises for a wholly original project starring Michael B. Jordan and gospel singer Miles Caton.
shows how funk music ... Black Power movement in the 1970s, as Black people — and artists, in particular — rejected the Jim Crow era’s demands for assimilation into the purported primness of ...
There's rarely a moment in The White Lotus that isn't filled with music. Beyond composer Cristobal ... Lueng Lueng," an absolutely killer cover of Black Sabbath's 1970 classic "Iron Man." ...
Beyoncé’s country album took the music ... and its instruments to the southern Black community. The massive move into a new genre and its enormous success put the mostly white country music ...