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6 hours ago · I recently read a story about a girl in the 1930s who enjoyed a strawberry soda at a soda fountain for a nickel. I looked it up, and the minimum wage in 1930 was 25 cents an hour. So at minimum, someone would need to work for twelve minutes to afford one strawberry soda at a soda fountain. Counterpoint, current federal minimum wage is $7.25.
22 hours ago · Counterpoint – two or more lines of music or melodies that are played at the same time. Music which uses counterpoint is said to be ‘contrapuntal’. ‘Imitative’ counterpoint is when the various parts are playing similar or identical melodies one after the other – canons and fugues are examples.
22 hours ago · Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to non-Western art musics. Classical music is often characterized by formality and ...
22 hours ago · Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ ɜːr n ɪ s t ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ /; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image.
22 hours ago · The mass song was a leading genre in Soviet music, especially during the 1930s and the war. The mass song influenced other genres, including the art song, opera, and film music. The most popular mass songs include Dunaevsky's Song of the Homeland, Isaakovsky's Katiusha, Novikov's Hymn of Democratic Youth of the World, and Aleksandrov's Sacred War.
22 hours ago · Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman . The plot takes place in a crumbling Broadway theater, now scheduled for demolition, previously home to a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies ). The evening follows a reunion of the Weismann Girls who performed during the interwar period.
22 hours ago · DISC – For the Mirare label, Guillaume Bellom records all of Richard Strauss’s works for solo piano. A panoramic writing Barely 1 hour 10 minutes of music… And yet it’s all there: the complete music that Strauss composed for solo piano, between 1881 and 1882, from the age of 17 to 18…
