… Illinois. He grew up in East St. Louis. Miles collected records as a kid and for his 13th birthday received his first trumpet. By age 16, Miles was playing professionally and received his first real taste of what playing jazz was really about. Af…

… Rap, Hip-Hop, Gospel, Country? All of these are quite popular here in the United States and THE WORLD. but there is another form of music that you may not know much about that kids our age are dancing too: What is it: TECHNO! Show Preview…

… 1920s. During this year inventions and new technologies led the way to a new society. In 1928 the first commercial televisions were being produced. Blacks and women were beginning to play an important role in American culture. Amelia Earhart became…

… America. The “Affluent society” of 1950s was not only time of change, but also advancement. America had gotten out of World War II and was ready for a new evolution. The young people of the 50’s were full of energy and wanted to have a good time. Rock…

… was born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg Austria to Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Pertl. Leopold was the son of a bookbinder while Anna Maria was the daughter of a county official and amateur musician. Leopold himself was a violinist and worked as the…

… leaving a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas, Tupac Amaru Shakur became hip-hop’s first martyr. At 25, 2pac and his music had frequently focused on his own death, but after cheating it once, he was not so lucky the second time, and rap’s own Malcolm X…

… for whatever reason, they simply cannot replicate the quality of the material on their follow up recording. After the Dave Matthew’s Band’s first release, the breakthrough multi-platinum album “Under the Table and Dreaming,” the band faced the daunting…

… event Stomp. This took place at the First Union Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. I really did not know what to expect going into this, and I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed the event. As you could gather from the title of the show, Stomp was…

… of St. Martin in the Fields presented and preformed exquisitely three separate works: two concerti by Bach and Haydn and a string arrangement based on a Schubert quartet (arranged by Mahler). All three performances included the virtuosic Joshua…

… in 1971 by the Zen-On Music Publishers Co. of Tokyo, Japan, the Takahashi Flute School (part of the Suzuki Method,) was designed to aid beginning flutists in their journey to become professional. It is set up as an individual practice…