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Mal Reggendo

Il Travatore remains one of Guiseppe Verdi’s most popular operas, but it almost had a different name. Two, actually.

April 16, 2021
Xylophonia

For the first quarter of the 20th century, the xylophone was a studio engineer’s darling.

April 14, 2021
There be Sirens!

Have you heard the siren’s call today? You might have, and not even known it.

April 13, 2021
The Birth of Bebop

Coleman Hawkins got it in him one day to stray from the jazz norm, and he opened the door for a new style of music. Hawkins played tenor sax, which wasn’t really recognized as a jazz instrument until he helped make it one. Body and Soul, heard here from 1939, signaled a stylistic change in jazz; ...

April 12, 2021
Tricks of the Trade

Chances are you think of Houdini as the Father of Modern Magic…and you’re only one letter off.

April 9, 2021
Mascaras Alegres

Couples sway to the music, hand in hand, step matched for measured step. But we’re not in Austria, or Vienna…we’re in Ponce, Puerto Rico

April 6, 2021
Frankie And Johnny

Love, Loss and Cold-blooded killers…It’s Murder Ballad week.

April 2, 2021
Who Wants S’more(s)?

The best thing to happen to campfires since split wood.

March 30, 2021
Mambo Italiano

Wait…they banned what?

March 18, 2021
Rebecca

Victor Young and his Singing Strings

March 10, 2021