For example, there is a photo of a sweater worn by 8-year-old Krystyna Chiger, who hid in the sewers (下水道)for more than a year. Visitors to the site can also view a photo of a light-blue dress worn by Sabina Kagan when she hid from the Nazi death squads (行刑队). Also i...
How old was Beethoven when he started losing his hearing? Around the age of 26, Beethoven began to hear that ringing and buzzing in his ears. In 1800, aged 30, he wrote from Vienna to a childhood friend - by then working as a doctor in Bonn - saying that he had been suffering for...
or the rag-and-bone man calling from his cart for old cloth and metal things we no longer needed. But then horseless carriages started to pass the front of the house. At first it was no more than whirring and clanking going past every hour or so, but...
A few decades later Pope Gregory – the man credited with invented the Gregorian chant – started the first music school in Europe: the Schola Cantorum. By this time, it was becoming quite fashionable to learn about music. Melodies were often learned and passed on by ear, as there was not...
(also known as diatonic modes). Certainly, from the time of J. S. Bach onwards most music was written in keys (for example, C major, D minor etc.). Modes are still incredibly relevant in music today particularly in the field of jazz music, due to the unusual and otherworldly sounds ...
My work takes me anywhere from playing Bach in Germany to the music of Prince at the Royal Albert Hall, working with orchestras like Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Contemporary Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic. I attended the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music in London, ...
2. Peter Davison, Invoking the Warrior from Adagio: Music for Tai Chi.An instructor at a gym I used to attend had the best workout music. I fell in love with this piece and asked her what it was so I could buy it. While listening, I imagined a scene from The Last Samuri when To...
You were a precocious musician, and music was your first love long before you got into visual art. What attracted you to it in the first place? When I was about eight years old, my sister brought home a stranger who asked to hide her...
Chang, who has been playing violin since he was 8-years old, is excited to see the progress that has been made in music cognition studies just in the last decade. "When I started my Ph.D. in 2013, only a few labs in the world were focusing on music," he says. "But now there ...
“When I came back I realized that I had been sort of blind to all of the artistic connections that we could make with artists everywhere, and also the interrelatedness of different music genres,” he said. He held up a round-bodied ...