Yellow Submarine
Released on the 13th of January 1969, the film was finished toward the end of the Beatles career, and drew little enthusiasm then. In fact they completed it only to fulfil contractual obligations.
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Love Affairs
<p>Classical music always has been the domain of real-life lovers. Between the seventeenth century composer, Gesualdo, who murdered his wife, and the twentieth century story of the escape from Soviet
...Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven on Tour
<p>Experience the outstanding works that Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven composed for cities where they were guest-composers. Beginning with Mozart’s visits to Vienna, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Munich,
...Major Musical Milestones
<p>This series explores five musical concepts and ideas that were invented rather than evolved. These inventions not only had a dramatic effect on music, but also heavily influenced all of European
...How the Sixties Transformed Modern Music
<p>In ten years, popular music moved from simple and primitive to an art form as complex as any other. At the beginning of the sixties popular music was only listened to by screaming teenagers. By the
...Mojo Working - The Story of Chicago Blues
<p>Originating in the Mississippi Delta in the 1940s, the Chicago Blues became the cultural outlet for Black workers who had moved to industrial Chicago. A thriving club scene flourished on the South
...A Passage to India - A North Indian Classical Music Primer
<p>In the 1960’s North Indian Classical (Hindustani) music underwent a surge of popularity in the west, particularly with the influence of Ravi Shankar over the Beatles and other popular groups of the
...An Evening with Verdi
Verdi was one of the greatest composers of the 19th century, and his operas are some of the most loved of all time. His operas never fail to move us emotionally, to draw us in to his dramatic and
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