A History of Film Music

Lullaby from the ballet Gayaneh. For Viola and Piano transcribed by the Carr-Petrova Duo In Gayaneh, a ballet composed in the 1930's, Aram Khachatu...

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Reducere. In 1957 "Peggy Sue, " by newcomer Buddy Holly and The Crickets, rose to #3 on the charts, quickly generating a gold record. Sung by hundreds of art...

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Description'Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, Bloom and grow forever' Often dismissed as kitsch sentimentalism, Rodgers and Hammerstein's The...

Alma Ros 's tragic story, from her birth and youth in the exalted musical circles of Vienna (her father was leader of the Vienna Philharmonic, her ...

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