Rapsody (aka Marianna Evans) started rapping at North Carolina State University, performing in collectives before splitting to go solo, releasing her first studio album in
Today’s pick takes us back to the 15th century, when the engine of Western musical creativity was the Franco-Flemish School. A star of the set,
Any of Joseph Haydn’s seventy-odd string quartets will offer you a moment of cheery escapism. They might even trick you into thinking you’re back in
Made famous by Simon and Garkunkel in 1967, who used it for the soundtrack of The Graduate, the duo actually pinched Scarborough Fair from English folk musician Martin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings I remember first hearing this work as a child, and being immediately enraptured by those thick opening chords.
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