July 21, 2026
Tag: symphony #5
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A Memoir of a Listener
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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich’s exceptional career was launched in 1926 with the premiereof his first symphony – his graduation piece. He quickly established himself at the forefront of young Soviet composers. In the years since, his music has been a major component in every symphony orchestra’s repertoire – classical music for those who claim to not
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April 21, 2022 6 Comments
The Mambo Craze blazed through New York City nightclubs from the 1940s through the early 1960s. The influence of Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants, the extraordinary visible success of Desi Arnaz (“I Love Lucy”) and Xavier Cugat, and the comedian Cantinflas, was so great that even the staid Waldorf-Astoria Hotel featured mambo dancing.