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AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentship
Royal Holloway, University of London & British Library
Project: The Music Collection of Paul Hirsch (1881-1951)—exploring the collecting practices of a German-Jewish émigré in WWII-era England.
Fully funded (Home & International applicants eligible).
Deadline: 25/04/2025
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage (album)
Recorded 60 years ago, today
The Penguin Guide to Jazz designated the album as part of its Core Collection, calling it "a colossal achievement from a man still just 24 years old".
Stephen Thomas Erlewine: "arguably his finest record of the '60s, reaching a perfect balance between accessible, lyrical jazz and chance-taking hard bop".
The album was presented with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. [Wikipedia]
Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Recorded 55 years ago, today
For what it's worth:
The song was supposedly written for Graham Nash after Nash's split from Joni Mitchell, though Young in interviews has been somewhat tentative in admitting or remembering this. [Wikipedia]
today my long-planned research appointment at the Tamiment Library & Wagner Labor Archives at NYU has finally come up. I'm mainly looking for music union materials from before WWII (A.F.M. locals 310 + 802) and maybe stuff about United Hebrew Trades if they have anything relevant to me. we'll see what I can find! If nothing else the union members booklets with address (of which I've only seen snippets on facebook) will be quite helpful.
Wanna know more about the context, structure and data of Gumpenhuber’s impressing theatre chronicles? 
Then check out our latest blog post 
which explores (among other things) rehearsals, performances, personnel records and some Easter Eggs. 
Read the English article: https://gudieen.hypotheses.org/612 Read the German article: https://gudie.hypotheses.org/953
#GuDie #Blog #DigitalHumanities #MusicHistory #Musicology #TheatreStudies #DigitalEdition #PerformanceData #Vienna #18thCentury
"I awoke this morning as one person and retired in the evening as another.”
#OnThisDay, 7 Mar 1838, Jenny Lind makes her stage debut in Sweden. She became a global star, but no recordings seem to survive. A fictionalised version appears in The Greatest Show.
We wrote about her real story, and some other famous opera singers, here: https://carvehername.org.uk/eight-famous-women-singers/
42 years ago, an iconic New Wave record was released, in a sleeve that looked like a floppy disk. The song was Blue Monday, by New Order. https://dfarq.homeip.net/blue-monday-by-new-order-released-1983/ #BlueMonday #NewOrder #NewWave #MusicHistory #1980sMusic #VinylRecords #FloppyDiskArt #IconicAlbums #RetroMusic #MusicLegends
Roy Ayers, the legendary jazz vibraphonist and composer, sampled by countless artists, dies at 84.
Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk.
His soul lingers in the vibrato always.
The Rise & Fall Of Easterfest
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-rise-fall-of-easterfest/
Book highlight from my most recent book about Felix Mendelssohn
#felixmendelssohn #musichistory #book #novel #books #Reader #author #classicalmusic
A thread of some photos from the Joseph and Lara Cherniavsky archival collection at YIVO. Russian Jewish musicians who were married & arrived in NYC around 1920, Lara was a pianist and arranger, and Joseph was a cellist, composer and bandleader. This seems to be backstage in the mid 1920s in Joseph's "Hasidic American Jazz Band" which was neither Hasidic nor Jazz, but was a vaudeville klezmer act featuring some of NY's finest.
I haven't tried playing them yet, but I thought I should make a post about the "original compositions" in the Al Glaser collection at YIVO. Whether or not they're really his, it's a numbered set that appears in several different versions in his collection, and obviously held some importance to him!
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/02/26/are-these-original-bucovina-klezmer-dances-by-al-glaser/
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Musicology (18th-19th c.)
Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Teaching & research in music history & analysis within a multidisciplinary environment. Expertise in choral conducting, accompaniment, or musical training desirable. Research should align with LUHCIE lab’s themes, with a focus on cultural history.
Deadline: 20/03/2025
Another piece of my transmedia research for my master degree. Here they are Sombra (Shadow) a rock group of the middle 70's that were from Monteros. Curiosity, i wasn't able until now to reach any of the members of the group. But made it to get one of their recording, lot of Santana influence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE--FiSEDWg #NowPlaying #tucuman #Music #musichistory #publichistory #histodon #histodons #argentina
One of the precursors of rock in #Tucuman the Blue Jets, twist and rock and roll in the middle of the 60,s. They were from Tafi Viejo and San Miguel de Tucumán #history #histodons #Music #musichistory #argentina #nowplaying
I know all about poison, I know all about fiery darts
I don’t care how rough the road is, show me where it starts
Whatever pleases You, tell it to my heart
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Song: “What Can I Do for You?”
Album: Saved
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/what-can-i-do-you/
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#Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry
If you love music and/or documentaries, I will highly - highly recommend that you run (do not walk) to your Hulu-capable streaming device and watch Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius). I've known about Sly and The Family Stone for most of my life, and have heard their music here and there, but I wasn't really around or aware enough to grok the sheer impact of this particular band on all the popular music that followed. I had no idea about the magnitude of what this man and his band accomplished and how they literally changed the world and the music that we hear today. Sly and The Family Stone is to music what Star Wars and The Matrix are to filmmaking.
Influencing everyone from Prince and Janet Jackson to LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, and Afrikaa Bambataa, there are so many songs or groups that depend on Sly Stone's music to be what they are, whether it be from the examples of the band or samples of their music.
Not to mention that this is "A Questlove Jawn" and I will pretty much watch anything produced by Questlove because the man seems to be good at everything he chooses to do, from drumming to filmmaking. Questlove treats Sly Lives! with the care, reverence, concern, candor, and authenticity that it deserves, and it makes for a fascinating and powerful documentary.
Don't watch it just because it's #BlackHistoryMonth or because it's about #MusicHistory. Watch it because it's just that good!
Friar’s Music Museum in Toronto, Ontario
A free museum of Toronto’s untold music history hidden inside a drugstore.#musichistory #museums #music #section-Atlas
Friar’s Music Museum
Celebrate Black History Month with Summer of Soul. This Oscar-winning documentary highlights the incredible Black talent of the 69 Harlem Cultural Festival. Our free lesson plans for grades 9-12 explore Black History, US History, Music History, Film Literacy, Current Events & more. Bring Black Joy & Black Excellence to your classroom!
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/summer-of-soul/
[Edited to add the trailer -- because it's amazing and you deserve to see it.]
#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #Histodons #Education #Homeschooling #Music #MusicHistory @education @histodons
Under the Island: Experimental Music in Ireland 1960 - 1994, by Nyahh Records
https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-island-experimental-music-in-ireland-1960-1994
