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John Philip Sousa 5: I Love a Parade! Jul 28, 2012

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Before television, radio, and the movies, it used to be a very big deal when the circus came to town. Circus parades and performances were always accompanied by marches called […]

Giacomo Puccini 4: Classical Music that Turned into Musical Theater Jun 23, 2012

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Jonathan Larson, the composer of the musical “Rent,” used the same plot for this musical as Puccini did for La Bohème. Other composers also used classical music when they wrote […]

Giacomo Puccini 3: Bohemian Music Jun 16, 2012

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Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème is about struggling artists in Paris. Its title means “the bohemian lifestyle.” But Bohemia isn't in France; it's in the Czech Republic. Other composers such […]

Giacomo Puccini 2: A Brief History of Italian Opera Jun 09, 2012

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Around the year 1600, Italian composers started writing theater pieces that use music all the way through them. Instead of speaking, characters in operas sing their lines. From Claudio Monteverdi, […]

Giacomo Puccini 1: About Giacomo Puccini Jun 02, 2012

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By the time Italian composer Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858, there had already been four generations of musicians in his hometown of Lucca. Most were church musicians, but Giacomo […]

Franz Joseph Haydn 6: Firsts Mar 31, 2007

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A collection of musical firsts, including the first string quartet, the first use of trombones in a symphony, and the first professional musician to make a recording.

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