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Marrakech: The Style | Mustapha Blaoui’s Showroom
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Lemurs, Madagascar
Photo: Stephen AlvarezDecken’s sifakas appear right at home in their karst home in western Madagascar. These lemurs live...
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China’s Guangzhou opera house perches on a patch of grass like a spaceship that’s just touched down. (Photo from “Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls” by Victoria Newhouse)
In the last decade, concert hall construction has been booming. And according to architectural historian Victoria Newhouse, these buildings are changing our experience of live music in unexpected ways. She singles out two that reflect the extremes of the concert hall boom: the nearly billion-dollar opera house in Oslo, Norway (where visitors can walk on a slanted roof that leads to water) and the brand new opera house in Guangzhou, China, designed by Zaha Hadid. More.
The global fusion band Rupa and the April Fishes is on tour, traveling and powering its shows on bicycles.
In this video, The World reporter Lonny Shavelson captured the atmosphere and sounds as the band was out on the road in Northern California.
Happy Friday — here’s a Hindi rock video promoting the new “Avengers” movie.
Hollywood is looking to maximize revenues in India, a major market for movies. And the way to do that in the land of Bollywood is through music. More.
Artisans hand craft mridangums — drums used in Indian classical music.
In Chennai, India, it’s what’s called “the December Season”. It’s a time when the city comes alive with thousands of concerts featuring Carnatic music, the classical music of South India. People from around the world flock there through January to hear it live.
From PRI’s The World.
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A rap guide to evolution by Baba Brinkman — a Canadian rapper with a Master’s degree in English and a passion for Darwin.
In this interview on Living on Earth, Brinkman says the songs were a commission by scientist Mark Pallen, who fact-checked all the lyrics for scientific accuracy.
Watch this video of Brinkman performing “Performance, Feedback, Revision”:
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We all have ambitious dreams growing up. For Neil McCormick it was being a world-famous rock star.
Unfortunately for Neil, it was his childhood friend Bono who became famous.
In the audio above, Neil tells his story, including the time Bono embarrassed himself in front of Bob Dylan.
“Bibi Shake Shake” features Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making his music video debut.
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Thomas Edison didn’t have longevity in mind when he first invented the phonograph. Many of the device’s recordings were on cylinders and disks made of wax, vinyl, rubber, shellac and even tin-foil. We have lost much of the music from young America because of the materials’ fragile nature.
Fortunately, there is Chicago based Archeophone Records. The husband-and-wife team of Meagan Hennessey and Richard Martin, have collected and preserved about 1,400 recordings that are, in some cases, over 140 years old.
