Portal:Music
Welcome to Wikipedia's portal for music. Music consists of sound heard over time. It is predominantly used to evoke emotion or thought in the listener. Music is often described as an art form that involves organized sounds and silence. It is considered by some cultures to be a language in and of itself. Music is also used as an accompaniment to dance, as a part of some religious rituals and a means to communicate with spirits. Within the arts, music can be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and an auditory art form though the definitions of music vary according to culture and social context.
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Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation; influenced by African-American music, he began composing. After a brief period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, he embarked on a full-time career as a composer in Paris and then in nearby Grez-sur-Loing, where he and his wife Jelka lived (except during the First World War) for the rest of their lives.Delius's first successes came in Germany. In Delius's native Britain, it was 1907 before his music made regular appearances in concert programmes, after Thomas Beecham took it up. Beecham conducted the full premiere of A Mass of Life in London in 1909 and mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of Delius's works. After 1918 Delius became paralysed and blind, but completed some late compositions between 1928 and 1932 with the aid of an amanuensis, Eric Fenby.
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- ...that Cecilia Bartoli sang the title role of Bellini's Norma for the first time in concert in the Konzerthaus Dortmund (pictured)?
- ...that the Eurythmics released eight studio albums between 1981 and 1999 and sold over 75 million records?
- ...that Siobhan Magnus, a contestant on the ninth season of American Idol, started singing in public during a elementary school concert when she sang "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie?
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- April 22: Musician Prince dies aged 57
- February 18: Taylor Swift's 1989 wins Grammy's Record of the year; Bad Blood wins the Best Music Video
- February 17: 'Earned It' earns The Weeknd his first Grammy
- February 16: Ed Sheeran wins Song of Year Grammy for Thinking Out Loud
- August 21: Cilla Black funeral held in Liverpool
- June 25: Petition pressures City of Edinburgh Council to review clause affecting live music scene
- June 13: English actor Christopher Lee dies aged 93
- May 30: U2 tour manager, Dennis Sheehan dies in Los Angeles hotel room at 68
- May 28: B.B. King's daughters allege blues musician was poisoned
- May 24: Taylor Swift breaks Vevo record
- Birthdays in Music: June 11
- Donnie Van Zandt, American of 38 Special fame, turns 72.
- Dan Lavery, American bassist with Tonic, turns 55.
- Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American session musician (bassist), turns 68.
- Frank Beard (musician), American drummer with ZZ Top, turns 75.
- Nils Lindberg, Swedish composer and pianist, turns 91.
- Bernard Purdie, American drummer, turns 85.
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Alternative rock | Christian music | Classical guitar | Classical music | Country music |
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