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Youve Heard of The Birth of the Blues Heres one of those word-association games. If we said waltz, youd probably think of Vienna, Austria. Closer to our home, if we said Dixieland, New Orleans, Louisiana, would likely rush to mind. Country music? Nas

VOA标准英语2011--Christmas Concert Hits Jazzy Note

Christmas Concert Hits Jazzy Note It's the holiday season in the United States and choirs across the country are staging special Christmas concerts. Typically, the singers are accompanied by pianos, organs and, sometimes, even a full orchestra. But a

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Scott Joplin played the piano at clubs and bars throughout Sedalia. He wrote 44 original rags that put an emphasis on the off-beats within scores. He also wrote a complete ragtime opera. Here's one of those word-association games. If we said waltz, y

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This girl did not have to anything but watch the piano roll turn on her player piano at her home in New Jersey in 1940. Not long ago, the daily newspaper in Buffalo, New York, ran a story under the headline, The Day the Music Died. Not all music, but

VOA标准英语2011--Jazz Age Music Rocks Big Apple Club

JazzAgeMusicRocksBigAppleClub It's been nearly a century since the big band music of the Jazz Age was in full swing, but a nighttime visit to a nightclub in the Big Apple might have you fooled. On a recent Monday night at Sofias, a small nightclub in

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now we're going to remember a man who set a standard for movie trailers and commercials. His name was Alan Bleviss. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ALAN BLEVISS: Sex, Lies And Videotape. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) A. BLEVI

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