Bass viol made in Hamburg, Germany in 1726 by Martin Voigt. Ebony inlaid with mother-of-pearl, ebony ribs with ivory stringing. From the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
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Walk Off The Earth covers “Little Boxes,” the 1962 song made famous by Womenfolk and Pete Seeger.
The original Alice Cooper band performs their cover of Rolf Harris’ 1962 “Sun Arise.”
Australian singer-songwriter Rolf Harris performs his 1962 hit “Sun Arise.” The lyrics are based on aboriginal stories. The song was covered by Alice Cooper on their 1971 album Love It To Death.
May Day Guitarmy May 1, NYC
Enlisting 1000 Musicians for a May Day Music March
All strings, shakers, and voices welcome
Bring your guitar (or other portable string instrument)
All levels of musicians from complete beginner to shredder needed
Assemble at noon @ Bryant Park by the Gertrude Stein statue
March from Bryant Park to Union Square
Performance in Union SquareOWSMusicGroup at gmail dot com / @OWSMusicGroup
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Joaquin Rodrigo’s gorgeous Concierto de Aranjuez (1939) as performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 2005. The guitarist is the legendary John Williams.
2Cellos (Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser) perform Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal.” © 2011 Sony Music Entertainment.
Alice Cooper. (1973). “Sick Things” from Billion Dollar Babies. Burbank, California, USA: Warner Brothers Records.
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Howlin’ Wolf. (1910-1976). American blues musician and singer.
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The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.
They said, “You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are.”
The man replied, “Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.”
—Wallace Stevens. (1937). “The Man With The Blue Guitar.”
This image is of a guitar decorated with elements from Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 painting “The Starry Night.” The Wallace Stevens poem excerpted above, however, is regarded as having been inspired by the 1903 Pablo Picasso painting “The Old Guitarist,” which Stevens had seen when it was exhibited in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Nayanna Holley. (b. 1984). American jazz singer and musician. Photograph by Paul R. Guinta.
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Ligeti: Requiem IV Lacrimosa (by MonalisaDeLego)
Patti Smith’s “Because the Night” (by drakep)