Style and Techniques

On January 3, 1924, the Gershwin brothers were up late, George playing a game of pool with a friend and Ira perusing the morning edition of the next day’s The New York Herald. Among its pages Ira discovered an announcement for a concert called “An Experiment in Modern Music” [...]

Nuevo tango was created by Astor Piazzolla, a composer and bandoneón player, born in Mar del Plata, Argentina in 1921. When only 3 years old, he moved with his family to New York’s lower East Side. Oddly, it was in New York, where he lived until he was 15 years [...]