Midsummer Night's Dream / ManfredIn the Overture and Incidental Music to William Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' Felix Mendelssohn brings the illustrious company of elves, lovers' passions and the solitude of the forest or a moonlit night to musical life. It became a model for other literary reflections in music like Peter Tchaikovsky's 'Manfred Symphony.' It's four movements or "images," as the composer himself named them capture the world weariness of George Byron's

Built on the celebratory energy and raw spontaneity of the second-line brass band tradition

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The quality of his art is shown by the fact that his brother

Cole Porter

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The first mentioned is an early 'concept album'

exploring the instrument's potential in the challenging musical era following the emergence of bebop in the 1940s

"Cocktails For Two"

saxophone from Patrick Shiroishi

Maxine Sullivan was a stylish and versatile jazz and big band singer who was active in music for over half a century into the 1980s but whose most important recordings were during the first decade or so of her career from the late '30s through the 1940s

where stereo masters exist