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Welcome to Wikipedia's portal for Music. Music is sound in time. Music is often described as an art form that involves organized sounds and silence. It is considered by some cultures to be a language or an accompaniment to a dance 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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Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Polish: Symfonia pieśni żałosnych), is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. The work is indicative of the transition between Górecki's dissonant earlier manner and his more tonal later style.
A solo soprano sings a different Polish text in each of the three movements. The first is a Silesian folk song, the second a message written on the wall of a Gestapo cell during World War II, and the third a 15th-century Polish lament of Mary, mother of Jesus. The first and third movements are written from the perspective of a parent who has lost a child, and the second movement from that of a child who has lost a parent. The dominant themes of the symphony are motherhood and separation through war. (More...)
...that Frank Zappa won a Grammy award for the album Jazz from Hell, which was composed using, and entirely performed by, the Synclavier synthesizer (pictured)?
...that the Industrial Workers of the World's Little Red Songbook has helped spread that group’s message?
...that Kassav' is the most popular band to ever emerge from the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe?
...that Japanese taiko drums (pictured) are played with wooden sticks called bachi?
...that the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion, with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina?
...that the bass player Jaco Pastorius was killed by a night club bouncer, after being refused entry to a Santana concert?
...that Austrian composer Alban Berg encoded names and messages in his works using the Twelve-tone technique, and wrote program music referring to his secret love for novelist Franz Werfel's sister?
...that French singer Alizée's performance of her song J'en ai marre was the inspiration of the female Night Elf dance in World of Warcraft?
- Birthdays in Music: June 15
- Muff Winwood, Brit songwriter and record producer with Spencer Davis Group, turns 65.
- Demis Roussos, Greek bassist and vocalist, turns 65.
- Noddy Holder, Brit singer and rhythm guitarist with Slade, turns 62.
- Kai Eckhardt, German bassist and composer with Garaj Mahal, turns 47.
- Yoshimi Iwasaki, Japanese actress and singer, turns 47.
- Andrea Rost, Hungarian lyric soprano, turns 46.
- Idalis DeLeon, American VJ, actress, and singer with Seduction, turns 42.
- Ice Cube, American rapper-turned-actor, turns 39.
- Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano singer, turns 38.
- Johnny Hallyday, French Victoires de la Musique award-winning singer and actor, turns 65.
- Gavin Greenaway, Brit composer and conductor, turns 44.
- Bif Naked, (born Beth Torbert) Canadian punk rock singer, turns 37.
- Hans Erik Husby, Norwegian vocalist of Turbonegro fame, turns 36.
- William Dean Martin, American guitarist and keyboardist of Good Charlotte fame, turns 27.
- Julia Fischer, German violinist, turns 25.
- Nadine Coyle, Irish girl group vocalist of Girls Aloud fame, turns 23.
- June 14: Foam manufacturer settles for US$25 million over Station nightclub fire
- June 9: CTV acquires rights to 'The Hockey Theme'
- June 7: UK tabloid Daily Star pays libel damages to Ozzy Osbourne
- June 2: American musician Bo Diddley dies at age 79
- May 30: X performs at the TLA in Philadelphia
- May 25: Dima Bilan wins the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest for Russia
- May 22: Wikinews Shorts: May 22, 2008
- May 21: Eurovision 2008: First semi-final held in Belgrade
- May 12: Dottie Rambo dies in tour bus crash
- May 12: Ben Folds performs at Western Connecticut State University
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