Thione Ballago Seck (born March 12, 1955) is one of Senegal's greatest singers and musicians in the mbalax genre, on par with Baaba Maal and Youssou N'dour although he hasn't achieved the same level of fame outside his country. Seck comes from a family of "griot" singers from the Wolof people of Sene
John Aloysius Fahey was born in Takoma Park, MD into a musical household--both his parents played the piano. On weekends, the family often attended performances of top country and bluegrass groups of the day, but it was hearing Bill Monroe's version of Jimmie Rodgers' "Blue Yodel No. 7" on the radio
Morton Feldman was a colleague of John Cage and part of the New York School of avant garde composers to emerge from the experimental wing of the 1950s. Early experiments using graphic scores and non-traditional notation yielded compelling and challenging new open forms emphasizing interpretive freed
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