George Ivan Morrison OBE (generally known as Van Morrison) (born August 31, 1945) is a Grammy Award-winning Northern Irish singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician during the last five decades. He plays a variety of instruments, including the gu

Classic rock, Contemplative, Dreamy, Eclectic, Enigmatic, Epic, Erotic, Intense, Lyrical, Pastoral, Political, Primal, Religious, Self-reflection, Sensual, Sincere, Singer/songwriter, Smoky, Spiritual, Sublime

One dance writer hailed Mark Morris as "our Mozart of Modern dance," and the comparison is not unfounded. Like Mozart, Morris has proven to be both an incredibly prolific artist and an outspoken rabble-rouser. But it is his musicality that truly cinches the comparison. Mark Morris began making dances

Bombast, Expansive, Joyful, Pastoral, Pure movement, Rough, Visceral

Bill Monroe was born in 1911 in Rosine, Kentucky, the youngest of eight children who worked their family's 655-acre farm and helped with mining and timber operations. His family was also musical: his mother sang and played harmonica, button accordian, and fiddle; his brother Charlie played the guitar

Improvised, Pastoral, Pioneering, Playful, Slangy

Jean Renoir inherited his acute feel for the poetry of landscapes -- from the famous Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, his father. Emotive impressions of place, captured by a slowly panning camera, underlie the movement of his narratives. Renoir's genius lay in fusing environments and narr

Dramatic, Epic, French impressionism, Parody, Pastoral, Witty