Thursday, May 16, 2024
Mia: Hey Tucker! Thanks for joining the guy’s spotlight today. Where do you live? Age, grade, siblings? Tucker: Hey, no problem! I live in Chattanooga, Tennessee, I’m 14, in 9th grade, and I have a younger brother named Mason. Mia: Nice! How many years have you done TPS and do […]
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) is one of the most famous baroque composers of all time. Born on March 4th in Venice, he was baptized immediately after birth due to his poor health. Growing up, Vivaldi was afflicted by “stretezza di petto,” or a “tightness of the chest.” Not known at that […]
Andrea Bocelli, an Italian tenor, rose to fame in 1994 by winning the 44th Sanremo Music Festival. Since then, Bocelli has recorded fifteen solo studio albums for both pop and classical music, three Greatest Hits albums, and nine complete operas. Currently, over 75 million albums from Andrea Bocelli have been […]
Many people know composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky, but does everyone know the great innovating Erik Satie? Satie may not be the most renowned musician, but he was one of the first people to compose more modern music, prompting the French Romanticism Era. Erik Satie was born […]
Beloved music accompanies the Advent and Christmas seasons. One particularly great holiday song, originated overseas, is played and sung all throughout the United States: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht! Alles schläft, einsam wacht. Even though these lyrics are in a different language—German—they might feel familiar. The English translation of the first […]