What started as a volunteer program utilizing Berklee College Students in 1996 at the Boston Children’s Hospital has evolved into a program with four certified music professionals working 130 hours a week, all in the hopes of easing child patients anxieties and helping them cope with their illnesses. Melissa Bailey writing for the Boston Globe recently published an article focusing on the program and it’s impact on the hospital and its patients. Bailey interviewed Joanna […]
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The Rolling Stone reports this week that Queen guitarist Brian May, “has issued a stern statement denouncing the usage” of the band’s famous anthem, “We Are the Champions” by Donald Trump. The track played while Trump walked onstage after his final victory in the Republican Primaries Tuesday night. After receiving, “an avalanche of complaints,” May came forward on his website to denounce Trump’s use of the song and confirm that permission was never sought nor […]
Jane Little, of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra died Sunday, May 15th, doing what she loved best, playing her double-bass and making music onstage. Little began playing with the Symphony in 1945 when she was just 16 years old. In February she was awarded a Guinness World Record after reaching her 71st anniversary with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She was 87 years old at the time of her death. You can read more of Little’s story […]
(AP) – Local Pawtucket Rhode Island artist Rebekah Major has gained recent attention for a project started last March titled “365 Days of Prince.” The project came to light after the shocking death of music icon Prince last week. When speaking to the Associated Press, Major said she started the project to “improve as an artist” and that Prince resonated with her because his music, canadian rx prescription drugstore, Canadian Drugstore cheapest prices for cialis […]
Alex Vadukul of the New York Times recently took a tour through Queens alongside Mickey Leigh, the younger brother of Ramone’s front man Joey Ramone. Visiting sites such as the pair’s childhood homes, Forest Hill High School, which all of the band members attended, and the band’s “primitive rehearsal space,” a basement where Leigh recalls, “…opening this door and getting hit by the smell and sound of the Ramones,” Vadukul was sure to hit all […]