The Argentine Tango Master Astor Piazzolla is known as the creator of the neuvo tango, and his compositions reflect a blend of traditional Argentine Tango along with Jazz and Classical influences. Piazzolla revered the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, particularly...
Carla Bley who lived from1936 to 2023, was an American Jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader. She was an important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, and a pioneer in the development of independent artist-owned record labels. Her haunting...
In 2012, 12-year-old Ismael Paris, then a grade 6 student at an inner-city school in Scarborough, Ontario experienced Ensemble Vivant’s inspiring music education performance program, conducted through the registered not-for-profit charity Euterpe: Music Is The Key,...
Making Art not War, by composer Richard Whiteman is a beautiful piece of music arranged for solo bass and piano. Richard was inspired by a 7-year-old visual artist who sold her paintings to help comfort her people during wartime strife. If only we could shift our...
To this day, the fugues written by the great German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, who lived from 1685 to 1750, stand at the pinnacle of this form, and remain a model for composers from around the world. J. S. Bach brought the art of fugue writing, with its...
