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Group portrait of septet of jazz musicians with instruments and trophy, ca. 1920. A septet is a formation containing exactly seven members. It is commonly associated with musical groups but can be applied to any situation where seven similar or related objects are considered a single unit, such as a seven-line stanza of poetry.
The festival has taken its model to Australia, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium and Canada and is one of the largest, most visible events drawing attention to sustainability and anti-poverty efforts for young people around the world. [3] The Global Citizen Music Festival was first held in New York City on September 29, 2012.
The Berkeley Ensemble is a British chamber music ensemble that explores little-known twentieth- and twenty first-century British chamber music alongside a more established repertoire. Founded in 2008 by members of Southbank Sinfonia , the ensemble reached the finals of the 2009 Royal Over-Seas League music competition and has since performed ...
In response to a reported request by Troyer for a work similar to Beethoven's Septet, Op. 20, Schubert composed the Octet in early 1824.The work was first performed at the home of Troyer's employer, the Archduke Rudolf (to whom Beethoven's Archduke Trio is dedicated) and included many of the musicians who premiered the Septet.
The Microscopic Septet is a jazz septet, founded in 1980 by saxophonist Phillip Johnston. [1] They played frequently in New York City , toured, and recorded until they disbanded in 1992.
At least one person died and 17 others were injured when part of a stage was blown down by wind at a music festival in Cullera, Spain, on Saturday, August 13, according to officials.The incident ...
Global Citizen has held an annual music festival since 2012, one of the organization's main events to raise awareness of global poverty and climate change; founded in 2008, it aims to end poverty by 2030. The live 2021 festival, held across six continents, was the largest, as part of Global Citizen's 2021 Recovery Plan for the World program.
Formed out of the male-dominated music scenes of jam music (in the case of Bonnaroo), late-’90s indie rock (Coachella), and early ’90s alternative and grunge (Lollapalooza), these festivals tend to celebrate diversity while dismissing the most popular pop acts — the ones who tend to dominate the charts and who tend so often to be female ...