Between the late 1890s and 1970s New York City’s music publishing district was known as “Tin Pan Alley”—a reference to the continuous sound of pianos emanating from nearly every open window nearby, allegedly causing a remark that it sounded like the banging of tin pans. And it is easy toContinue Reading
This playlist presents a musical evolution of this most popular of twentieth century ballroom dances as it grew from its schottische-like beginnings to its later streamlined sound. Continue Reading
m. Victor Herbert, w. Rida Johnson Young. The music only of this song first appeared in print in the piano-vocal score of the show Naughty Marietta, in the Overture and Entr’acte, published Nov. 7, 1910,^ by M. Witmark & Sons, New York, N.Y., and four other cities. In the firstContinue Reading
Between the late 1890s and 1970s New York City’s music publishing district was known as “Tin Pan Alley”—a reference to the continuous sound of pianos emanating from nearly every open window nearby, allegedly causing a remark that it sounded like the banging of tin pans. And it is easy toContinue Reading
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil paintingContinue Reading
June Purvis considers the power of the hunger strike and the importance of this radical form of protest to the suffragettes’ political arsenal 100 years ago “They fed me five weeks by the nose and at the end of that time my nose what they called ‘bit’ the tube, andContinue Reading
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