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Albert Einstein once remarked, “Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the…
The second day (check out day one here) of the 2023 Newport Jazz Festival, Saturday, August 5, 2023, can be…
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Far too often, people perceive music as a solely auditory experience, something heard but which does not affect the rest…
Joann Wolfgang von Goethe once remarked, "Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” But the philosopher is hardly the…
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