The past year gave us a batch of top-rating songs and well-liked popular tunes. We hope this year will give us again a pack of finely crafted and top-grossing songs in the charts. Let’s do a little reminiscing as we go through Rolling Stones’ 100 Best Songs of 2007. Here’s the top ten.
1 “Roc [...]
2007 has been a great year for the music industry. While others are busy for their countdown of the best music/album for this year, I found one interesting post that reminded me of some people who have lived and die with their most loved craft. Titled “Remembering Music Lost in 2007” by Jason Rosenbaum, this [...]
According to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, these are the Top 25 most-performed “Holiday” songs for the first five years of the 21st Century:
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) – Mel Tormé, Robert Wells
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town – Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas [...]
An enchanting story about violinist Fritz Kreisler tells how he once came across a beautiful instrument he wanted to acquire. When he finally raised the money for the violin, he returned to buy it and learned that it had already been sold to a collector.
He went to the new owner’s home in order to try [...]
Here’s more:
“When words leave off, music begins.”
Heinrich Heine (German Poet and Writer, 1797-1856)
“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”
santiz E. Y. Harburg (American Lyricist, Librettist and Song Writer, 1896-1981)
“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
Frederick Delius (English Composer, one of [...]
Music-lovers, we all are. Let’s hear what famous and legendary people (from playwrights to poets, artists to authors, composers to critics and some more) say about our well-loved craft:
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Russian moral Thinker, Novelist and Philosopher, notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics. [...]
