Now we know what you're thinking. The only thing in our lives that was/is polyphonic is a ringtone on a Nokia, but it turns out that polyphonic singing is a rare and bizarre talent that some people ...
Popular singing has a highly valued place in Georgian culture. Polyphonic singing, in the Georgian language, is a secular tradition in a country whose language and culture have often been oppressed by ...
Seto Lelo Polyphonic singing, Estonian folk costumes, Russian arts & crafts, smoke saunas. In Estonia, Christine travels to the Setomaa region, visits an Seto Orthodox church, meets the indigenous ...
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with musician Tim DeLaughter about his choral rock group, The Polyphonic Spree, and its new album, "Salvage Enterprise." When you write for a living, writer's block can be a ...
Welcome to the feast! We’re invited to a traditional Georgian ‘Supra’ to immerse ourselves in the magic of Georgian polyphonic singing. The table groans with food, the wine flows, and the singing ...
We have all heard it, yet most of us would not be able to name it. The term polyphony (from the Greek for “many sounds”) is used to describe music that employs simultaneous yet independent melodies.
Just when it seemed as if pop music couldn't get any more predictable, along comes a group of 25 Texans in homemade white robes singing scary psychedelic songs like "Light & Day (Reach for the Sun)," ...
Children watch the musicians in the “Children’s Messiah.” (Courtesy of Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico) George Frideric Handel penned one of the most famous pieces in the classical canon to benefit a ...
When you write for a living, writer's block can be a nightmare. TIM DELAUGHTER: I just couldn't write a song to save my life. And that's kind of not a good place to be in. RASCOE: Musician Tim ...