Today in history: Who wrote the Pachelbel Canon?
Pachelbel’s Canon and Beethoven’s Fifth are two examples of very familiar classical music where the title and the composer are linked together. Beethoven is a household name. Johann Pachelbel is not....
View ArticleYou oughta know: Betty Carter, adventurous and inimitable
Celebrating anew the dearly departed whose impact on jazz remains hale and hearty. Name: Betty Carter Claim to fame: One of jazz’s most adventurous singers, Carter’s inimitable interpretations...
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Meetings in Ashbury Park: Peter Elkas meets and sings with Bruce Springsteen
On Jan. 14, 2012 Peter Elkas fulfilled a life long dream: he met and sang with his musical hero Bruce Springsteen. It all went down at the Paramount Theatre in Ashbury Park, New Jersey as part of an...
View ArticleMUSICAL PERFORMANCE: The Kills
Allison Mosshart and Jamie Hince are The Kills, they brought their sultry swagger to the show to perform their single, "Baby Says" from their fourth album Blood Pressures. The duo, who recently...
View ArticleR3 Weekend With Pete Morey: Go ape with an i-pad
It is Saturday the 3rd of March 2012. Its Music Freedom Day. This week there were two big media announcements involving the i-pad. #1 Apple maybe unveiling their next generation i-pad 3 on March 7th....
View ArticleTHIS WEEK: 9 Best Music Videos
What a week for music videos: the rambunctious return of Refused. British pub-rocker Nick Lowe's first video in eighteen years. And a game of video 'Choose Your Own Adventure' with Chairlift. Some of...
View ArticleThe Worst Collaborations Ever on RADIOGRAHAM
Hi, Saturday people! It's a great day for a Saturday! If you're the type of person who loves CBC Radio 3, you might not be the kind of person who likes Avril Lavigne, or Nickelback. In fact, I'd...
View ArticleRADIOGRAHAM - Delicious Hot Fudge Sundae!
Mmmm, Sunday... I actually kind of regret Googling 'hot fudge Sunday' just now. Because now I'm hungry! Get your mind out of the gutter. Since I'm all distracted by my hunger today, I'm not going to...
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Congratulations, Mr. Cohen: 21 Leonard Cohen Covers That Aren't 'Hallelujah'
He's your man: PEN - the world's oldest literary and human rights organization - held their first ever Songwriting Awards, and two musical legends were honoured: rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry, and...
View ArticleThe Dears at Hillside Festival circa 2007: Concerts from the Radio 3 Vaults
Montreal pop-rock band the Dears steered their way to Guelph for a Hillside Festival concert back in 2007. The Dears formed in 1995 and, while the band’s lineup has changed many times over the years,...
View ArticleR3 Weekend With Pete Morey: Angelina gets a leg up on twitter!
Greetings to you this Sunday the 4th of March 2012. Pete Morey here. Its been a week since Angelia Jolie’s right leg took the world by storm. Angie’s right leg now has a twitter account of its own...
View ArticleThe aire of the Soulquarians
The Soulquarians are a little-known, but highly influential group in the neo-soul genre. Despite core members D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, ?uestlove and J Dilla being big names synonymous with neo-soul and...
View ArticleDifferent shades of blues, from Delta to Chicago
Like any form of music, blues has its versions, variations, off-shoots, flavours, styles and sub-genres. Hokum, West Coast, Piedmont, swamp – the list goes on. Distinguishing one from the other can be...
View ArticleThe Sunday night experiment: Julia Holter’s FACT Mix 316
Julia Holter is a classically trained Los Angeles native who has a thing for the art of the Middle Ages. Her 2011 LP Tragedy is a concept album about the Greek myth of Hippolytus, who was dragged to...
View ArticleJoel Plaskett's Scrappy Happiness: Track nine -- "Time Flies"
Joel Plaskett is recording and producing a song a week for the next ten weeks for his new album, Scrappy Happiness, and debuting them on CBC Music. Follow along on all the latest at...
View ArticleNew music from Plants and Animals
http://music.cbc.ca/play/artist/Plants-and-Animals/The-End-of-That Montreal's Plants and Animals show off thier musical flora and fauna with the title track from their latest album The End Of That....
View ArticleUpstairs, Downstairs: Entry-level classical music and the true nature of Rock...
Before it walks into our lives and makes itself comfortable, a beloved piece of classical music first has to get in the door. To do that, most great pieces borrow a trick from popular music, and turn...
View ArticleNational Aboriginal Music Countdown for March 5
"The National Aboriginal Music Countdown" is a weekly radio show that features 40 songs from across North America and some indigenous music from New Zealand and Australia. It is produced by NCI-FM in...
View ArticleSweatin' To The Indies is coming back!
One of the most popular series of podcasts we have ever released here at CBC Radio 3 is Sweatin' to the Indies, our workout podcasts for all those who want to excercise to music. The first Sweatin' to...
View ArticleMusic that moves me: Verdi’s passion captivates Eleanor Wachtel
Eleanor Wachtel is the host of CBC Radio’s Writers & Company and Wachtel on the Arts, and she’s the author of Original Minds and Random Illuminations. For Canadians, her name is synonymous with...
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