This fun concert will reflect the roaring '20s when Florida resembled the Klondike Gold Rush—but the gold was in the sands of the state's beautiful beaches. People from all over the country rushed to ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Max Raabe of the Palast Orchester, which keeps pre-World War II German jazz alive for modern audiences. In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and ...
SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. — When multi-instrumentalists Jerron Paxton and Dennis Lichtman go out into the world together, they look to the past for inspiration. Growing up on opposite coasts — Paxton in Los ...
Prohibition is a concert performance that celebrates the vibrant music of the 1920s. The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra will feature vocalists Sarah Uriate Berry, Myra Maud, and John Riesen, bringing to ...
The 1920s were an age of excess, and Paul Whiteman, whose music is being celebrated this week by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, was a perfect icon for a flamboyant era. Everything about him was ...
In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and much of Europe, including Germany. Classical composers even began to meld jazz styles into their music. (SOUNDBITE OF WOLFGANG ...