Why monkeys really are the kings of the swingers: Ability to appreciate music evolved 30m years ago in common ancestor of humans and primates, study claims. Research could explain why chimps drum on tree roots in the wildAnd it suggests that language is based on primal appreciation of music By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 02:20 GMT, 14 November 2013 | Updated: 02:20 GMT, 14 November 2013 The ability to make and appreciate music may have evolved 30million years ago in the common ancestor of humans and monkeys, a new study suggests.
The research by academics from the University of Vienna, Austria, could help explain why chimpanzees drum on tree roots and monkey calls have a singing-like quality. And its findings suggest that the ability to use language is rooted in a much more primal appreciation of the tonality and rhythm of music. Musician Mark Vis brings piano to streets of Brighton. Stradivarius trees: Searching for perfect musical wood. 13 April 2013Last updated at 20:13 ET By John Laurenson BBC News Switzerland is home to some of the best violin makers in the world.
But how do they know which tree will make a top quality violin? A wander through the forest with a master tree picker gives an idea of the enormous experience and instinct required. Bette Midler - The Rose. Only Men Aloud - Guide Me O thou Great Jehovah. My favorite Christmas Music. By guest blogger Maya Rodale, author of smart and sassy romance novels My listening to Christmas music is usually limited to whatever is playing in the shops or whatever is on the soundtrack to holiday-themed romantic comedies, which means it’s basically limited to that Mariah Carey song (you know the one I’m talking about!).
But these are the very few that I have purchased and played around the house to get into the spirit of things: Bob Dylan: Because his raspy, almost grouchy voice is warm and funny in holiday songs. Elvis Presley: This album IS Christmas for me. I remember listening to it on the car ride up to our relative’s house for the holiday. Candle in the Wind tops UK chart of charts – 123 records that sold a million. Elton John, whose Candle in the Wind is the UK's biggest-selling single ever.
Photograph: Joseph Guay for the Guardian It is a music chart in which Don't You Want Me? By the Human League sits outside the top 20 but above the Beatles' Can't Buy Me Love. Lennon and McCartney's 1964 hit, in turn, is just ahead of Whitney Houston's power ballad I Will Always Love You, followed by the Three Lions football anthem and Ken Dodd's cheesy 1965 song Tears. The records are ranked by sales in the most authoritative chart of the UK's top-selling singles to have been issued. Compiled by the Official Charts Company to mark the 60th anniversary of the singles chart, the list features a total of 123 records that have sold more than one million copies since the chart began in 1952.
Classic BRIT Awards 2012: stars of the show - Pictures, Classic FM. Farewell-andy-the-crooner-who-made-the-everyday-sound-romantic-8180923. His light tenor voice lacked passion but breathed romance.
“You’re Just Too Good to Be True” and “Can’t Get Used to Losing You” were the epitome of “easy listening”. Dean Martin called it “musical milk and cookies”. The music suited Williams’ bland good looks and easy manner. His face, haircut, polo-neck jumpers and voice formed a package of niceness, a continuum of cosiness, that was as friendly offstage as on. “I guess I’ve never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be,” he once said. Williams was born in a small town in Iowa where, he used to joke, so little happened that crowds would gather to watch someone get a haircut.
New Bob Dylan album moving with the times. His 35th studio album, Tempest, is officially due out on Tuesday, but his record company Columbia is harnessing the power of the Intenet to the fullest to generate buzz.
On Wednesday, all 10 tracks were available for streaming for free, and for an unspecified limited time, on iTunes, Apple's online jukebox, which hailed Tempest as "remarkable. " But it all started on August 27 when opening track Duquesne Whistle got its world premiere on NPR Online, the US public radio website whose All Songs Considered blog is best known as a springboard for little-known indie acts. Two days later, the video for Duquesne Whistle was unveiled on the website of the left-leaning British newspaper The Guardian, which has a large readership in the United States. Then last Friday, listentobobdylan.com posted a map of locations in the United States and nine other countries where selected tracks from Tempest would be available for random streaming onto mobile devices.
EuroMillions winners to expand music shop. Winning a EuroMillions jackpot of £148m would normally prompt you to buy a house, go on holiday, or maybe take of care of some debts.
But for a Suffolk couple who have just won the rollover fortune, the plan is quite different. Adrian Bayford owns and runs the Suffolk Music Centre, a popular second-hand instrument and record shop, in Haverhill. Il Divo - She. Olympic opening ceremony soundtrack becomes download hit. BBC Natural World Symphony's "The Great Dance Part II" BBC Natural World Symphony's "The Great Dance Part I" What a Wonderful World by Eva Cassidy on Wonderful World - Free Music Streaming, Online Music, Videos. Lang Lang at Latitude - Pictures, Classic FM. Lang Lang performs Chopin Etude from Latitude Festival. Alfie Boe & Laura Wright - Land of Hope & Glory. Still Rolling after all these years: Stones celebrate 50th anniversary. Rolling Stones: defining moments. Scarborough Fair - Celtic Woman live performance HD. Katherine Jenkins. Cheryl Baker & Katherine Jenkins The Flower Duet. Katherine Jenkins. OBE ribbon Early life and education[edit] Jenkins was born in Neath, Wales,[5] where she and her sister Laura were raised by their parents Selwyn John and Susan.
She has half-sisters from her father's first marriage, neither of whom she has met. [citation needed] Katherine Jenkins is ultra glamorous in sparkly gown as she is chauffeur driven to the stage in a convertible Bentley. By J J Anisiobi Published: 00:28 GMT, 6 July 2012 | Updated: 06:43 GMT, 6 July 2012 Mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins is fast becoming a true diva in her own right.
Time To Say Goodbye - Katherine Jenkins. Katherine Jenkins & Juan Diego Flórez - Only Make Believe. Eva cassidy - Bridge Over Troubled Water. Ballet. Le vent (ballet super slow motion) TOM JONES - SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME (LIVE) Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual(1965) Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat. TOM JONES - DELILAH. From car boot sale to palace: Diana's long-lost record collection saved by the MoS - and returned to her delighted sons. By Polly Dunbar Published: 21:10 GMT, 7 July 2012 | Updated: 22:29 GMT, 7 July 2012 A young Diana in pumps practising her ballet.
She was a huge fan of pop music. BBC Proms 2012 - Eight performances not to miss. 2012 is a big year for Britain.
Some events come around just once in a lifetime – the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, the Transit of Venus and the London Olympics – but the world’s biggest music festival, the BBC Proms, is something we can count on every summer. Visiting European orchestras this year include the great Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and from the Americas, the St Louis Symphony and the Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra. Conductors Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink, Valery Gergiev and Simon Rattle direct performances of music ranging from Beethoven to Boulez and beyond, with such international soloists as pianists Murray Perahia, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Imogen Cooper, Nelson Freire and Yefim Bronfman, violinists Nicola Benedetti, Tasmin Little, Christian Tetzlaff and Nikolai Znaider, bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, tenor Joseph Calleja, and the famous flautist James Galway.