George Morgan - Singles Collection 1949-62George Morgan was a country singer from Tennessee who was described in the same terms as Eddy Arnold and Jim Reeves as a "country crooner", with as much in common with the likes of Bing Crosby and Perry Como as with his peers in the honky tonk realm. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry even before he had made a record, and when the Opry moved to it's new home in 1974, he was last artist to perform at the old one, and the first to perform at the new

Johann Sebastian Bach himself described the Ascension Oratorio "Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen" (BWV 11) as an "Oratorio Festo Ascensionis Christi"

interrupted by war service

Ace is delighted to continue with Jon Savage's highly respected year-by-year series documenting the music scene on a world stage

as well as his performances of the several orchestral suites which he composed and recorded under his own name over the years

With the blurring of the boundaries between the genres

It makes for an intriguing and very entertaining musical snapshot of a year when WWII came to a close

but this set focuses on the early years of her career as she established her reputation and laid the groundwork for her prolific album output through the late '50s and early '60s

she recorded a number of songs in a friend's cellar

and not surprisingly features a host of significant jazz personalities

It was Stefan Zweig who wrote a particularly colorful description of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Messiah

Jaroslav Krcek is very specific composer

who was an important personality in the musical life of the late nineteenth century