Tag: music

National Vinyl Record Day

.Reading time 9 minutes.

On 12th August each year, you are encouraged to celebrate National Vinyl Record Day and play records on the turntable rather than hitting play on your regular online music streamer. It started with Emile Berliner, a German-born American inventor who in 1887, further developed the wax cylinder based phonograph which had earlier been created by Thomas […]

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Giacomo Puccini – 100th Anniversary of His Death

.Reading time 6 minutes.

By Francesca Lungarotti On November 29, 2024 the world will celebrate the centenary of the death of Giacomo Puccini, the last of a dynasty of composers and who became the leading Italian composer of his generation. Puccini was born on December 22, 1858 in Lucca, a village in Tuscany, Italy. He was raised along with […]

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Spotlight on Long Visual Press

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Long Visual Press, founded in 2021, is an established photojournalism and photo agency based in Bogota, Colombia. The agency represents 20 photographers across Colombia and internationally in the USA and Portugal. Covering the geopolitically important country of Colombia, the agency and its photographers have added more than nine thousand images to the worldwide market since […]

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