The Philadelphia Singers was the mid-Atlantic region's premier chorus for over forty years, garnering national acclaim for artistic excellence. Since 1972, the Singers consistently provided the Philadelphia community with the highest-quality performances in the choral arts and partnered with many of the most renowned musical institutions in the region.
Founded by Curtis Institute of Music graduate Michael Korn, The Philadelphia Singers began as a 32-voice chamber ensemble that performed an extensive repertoire that ranged from Renaissance-era to contemporary works in an annual concert series. The group disbanded at the end of the 2014-15 Season.
L'Europe moderne renonçant à la vieille idée de monarchie universelle, pontificale ou impériale, naît au temps des fractures religieuses, politiques et militaires qui accompagnent l'apparition des monarchies nationales. La réflexion sur l'idée d'Europe est alors renvoyée à l'abstraction. Mais si, du modèle utopique de Thomas More au projet de paix perpétuelle de l'abbé de Saint-Pierre, les chimères ne manquent pas Sully ou Henri IV, Éméric Crucé, Comenius, Leibniz ou William Penn , elles posent déjà la vraie question du fédéralisme et des institutions supranationales. …
Pebbles is an extensive series of compilation albums in both LP and CD formats that have been issued on several record labels, though mostly by AIP. Together with the companion Highs in the Mid-Sixties series, the Pebbles series made available over 800 obscure, mostly American "Original Punk Rock" songs recorded in the mid-1960s - primarily known today as the garage rock and psychedelic rock genres - that were previously known only to a handful of collectors. In 2007, the release of the Pebbles, Volume 11: Northern California CD marked the final album in the Pebbles series (curiously, Vol. 12 had been issued in 1999).
Though 1972's Nuggets compilation reawakened listeners to the sounds of mid-'60s garage rock, it only focused on the tip of the iceberg…