La música medieval en Galicia

Year of Wonder introduces readers to one piece of music each day of the year, artfully selected from across genres, time periods, and composers. Burton-Hill offers short introductions to contextualize each piece, and makes the music come alive in modern and playful ways. A dazzling musical journey.

On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes "Summer in the City" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice." Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre, one that would eventually find him looking at the world through the bars of a jail...

Si tuvieras que poner una banda sonora a las distintas situaciones de tu vida, ¿sabrías cuál es la mejor canción para cada momento? Tanto si sabes la respuesta como si no, aquí tienes Alimenta tus oídos, un libro diferente que, a modo de jukebox, te hará recordar que la vida es un puro pentagrama musical. Y es que José Luis Salas, consumado maestro del periodismo musical, premio Antena de Oro 2013, director y presentador en Onda Cero de No son horas, el magacín más trepidante de la radio española, colaborador del programa Herrera en la onda y cinéfilo sin remedio que ha presentado ...

The legend states that “Nothing is truth, everything is permitted” were the last words of Hassan-I Sabbah, the mythical leader of the ancient and obscure sector of the Murderers. Writer William Burroughs became obsessed with this phrase, claiming it was a magic password. In the beginning of the 20th century, Burroughs continued viewing Sabbah as one of his mentors. His scandalous life and radical work had become a symbol for rebels and anarchists, eventually becoming one of the most ideological precursors in the punk movement. Then, the world surrendered before Nirvana, considering them...