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we revisit some favorites from the flourishing music scene in Lagos in the
1970s. We'll hear from Segun Bucknor, Orlando Julius Ekemode, Chief
Stephen Osita Osadebe, Celestine Ukwu, Sir Victor Uwaifo, and many more.
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explores the music of Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996). Largely
self-taught as a composer, Takemitsu was prolific, writing hundreds of
works -chamber music, choral, orchestral, electroacoustic- and over ninety
film scores. Early on, he was influenced by the...
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Randy Weston, who celebrated the African origins of jazz and the myriad
other styles created by Africans in the Americas. Weston passed away Sept. 1
at the age of 92, bringing to a close an illustrious 60+ year career, in
which he stressed that Africanness, studied it's ...
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