About Music and Musicians
Text & MP3 Files

In This Collection

• [TA] - 2011-05-08 - Making Music Together, in Person and in Cyberspace
• [SN] - 2010-05-11 - Guitar Heroes: Les Paul, B. B. King, Willie Nelson, Chuck Berry and Others
• [SN] - 2007-10-22 - Musical Training Found Important for Communications Skills

Elsewhere on this Website

• In the "This is America" Collection
  • [TA] - 2009-07-26 - From Traditional to 'Freak,' the Evolution in American Folk Music
  • [TA] - 2010-07-11 - Classical Music, but With a Modern Sound
  • [TA] - 2010-07-15 - Classical Music, as Defined by Reinvention
• Also, go to the "Musicians" section on the "About People" Collection page.
  • Aaron Copland, Bess Lomax Hawes, Billie Holiday, Beverly Sills, Bo Diddley, Irving Berlin, Celia Cruz, Charlie Parker, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley, George Gershwin, Hank Williams, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Jerome Kern, John Coltrane, John Lewis, Johnny Cash, Julia Ward Howe, Lena Horne, Leonard Bernstein, Les Paul, Louis Armstrong, Maria Callas, Marian Anderson, Michael Jackson, Nina Simone, Patsy Cline, Paul Robeson, Ray Charles, Richard Rodgers, Roger Miller, Sam Cooke, Scott Joplin, Shirley Horn, Stephen Foster, Todd Duncan, and Woody Guthrie

About

• These are good for people studying English because it is possible to read along while listening.
• These are in VOA's Special English.
• These will print very cleanly (without printing the MP3 player and menu.)
• The source of the original pre-edited material is http://voanews.com/specialenglish/.
  • "All text, audio and video material produced exclusively by the Voice of America
    is public domain. However, some images and graphics are licensed for use and
    covered by all applicable copyright laws."
• Though the source material was in the public domain, I have done some editing. If you need the public domain version of any of these stories, please visit http://voanews.com/specialenglish/.

Other VOA Material on This Web Site

• Voice of America Special English Study