Sep 10, 2015
By Aviv Kammay “Always unpredictable, a bit more inventive than most” (Leonard Bernstein on the Beatles, 1967) “If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of the Beatles” (Aaron Copland) These two quotes from a pair of American classical music giants beautifully capture the significance of the Beatles, unmatched in the history of popular music. Take unprecedented originality and creativity in songwriting and combine it with a historical social phenomenon and you get a very powerful compound that generates fandom and scholarship, connecting generations of human beings around the world for over half a…READ MORE