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Janae Jean
Aug 28, 20234 min read
5 Chicagoland Arts Events for the Final Days of Summer
Arts Events for September School may be back in session, the sunset's may be coming noticeably earlier, and the most precocious of the...


Janae Jean
Mar 25, 20233 min read
Music Theory and Practice - Musical Motives or Motifs
Finding The Motivation Motivic Development What Makes A Musical Motive? A musical motive (sometimes motif) is the smallest...


Janae Jean
Dec 27, 20225 min read
Music Theory and Practice – So What's Bach Ever Done for us?
Or, how studying music history makes you a better musician–no matter what genre you work in. Studying the history of music is beneficial...


Janae Jean
Jul 12, 202112 min read
Music & Arts at the Movies – 5 Composer Biopics for Movie Night
5 Baroque and Classical Composer Biopics Music and movies have gone together since the earliest days of cinema. Silent films were...


Janae Jean
Jun 16, 20217 min read
Hilma af Klint – Swedish Painter and Mystic
The First Modern Western Abstract Artist The first Western Abstract artist may not be who many of us think it is. When art lovers talk...


Janae Jean
Feb 20, 20219 min read
Celebrating Black Artists for Black History Month – Visual Art
3 Influential Black Visual Artists One post, article, or even month can not possibly encapsulate the significant contributions that Black...
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