Klaus Döring's Classical Music/Klaus Döring's Klassische Musik

The James Last story commences on April 17th, 1929. He was born in Bremen, the third son for Louis and Martha Last, and christened Hans. His father, a post-office worker, was a keen amateur musician, competent on both drums and bandoneon. The brothers Last, Robert, Werner and young Hans, enjoyed their game of street football and so father Louis was pleased when all three expressed more than just an passing interest in music. By the age of nine, young Hans could play "Hanschen Klein", a German folk song in the piano, but his first music teacher, a lady, claimed at the age of ten he was totally unmusical. A year or so later with tutor number two, a gentleman, things started to happen. At the age of fourteen Hans was off to military school in Frankfurt where he studied brass, piano and tuba. Hans' parents were pleased with the appointment. It was hoped that he would emerge from the school as classically trained conductor. After passing his first exam, the school was bombed a...

By Elizabeth Davis , ClassicFM London As Disney’s Aladdin hits the stage in London’s West End, we've put together the ultimate test of Aladdin-fandom…  image: http://assets8.classicfm.com/2016/20/aladdin-a-whole-new-world-quiz-1463430388-article-0.jpg It's one of Disney’s best-loved films and the music, written by Alan Menken, is an iconic film score. In fact Menken won the Oscar in 1993 for Best Music – and it was this song, written with Tim Rice, that got the song-writing duo a double-header at the Academy Awards – with the Oscar for Best Original Song as well. But how well do *you* remember the words, street rat (as Jafar might say…)?