Quincy Jones: 14 songs to remember a music giant

Huge hidden Maya city discovered in Campeche (Mexico) | Listen to live operas, for free, from the Metropolitan Opera in New York

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Clara Nafría & Ismael Nafría
November 06, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

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  • Huge hidden Maya city discovered in Campeche (Mexico)

  • Listen to live operas, for free, from the Metropolitan Opera in New York

Quincy Jones: 14 songs to remember a music giant

This past Sunday, Quincy Jones, one of the key figures in United States popular music during recent decades, passed away at 91 years of age. As a music producer, Jones was responsible for the best-selling album of all time: Michael Jackson's "Thriller". He was also the producer of the song "We Are the World" in 1985.

But beyond production, Quincy Jones excelled in many other areas of music: as a movie soundtrack composer, as a trumpet player, as an orchestra conductor or as an arranger, as well as a singer. His artistic activity was recognized with countless awards throughout his career.

The New York Times has prepared a list of 14 key songs in the life of this brilliant artist, which can be listened to on Spotify or Apple Music:

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Huge hidden Maya city discovered in Campeche (Mexico)

Valeriana is the name given to a huge Maya city that has been recently discovered in the Mexican state of Campeche, in the southeast of the country, centuries after disappearing under the jungle.

The BBC website, among other media outlets, has provided numerous details about this discovery, which occurred accidentally when Luke Auld-Thomas, a doctoral student at Tulane University (United States), found "a laser study conducted by a Mexican organization for environmental monitoring."

It was a Lidar study, a technique that allows mapping objects underground from an airplane by firing laser pulses. When processing this data using archaeological methods, he realized that what lay there was a huge ancient city with pyramids, sports fields, districts, and amphitheaters, and it could have housed a population of between 30,000 and 50,000 people between 750 and 850 CE.

The original article about the discovery of Valeriana has been published in the journal Antiquity.

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Listen to live operas, for free, from the Metropolitan Opera in New York

The Metropolitan Opera in New York offers a weekly free audio broadcast, live and via streaming, of a featured opera.

This Wednesday, November 6, at 7:25 PM (New York time), Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar will be broadcast, and next Wednesday, November 13, it will be Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème.

Here is the schedule of upcoming broadcasts - through June 2025 - and access to the audio streaming.

The Metropolitan Opera also offers a paid high-definition video streaming service, "Met Opera on Demand," which provides access to more than 850 complete opera performances from their stage. This service costs $14.99 per month or $149.99 per year.

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