Category Archives: Chronos: Arts & Culture

In my opinion, this is possibly one of the greatest and most productive decades. Arts and Culture, for example, has boomed so much during this decade. Arts and Culture: This is the decade of the greatest movie productions, in my opinion. … Continue reading →

Arts and Culture In June Margaret Mitchell publishes the iconic work Gone With the Wind. The coming-of-age story features Scarlett O’Hara, a wealthy plantation owner’s daughter, who suddenly finds herself in poverty after Sherman’s march. Soon after initial publication it became the … Continue reading →

Arts & Culture: In February of 1924, George Gershwin’s acclaimed musical composition Rhapsody in Blue premiered in the concert “An Experiment in Modern Music” at Aeolian Hall in New York. Written for a jazz band and solo piano, Gershwin’s piece combined … Continue reading →

Art and Culture The Jazz Singer, release in October of 1927, is the first feature-length film in American cinema that also includes sound. This film marked the decline of silent film and spawned the production of “talkies”(another name for feature-length … Continue reading →

Arts and Culture: 1925 was a year for the American arts.  On February 21st, The New Yorker, a top-tier literary magazine still today, published its first issue.  Even more vital to American literature was the publication of The Great Gatsby, … Continue reading →

Arts and Culture On February 12, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was performed for the first time at the Aeolian Hall in New York City. The composition combined elements of classical music with jazz and secured Gershwin’s a reputation as … Continue reading →