Popsical

Popsical

Popsical is a musical genre in which Classical Music styles are merged into Pop Music arrangements.

Exponents of the genre include Billy Joel [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB05225792649F1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "St. Louis Post-Dispatch", February 20, 2000] , Russell Watson [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E6DC113AF936A35755C0A9649C8B63 "New York Times", June 5 2002] , and Bond [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1035854657353535871.html?mod=googlewsj "Wall Street Journal", October 29 2002] .

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Popera

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