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The organization canceled panels on harassment and Gamergate because of threats of violence. BuzzFeed and Vox say they will pull out of the conference unless SXSW reverses its decision.

A group of authors had sued over Google's effort to compile a digital library, arguing the project was illegal. An appeals court found the program complies with copyright law.

Would Joan of Arc be locked up if she were around today? Hearing voices, infiltrating a royal court, waging war. She'd either be a national heroine or…

Remember when your folks kept encouraging you to try new (and sometimes weird-looking) foods, saying, "How do you know you don't like it if you haven't…

If you've read anything about composers such as Mozart or Beethoven, you know that they were prodigious improvisors. Can you imagine going to a…

El Sistema was founded in 1975 by Jose Antonio Abreu, a musician, economist and former cabinet minister.   Mr. Abreu used music to pull hundreds of…

When Johann Sebastian Bach joined the choir at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, it was already 475 years old. Â Now, the choir celebrates its 800th birthday…

Most of us probably imagine "classical" composers immersing themselves in a daily diet of the masters...Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Stravinsky, etc. You can…

Most of us are at least passingly familiar with the story of the city of Pompeii. When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, Pompeii was burned and buried in…

Two weeks ago I manned the Classical 101 table at Picnic with the Pops in its new digs, Columbus Commons. I had been unimpressed by the move from the…