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The term performance art takes on a new meaning in the sand animation by sand artist Ferenc Cakó. He adds an amazing visual aspect to Vivaldi's Four…

In addition to American athletes taking a lot of gold at the Olympics, American conductors are taking to the podium at the BBC Proms concerts in London.Â…

A grand jury has indicted former Ohio State star tailback Maurice Clarett on charges of robbing a man and a woman behind a downtown Columbus bar. Police…

Ned Rorem, a Quaker from Chicago out of Richmond, Indiana, he of the exquisite choral music and art songs, he of the sexually explicit published diaries,…

A 90th birthday celebration is usually a gathering of some friends and family, offering a chance to reminisce, swap stories, and eat cake. Ruth…

I read with horror the account of a young college student in a small Oklahoma town who lost his life because three adolescents were "bored and didn't have…

Music lovers are all too familiar with the word prodigy. Â Mozart qualified, certainly, as did Mendelssohn. Â Pianist Martha Argerich made her orchestral…

After Beethoven wrote nine symphonies, between 1800-1824, it was more difficult for composers to be taken seriously in the genre, to simply dash off…

Horowitz. Rubinstein. Cliburn. Gould. Those names conjure up thoughts of footlights, concert halls, and life in the public eye. Beyond the piano, those…

When Late-Romantic Austrian composer Gustav Mahler completed his First Symphony in 1888, he called it "Titan," thinking of it as a large five-movement…