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The state’s retailers are pushing lawmakers to put in place permanently a three-day sales tax holiday in August for clothing and school supplies. And...

The Castellani-Andriaccio Duo consists of guitarists Joanne Castellani and Michael Andriaccio, who joined forces way back in 1975 in Toronto. They're…

Dayton city leaders have signed an agreement with two companies to redevelop a downtown landmark. Cross Street Partners and Dayton-based Miller...

[VIDEO IS DEAD] The Ninth Symphony of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was expected the be a big celebratory piece with a large orchestra, soloists,…

A while ago, I wrote about period instrument vs. modern instrument performances and touched on just a few of the issues involved in comparing and…

AUDIO PIECE AT END This would have been a good case for the History Detectives. Count Unico Wilhem van Wassenaer was a Dutch nobleman whose identity as…

[I EDITED; BUT THIS IS STILL JUST A SLEW OF YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH THE ONLY CONNECTIVE THREAD BEING THAT THEY ALL APPEARED ON WHAT'S MY LINE] My grandparents…

Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was born on this date in 1881 and died in 1945. He wrote some of the most viscerally exciting music of the 20th Century.…

Among new recordings we've received, this one was brought to my attention, coming as it does, so close to Ravi Shankar's 90th birthday that I wrote about…

Tian Tian, the male giant panda at the National Zoo, was pretty happy about the heaps of snow falling on the nation's capital.