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The gods would smile on you if they knew how close you came to their own art. Claudio Monteverdi had a front-row seat for the birth of opera. Imagine that…

I had been disappointed that the 70th anniversary of Marian Anderson's 1939 Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial had passed…

J. S. Bach's birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, but sometimes his worthy sons get overlooked. Today (March 8) is the birthday of Carl Philipp…

In 1829 Felix Mendelssohn began the Bach revival that never ended. It's hard to believe now, but Johann Sebastian Bach's music was not well known to the…

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…

ONE AUDIO PIECE, UNKNOWN ORIGIN (COPYRIGHT ISSUES?) One hundred years ago, Rosa and Moishe Gershovitz bought an upright piano and had it hoisted into…

I don't know about you, but getting around Columbus this week was, at times, arduous and just not fun. Actually, I expect you do know, if you ventured…

Sony Classical releases Jascha Heifetz – The Complete Album Collection, available March 22, 2011, a box set of legendary Lithuanian violinist Jascha…

The Tunisian President declared a state of emergency for 30 days and an overnight curfew following the explosion that ripped through a bus carrying presidential security on a main road in Tunis.

However the Supreme Court rules on affirmative action, it will affect the lives of college-bound teens. So we asked them: Should college admissions decisions take race into consideration?