While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

Melvin Van Peebles, whose low-budget 1971 phenomenon, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — an X-rated film about a Black ...

Chacon is the first Native American composer to win a Pulitzer Prize. His prize-winning work Voiceless Mass, performed in a ...

Anthony Davis is known worldwide as a composer of orchestral and chamber works. The New York Times has called Davis one of the greatest living composers.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, “Music is the universal language of mankind.” In a music review written 55 years later, George Bernard Shaw said, “Though music be a universal language, ...

Listen to an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. The New York Times has called Davis one of the ...

In “The Uncanny Muse,” David Hajdu offers a lively survey of centuries of machines that have served as instruments of ...

Soft Machine's longest-serving member Mike Ratledge, who also worked with Syd Barrett and Kevin Ayers, has died after a short ...

Songs With Words is the new album by vocalist and composer Malakoff Kowalski, together with pianists Igor Levit, Johanna Summer, and Chilly Gonzales set for release on March 21. Listen to the first ...

For composer Nathan Alexander, adhering to the film's themes was key to keeping the musical tones clear throughout.

Creator Cinco Paul and director Christopher Gattelli on the joys of bringing "Schmigadoon!" to the Kennedy Center.

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...