Much ink has been spilled over this presidential election—but not nearly as much as was used in a long history of presidential memoirs and biographies.
Patti Smith has an array of influences, from The Doors to Arthur Rimbaud. Yet, there was another important influence who impacted her in more subtle ways.
A production fusing traditional Chinese opera with Western classical music took place in London in October, with a performance inspired by the life of Cai Lun, the man credited with the invention of ...
Nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts,” Beethoven wrote his publisher to describe the scene, which did nothing to help his incipient hearing loss. He dedicated the concerto not to ...