I attended the launch of a “fake book” two weeks ago. The first time I heard the term “fake book,” I thought it meant those ...

Who were the three women in the iconic 1958 photo known as "A Great Day in Harlem"? All three left their mark on the music in ...

The well-equipped woodworking shop in Lee’s Summit allows residents and workers to fix things up, donate skills to good cause ...

Lee John Whittington, a philosopher who studied luck, didn’t think “unluckiness” was a quality people had. Then he met his ...

McGill and Ax played a recital of Schumann, Schubert, Beethoven, and several Americans. They began with a work that has begun ...

Becca Harvey’s resilience in the face of change and heartbreak is paying off as she reaches dream-come-true milestones in her ...

With the girl beside him, he has all that he requires. So long as they are alone together, and she is in his custody, so to ...

being among the participants. From the late 1790s, we read of import of musical instruments — violin, piano, flute, clarinet, etc., — and several grumbles about how the Madras weather was ...

He found nothing, including several of his instruments and thousands of pages of original sheet music ... and I had an 88-key digital piano that was gone. But the most valuable and important ...

Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and ...

“We were cursed with apartheid but blessed with great artists who shone a light on its impact and helped to guide us out of it ... minority government, some among Fugard’s audience abroad ...