When TCM channel host Dave Karger used to be a writer for Entertainment Weekly in his early days as a print journalist, he would focus a great deal on interviewing the big pop stars of the day, along ...

Cellist Susan Lamb Cook started the Great Composers Chamber Music Series at a time when the need for music performance was paramount in Sacramento. The Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera had taken the ...

In the 1890s, Broadway music was a staid affair, alternating between antimacassar operetta, sentimental ballads, jigs and ...

Jean Barraqué is a 33-year-old French composer who detests daylight, the concertgoing public (“Asses! Imbeciles!”) and his own music. His ambition in life, he explains, is “to live 60 years, more or ...

How many Irish composers do you know? Aficionados of Irish classical and folk music will of course know of many. Outside of this, the average music lover's knowledge of Irish composers is likely ...

High atop downtown’s J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, there is a locked, unmarked room that contains some of the city’s most important artifacts. One day this summer, I found myself sitting there on ...

Magnus Granberg was born in Umea in northern Sweden in 1974. He studied saxophone and improvisation at the University of Gothenberg and in New York in his late teens and early twenties. He was ...