The idiom “face the music” has been a staple in the English language for decades, first appearing in the August 1834 issue of the New-Hampshire statesman and state journal, according to The Phrase ...

Our favourite songs not only have the power to breathe new energy into our lives, but they also connect people of all ages and backgrounds. Music speaks when words fail. This week, we look into how ...

Is Idiom, from composer, saxophonist, and flutist Anna Webber, new classical music or jazz? Yes. Is the music scored or improvised? Again, yes. Last question: Is it demanding or easy on the ears? Both ...

It really took a lot of effort as it is totally different from what I have been doing. Songs like chinni chinni, aarane and vadakku are not the kind of songs I get to do every day. Directors like ...

Once a choirboy, always a choirboy? Wexford-born, Manhattan- based musician and songwriter Pierce Turner is unequivocal about early influences. As a boy growing up in Wexford in the 1960s, his local ...

Rasikas of Panchavadyam, the indigenous temple orchestra, and Sopanasangeetham will miss seeing the fragile frame of Thrikkampuram Krishnankutty Marar who enchanted them with elegant phrases on the ...

Roger Sessions, a serious, shiny-pated New Englander of 53 who teaches at the University of California, is ranked by other U.S. composers as one of the most serious and most original of them all. But ...