DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My upstairs neighbours think they can mask their raucous sex with loud music — wrong. Beethoven’s fifth symphony isn’t masking anything, nor is the pounding rock music that ...
The Falmouth Book Festival concluded earlier this month, and these off-season events aim to keep the literary spirit alive in the area.
The Falmouth Book Festival concluded earlier this month, and these off-season events aim to keep the literary spirit alive in ...
ON 7 November 1867, Marya Salomea Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. She was the youngest of five children, and became known as “Manya” by her family. She was a ...
The Man Who Told the Truth" is the first biography of the legendary writer and a revealing portrait of a complex newsman. I spoke recently to author Richard Esposito. Welcome to the "News Hour." ...
Arranged as a chamber orchestra — a smaller ensemble harking back to those of Beethoven's day — the musicians treated each of these concertos almost as symphonies, so closely did they engage ...
Exchanges like this that reveal moments of despair and vulnerability by the seemingly eternally optimistic Lewis are partly what makes Greenberg’s biography of the civil rights icon so remarkable.
“Roll over Beethoven,” he hollered, “and tell Tchaikovsky the news!” Rock’n’roll is here to stay, Berry was saying – classical music’s deader than my duck-walk. Berry’s words and ...