Mozart is still generating hits — millions of them, in fact. A jubilee year of celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth ended Friday with a flourish: As a harpsichord player tapped out a posthumous premiere of a previously unknown tune, a new online database of all of Mozart’s works got its 20 […]
With its monster-selling Vertigo world tour complete, U2 may be ready to rock less, according to frontman Bono
“Our band has certainly reached the end of where we’ve been at for the last couple of albums,” the newly dubbed honorary knight said during a BBC Radio interview earlier this week. “I want to see what else […]
Placido Domingo says he has a dream. He’s in Vienna at 2 a.m. and his yearning to see the performance taking place at the Metropolitan Opera in New York is instantly fulfilled by switching on a television.
The renowned Spanish tenor’s dream may not be far from reality in the digital age.
Domingo is singing in one […]
In a city that lost several beloved institutions in 2006, the sound coming out of Chicago’s jazz scene is providing a year-end coda no one wants to hear.
The Jazz Showcase, this jazz-drenched city’s oldest club dedicated to the musical form and the second-oldest U.S. jazz venue after New York’s Village Vanguard, is closing its doors […]
More than 8,500 James Brown fans filled an arena bearing his name Saturday in a final, joyful farewell to the singer that seemed as fitting for a civil rights leader as for “The Godfather of Soul.”
Mourners returned to Brown’s hometown to pay tribute to the musician, who some fans also considered a political figure.
“‘I’m black […]
