Music

Healing Power of Performing Arts

December 8, 2011, 9:47 pm

Chinese medicine has a theory that may explain how the performing arts can be healing and nurturing to human life.

Artists Cover U2 Album for Charity

November 23, 2011, 1:17 pm

Covered, the unique covers album of U2′s seminal Achtung Baby, featuring Nine Inch Nails, Patti Smith, Depeche Mode, Jack White, the Killers, and others, is available for [...]

Music Briefs: Radiohead, R.E.M., Kate Bush and Roger Waters

November 22, 2011, 8:22 pm

Radiohead, R.E.M., Kate Bush and Roger Waters

200 Labels Withdraw from Spotify, Similar Services

November 21, 2011, 3:46 pm

Around 200 labels were pulled from streaming music sites including Spotify, Napster, Simfy, and Rdio by their parent company.

U2′s ‘Achtung Baby’ Twenty Years Later

November 19, 2011, 4:56 pm

“Achtung Baby”, a coveted album of the legendary pop/rock band U2, was re-released this week as a single disk and deluxe box set edition, to mark the original album’s 20th [...]

Vancouver Bids to Host 2013 Bollywood Awards

November 19, 2011, 11:25 am

Stars on stage at the closing of the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Weekend and Awards in Toronto in June.

Google Diversifies Into Music

November 17, 2011, 10:37 pm

Internet search giant Google Inc. is attempting to diversify into a new service offering: music.

Orchestra Nova Sets Sights on Young Listeners

November 3, 2011, 3:55 pm

Orchestra Nova, formerly known as The San Diego Chamber Orchestra, performed on Oct. 24 at the Sherwood Auditorium in La Jolla, Calif., with vigor and panache, led by its [...]

Opera Review: ‘Nabucco’ at the Met

October 31, 2011, 9:17 pm

Now at the Metropolitan Opera, “Nabucco” was Verdi’s first successful opera. Its most popular piece was the chorus’s “Va, pensiero,” which expresses the Israeli slaves’s [...]

Master Luthier of Hammer Dulcimers

October 31, 2011, 8:12 pm

At Master Works, Russell Cook, shares his enthusiasm for the ancient dulcimer. Master Works is a workshop he founded and it is known internationally, with Russell having won [...]