NEW YORK—Pianist and composer Michael Brown is a storyteller. During a recent recital, he performed a polished program ...

NEW YORK—War photographer Chris Hondros took photos that have cemented the world's understanding of a great many significant ...

NEW YORK—The contemporary art world is notoriously convoluted. Billions and billions of dollars run through this market, which ...

NEW YORK—Director Bohdan Slama is fascinated with families; he has made five feature films, and every one of ...

NEW YORK—Brexit, Trump and Clinton, the French elections—democracy is on the tip of everyone's tongue. In today's world, ...

The act of creation—making something from nothing—is remarkable. Survey after survey reveals what a valued trait creativity is ...

That marriage plays a central role in Indian society is well known. But the romanticized elaborate weddings and ...

For all of Joseph Haydn's mastery of musical form—he is known as the "father" of the symphony and ...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) is perhaps one of the composers referred to most; his name often used as a metonym ...

The stories of Hercules, Odysseus, and Dido and Aeneas are some of the cornerstone tales of Western civilization, ...

NEW YORK—The mark of a great civilization is best and most completely left by its artistic achievements. This ...

Perfectionism triggers a stubbornness in Dutch designer Erik Kessels. "We're living in a time when, especially in the ...

What would you do if you stumbled across a million dollars in cash, lying on the ground somewhere ...

Opera is dramatic—it's emotionally expansive, sensorily explosive, and grand or even over-the-top. It also has the reputation of ...

When documentary filmmaker Kacey Cox heard that Anastasia Lin, an actress he'd previously worked with, had won Miss ...

Filmmaker Ido Fluk is not religious, but he has long been fascinated with the idea of faith and ...

The Associated Chamber Music Players (ACMP) is awarding grants to support chamber music education for all ages through ...

German violin virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter had just played a benefit concert in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under ...

At the turn of the 17th century, the great composer Claudio Monteverdi was stuck in Mantua, Italy, writing ...

When longtime director George Mendeluk was approached with a story that would be set in Ukraine in the ...

The practice of music therapy in the modern Western world may well have begun during the age of ...

NEW YORK—"Opera singers over the years are becoming better actors, because we can no longer hide away from ...

NEW YORK—There might now be more young classical musicians launching their careers than Mark Peskanov remembers ever seeing ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's six cello suites are some of the most popular classical music pieces. The prelude of ...

NEW YORK---Over the years, from performing chamber and quartet music at festivals and on tour, violist Luke Fleming has ...

NEW YORK—"I have to say, from where I'm sitting, I think chamber music is more popular than ever," ...

NEW YORK—Thinking about investing in a Stradivarius or a Guarneri del Gesù? Well, sound is the very last ...