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Letters for the Ages: Great Musicians edited by James Drake and Edward Smyth (Bloomsbury Continuum) The heartbreaking Heiligenstadt Testament written by Beethoven on becoming deaf and Elton John’s ...

In late 2020, Azar Mohebbi Tehrani passed away at the age of 73, due to complications that arose from contracting COVID. It’s a piece of news that barely made a blip in mainstream Western media, but ...

The vast gulf we now perceive between classical and popular music didn’t exist a century or even half a century ago. Music was music. Then as now, a vastly larger audience preferred the popular kind — ...

On December 20 the glamorous Former Ladies of the Supremes will grace the stage at the Showcase Theater in San Rafael. They'll be singing old familiar favorites as they recreate both the final days, ...

For the past half-century, the pursuit of electronic pop has given ambitious artists the tools to transcend the limitations of pop itself. Pioneering work by Jon Hassell, Brian Eno and Neu! took the ...

Write about the "best" classic pop music and readers will respond from the heart, soul and gut. I've learned that lesson during the past couple of weeks after first revealing my favorites from the ...

Some of the best songs in the history of popular music are truly undefinable, and that is what, in part, makes them so phenomenally iconic. These classic songs that can’t be pigeon-holed into one ...

Caravanserai Music announced a free concert for the community, featuring salsa, classical, and popular music, on Sunday, Oct. 16 at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg. As part of its mission ...