Welcome to our sand box. For months now, the NPR Ed Team has been playing with what we like to call "long listen" ideas — worthy stories that we can't tell in three or four minutes. For this week's ...

Pianist Katie Mahan at Schloss Aigen in Salzburg, once an important meeting place for Freemasons and the Illuminati. Mozart knew a lot of Freemasons. Lorenzo Da Ponte, Emanuel Schikaneder, the ...

Selecting the right composer is key when using classical music for focus. Composers like Bach and Mozart are often ...

“If music be the food of love, play on.” —William Shakespeare. Music is a salve for the psyche. Music therapy to soothe the soul is likely as old as music itself. Aristotle said that music represents ...

During rehearsals for “Madame Mozart, The Lacrimosa,” running Oct. 9-19 at Gloucester Stage, snippets of Mozart’s music serve as transitions, provide emotional emphasis, or simply deepen the ...

Bavaria Media and Beta Film are backing a new period drama from the makers of 'Sisi,' which reframes the Mozart mythos through the untold true story of Maria Anna Mozart, Amadeus' brilliant, forgotten ...