From Castle of Our Skins' sound portraits to Boston Lyric Opera's delightful sounding "Daughter of the Regiment," WBUR critic ...

In the sitting room where she often improvised “weird and beautiful melodies” on piano, the poet Emily Dickinson kept an Aeolian harp. Built for her by John Graves, a friend and distant cousin, the ...

Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire is one of the few remaining fragments of England’s original fenland. A place loved by naturalists for generations, it was Victorian botanists and entomologists who led the ...

Convinced they are rearing the Artur Rubinsteins or Peter Duchins of tomorrow—or at least children who will grow up to enjoy making music—U.S. parents are buying a record number of pianos. In 1966, ...

Paul Simon and Stephen Colbert sure seem to get along. Last year, Simon went on Stephen Colbert's Late Show and named his favorite Paul Simon songs, as well as one that he loathes. Since that time, ...

In the informative catalogue accompanying Jennie C. Jones’s “Ensemble” (on the Met’s roof), the artist talks about the inspiration behind her three large and elegant works, all acoustic sculptures ...

Friday’s sometimes memorable yet generally inconsistent bounty contrasted with Saturday’s largely gratifying and often stimulating Semi-final recital and Mozart concerto rounds. Each of the two ...

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