The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra is set to end its centenary season with a grand finale. (Image: Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra) The Turangalîla Symphony is renowned for its lush Hollywood-style ...

The China Yearbook, available in both Chinese and English, emerged as one of the highlights at the London Book Fair held from March 11 to 13. As a definitive chronicle of China's development ...

He also does dare-devil velocity, as in Ethan Iverson’s tune “Aviation”, and makes totally convincing sense of the seemingly aleatoric parts of another compisition “Chamber Music”with its echoes of ...

When the U.S. military refused to let women pilots enlist and the editor of an aviation magazine scoffed at “the woman who thinks she ought to be flying a high-speed bomber when she really has not the ...

Photo: Louis Bryant III/Berkeley Symphony Countless composers have incorporated birdsong into their music, from Beethoven to Ottorino Respighi to — most famously — Olivier Messiaen. But the Finnish ...

The 15 players of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (fifth from left) All images by Mark Allen "Lost in Sight (Post-Pastoral)", begins with desperately-needed introspection, ...

Whether you are new to philosophy or already interested in deep ideas, these ten books offer valuable wisdom and are worth adding to your bookshelf. Written as a series of personal reflections, ...

Centering mostly on rabbis and their wayward, modernity-seeking children, the novel — a melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny — offers an ...

Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...