Music Review | Elmer Gantry: He May Be Loathsome, but This Evangelist Has Pipes
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The opera, as seen at Montclair State University in New Jersey, is a tunefully entertaining and thoughtful piece of theater.
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Jake Halpern has had a taste of fame. He found it fascinating -- and a little scary.
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It is unsettling evidence of oneâs own age and station in life to find that electronic music â once virgin territory for the young explorer â now includes within its ranks a small army of grand old men.
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LOS ANGELES  - There aren't many composers whose music is immediately identifiable after just a couple of whistled notes. Such is the influence of Ennio Morricone that all it takes is a bit of whistling to evoke the Italian composer's masterful, genre-defying work on the spaghetti westerns he scored for Sergio Leone -- films such as 1967's "A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."
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Love is blind, and so too is Linda Pugach, one of the loony-tuners in the somewhat sickening, mildly gonzo documentary âCrazy Love.â
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Theo Van Gogh was an unlikable sort, if you ask me. He derived a lot of pleasure from attacking orthodoxy and mocking any convictions other than his own.
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Critics and admirers alike have their say on what they hate and love about Rahman's music.
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Tom Petty was not an obvious choice for halftime entertainment at Super Bowl XLII, but his brawny, ringing riffs of his songs were aided by his frayed but stubborn voice.
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Atheist, objectivist and other freaky versions of the jolly old elf take a bite out of the traditional model. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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By Dan Craft  BLOOMINGTON - So many talented area musicians, so little organized information about them.  And Pat Rosenbaum isn't happy about it.   She's so unhappy, in fact, that she wants to rectify the situation - immediately.
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Artie Shaw, the brilliant but temperamental clarinetist and bandleader, whose recording of &quot;Begin the Beguine&quot; made him a household name and epitomized the Big Band
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Woody Allen's latest film touches on all the things he likes to ponder Â that there's no God, that life is savage and fleeting, that anyone potentially can get away with unspeakable acts if they don't have a conscience to bother them.
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Verdiâs talent for penetrating melodies goes a long way toward explaining why so flimsy a drama manages such potency in a strong performance.
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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Description: Film composer Elmer Bernstein, who died recently at 82, was perhaps best known for his rousing score to The Magnificent Seven.
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Woody Guthrie was a dust bowl drifter, a guitar strummer and a proto-folkie who wrote enduring songs about America's workers and underdogs. He also was a longtime New York City resident who relished Jewish culture and wrote pages of unpublished lyrics about Hanukkah, Jewish history and spirituality.
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The guy who created Winamp, unleashed Gnutella on the world and quit AOL after clashing with his corporate overlords is still chasing the music. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.