(CBS News) While the merits of classical music are almost limitless, it is oftentimes a bit tricky to get kids to listen to and love it. With this problem in mind, one of our favorite experimental ...
Imagine a magical place where colorful marionettes from around the globe sing, dance, and play folk tunes from their native lands. As they interact with the audience and tell their personal stories, ...
With 25 million YouTube hits, the musical comedy duo Igudesman & Joo is going viral with classical music. Mozart meets the “James Bond Theme” and the Bee Gees. “I Will Survive,” the disco hit, gets ...
Four pianists at one keyboard? Eight hands playing at once? Really? Yes, really! Recently, Anja Kalaba, Katie Stahl, Jessica Yuan and Eric Zhuang, all Manheim Township High School seniors, were ...
It might just be because I am getting old, but suddenly it seems like classical music is newly cool. Tár, Todd Field’s caustic portrait of a celebrity conductor, was the most critically consequential ...
The implication, of course, was that playing classical music was not fun. At about the same time, someone posted to Facebook a video of 3-year-old Jonathan in his living room "conducting" Brahms' ...
It’s hard to imagine, but there really was a time when classical music was the popular music of the day. Haydn, Beethoven and the boys were the “rock stars” of their time. If music fans wanted to hear ...
On Feb. 22, the Hamel Music Center will host the Undergraduate String Chamber Orchestra with the Monona Brass Quintet. The concert, which is all undergraduate-run, will include works by Leos Janacek, ...
A Japanese American composer, Akiho has thrilled audiences with music that features eye-popping elements like ping pong players, film of kung fu master Bruce Lee and most recently, a drumming ...
Weekend mornings anchor, CBS New York; Correspondent, CBS News and Stations Elaine Quijano is a weekend mornings anchor for CBS New York and a correspondent for CBS News and Stations, contributing to ...
Each summer, Pasadena families have the opportunity to enjoy classical music and have some really unusual fun - nothing stuffy about the gathering at the Pasadena Convention Center at 10:30 a.m. on ...