Music is like a language which everyone understands. It is an art form capable of generating great emotional response. Meet some of the world's famous composers and musical performers in this collection of music-based stories.
Instead of allowing deafness to overwhelm him, Ludwig begins a period of prodigious and brilliant composition.
The original story of "The Nutcracker," by E.T.A. Hoffman, introduces us to the Nutcracker in Chapter 3 where this interesting wooden creature is call...
Katniss Everdeen survives two Hunger Games; now the rebels demand a price for saving her life from the second. She becomes the Mockingjay, but what do...
On September 22, 1943, the Italian soldiers on Cephalonia believe the war is over; the Germans organize and bomb the Italians.
Ayers watches the LA Philharmonic's rehearsal of Beethoven's Third Symphony and plays his violin in the concert hall.
Music is like medicine for Ayers because it helps him focus and calms his temper.
Steve Lopez, who works for theLA Times, forms a friendship with Nathaniel Ayers as he writes a series of stories about the homeless musician.
Ayers still hears voices but he no longer lives on the streets and now has a relationship with his family.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects more than two million Americans each year.
As Marie stays up late, to play with the Nutcracker and her other Christmas gifts, the clock strikes and strange things occur. The Nutcracker comes to...
After a wild night of the Nutcracker battling the Mouse King (and his army), Marie wakes-up to a doctor sitting by her bedside. No one believes that s...
Szpilman's last radio concert and the end of cultural life in Warsaw before the war occur at the same time.
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