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.
Alexander Hamilton had words of advice in a deadlocked political battle. He's now the subject of a major musical. Watch how it all started in this vid...
The "Superb Lyrebird" is an extraordinary creature capable of astonishing feats, including hard-to-believe mimics of unexpected sounds.
This gives you various information about the native Hawaiians dance and music.
Some decisions by Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), America's seventh president, greatly disturbed Native Americans. Among the results, of those decisions, ...
It was in the spa town of Teplitz (known today as Bad Teplice in the Czech Republic) that Beethoven began composing his famous Seventh Symphony. While...
During his performing heyday, Beethoven was known as more than a brilliant pianist. His ability to improvise was legendary, and he often competed wit...
Beethoven's autopsy strongly suggest that liver failure secondary to alcoholic cirrhosis, associated with terminal spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, ...
Escaping the turmoil in his own house, Beethoven found peace at the home of friends - Eleonore and Stephan von Breuning - whose mother (Helene) unders...
This facsimile drawing of Beethoven, during his last hours, was made by Joseph Teltscher.
Just before Christmas, in 1808, Beethoven introduces his amazing new concerto. Many years later, a Beethoven-playing pianist endures a tragedy in Amer...
A graphical score animation shows how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony appears in animated fashion - with the various parts of the orchestra playing at thei...
In the early fall of 1825, Beethoven decided to move into a flat near the apartment of his friends (Stephan von Breuning and his family).
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