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.
Beethoven loved nature.
One of the works for cello, which Nathaniel Ayers loves to hear and play, is this piece by the Russian composerTchaikovsky, entitled Rococo Variations...
When Steve Lopez met Nathaniel Ayers, he often found the musician playing in LA's 2nd Street tunnel, at Hill.
Nathaniel Ayers - called "the soloist" in this film - was once an extremely talented student of music.
This is the theme song of The War, a Ken Burns documentary.
The poem of Robert Dwyer Joyce - The Wind that Shakes the Barley - has been set to hauntingly beautiful music.
In this clip—from a 1984 performance of Verdi’s Requiem—Herbert von Karajan conducts the Vienna Philharmonic (Wiener Philharmoniker)...
Emotionally upset, and in the throes of depression, Verdi makes a decision. It is 1840, and he's had it with composing music. Then ... an unexpected e...
One of Princess Diana's favorite songs was beautifully performed at her funeral by Lynne Dawson.
Zucchero, a popular Italian singer, has brought a classical aria into pop culture.
Mahalia Jackson sings "We Shall Overcome" during her European Tour of 1971.
The Toronto Music Garden is inspired by J.S. Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello. In this video clip, Yo-Yo Ma—who was involved in...
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