Australian songwriter Paul Kelly breathes new life into the words of William Shakespeare on his latest project, Seven Sonnets & A Song. The release finds the prolific artist transforming sonnets ...

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and an Irish song tradition inspired Paul McCartney on The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There.” Paul used many of his literary and musical favorites in his songs. In The Lyrics ...

Sonnets are a form of poem that was much loved by William Shakespeare. This one might be his most famous: Sonnet 18. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?' asks Shakespeare. A sonnet is usually ...

Hello, and greetings from Hong Kong. You asked about a piece of “music that transforms, or emulates, or sheds new light on a different work of art.” One such is David Gilmour (vocalist and guitarist ...

In the spring of 2016, Toronto guitarist Trevor Giancola assembled his dream band: a quartet featuring Seamus Blake, Rick Rosato, and Adam Arruda, three ex-pat Canadians making waves on the ...

All of Shakespeare's sonnets were read aloud in different languages at the Globe theatre in London on Sunday The Globe held a multilingual sonnet reading yesterday to mark Shakespeare's birthday: Skal ...