The discovery of a love letter revealed the depths of Beethoven’s yearning for his "immortal beloved." Scholars have been piecing together clues to her identity ever since. Ludwig van Beethoven wasn’t ...

This is the last day I’ll be filling in for Emily, and it’s been so much fun! Today we’ll hear how Beethoven was an early adopter of technology, as he put the new fangled metronome in his Symphony No.

Your average cult band might make a handful of great, overlooked albums, split up in frustration, and eventually reunite to play for big festival crowds after the world belatedly begins to appreciate ...

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: Photo of SPARKS and Russell MAEL and Ron MAEL; Posed group portrait of Russell (L) and Ron Mael (Photo by Gems/Redferns) Your average cult band might make a handful of great, ...

Almost two centuries after Beethoven's death, scientists say they've finally cracked the case of what the famously cranky composer really looked like. Credit: Cicero Moraes/Pen News Turns out ...

Videotapes and the VCRs they're played on first appeared in the United States in 1977, the same year "Star Wars" was released. However, the technology had been available in Japan since 1971 when the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook By 2002, sixth-generation consoles were hitting their stride. Between the PlayStation 2, GameCube, ...

Good news, everyone: My bar mitzvah videos from the mid-1990s are now digitized for the ages. While I have no intention of actually watching them — oy, the embarrassment — I recently received the ...

When it comes to revisiting older works, musicians have a "golden opportunity," says Jon Batiste. "You can connect dots that were never connected before." That's what Batiste is doing in his new album ...

'Batiste takes a phrase of Beethoven, and answers and contrasts it with a minor, bluesy jazz phrase of his own' Into this fray steps an American musical celebrity, New Orleans-born Jon Batiste, 38 ...

The Grammy-winning musician discusses his new genre-scrambling album, and his optimism in the face of President Trump's return: "Whatever is the darkest ... force against your wellbeing is also the ...