Wagner’s music deeply resonated with me in a spiritual way, with its forward-looking harmonies that ushered in the radical transformation of early 20th-century music, in a abstract expressionist way.

Singer has made it his life's work to re-record the Beatles' songs in German. Sept. 3, 2011— -- The eccentric Berlin singer Klaus Beyer has made it his life's work to re-record the collected ...

They are songs. Poor Poe once said of a poem he was reviewing : “ This queer composition is entitled a song, and we should like very much to hear Mr. Channing (the author) sing it.” He might have said ...

Paris in 1825. “Play me something,” said the pale, sarcastic genius of twenty, the already famous Liszt. Von Lenz played Aufforderung zum Tanz* and then other music by Weber. The glitter of a dagger ...

A previously unknown piece of music likely composed by a teenage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recently uncovered at a library in Germany. The piece, which dates to the mid- to late-1760s, consists of ...

READING, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Kermit Ohlinger could be considered a one-man band with his accordion. He plays a midi accordion that has electronic sensors in it, enabling him to play over 300 sounds ...

Folk-rock singer Johnny Irion knows a good song when he hears it — even if it’s not in his native language. While on tour in Germany, Irion spent an evening drinking wine and talking music with his ...

One hundred years ago, on his death bed, Ludwig van Beethoven whispered: “Applaud, friends, the comedy is finished.” An immortal, it has been said, knows nothing of his immortality. One century is ...