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Born in 1945, in Dublin, to a pre-eminent family of the Anglo-Irish gentry, Richard Alexander Charles Cobbe is one the ...

For its season at New York City Center, its first major engagement here in years, the company disappoints with mediocre ...

Dutch National Ballet returning to New York after more than 40 years should have been thrilling. The opening program, whilst ...

A pair of brand-new records from Katherine Whalen’s Jazz Squad and Certain Seas showcase the Efland musician stretching her ...

The renowned company, Dutch National Ballet (DNB) is performing at New York City Center through Saturday, November 22nd.

Despite his macho image, Vladimir Putin won’t be rocking out to electric guitar riffs anytime soon, as his press secretary ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 5: In 1828, a Harmonic Society was formed in Lunenburg, N.S., by 24 men who met every week to sing church music. The society was one of the earliest musical ...

For some players, guitar picks are extensions of their bodies; they can’t be too far from one at any given time. Percussive ...

Among record collectors there are desert-island discs –the handful of discs you’d take to said isolated island. Now, Mikhail ...

Long before rock, country or blues shaped American music, one Pennsylvania company was already building its foundation.

The collaboration was a first in the Beatles’ history, but those involved in its recording all share the same strange ...