BRAINERD — The theme of the 2023 Lakes Area Music Festival season is “Bel canto”, Italian for “beautiful singing”. This theme will be apparent throughout all performances, with lots of vocal ...

Ann Packer: Songs without Words — Ann Packer's debut novel, "The Dive from Clausen's Pier" was a nationwide bestseller. We talk to the Bay Area-based writer about her new book, "Songs without Words." ...

In response to Eddie Dean’s review of Ben Yagoda’s “The B-Side” (“After the Hit Parade Had Gone,” Books, Jan. 31), the 1950s and early ’60s may have been a graveyard for composers of “sophisticated ...

“Song Without Words (Pleading)”, by Florence Price, is the sixth in a set of “Seven Miniatures” for piano. Reminiscent of Mendelssohn’s own "Songs without Words," this piece opens with a few measures ...