The “Impressions,” by the way, still hold their place as one of the finest compositions for piano and orchestra yet written by an American. The work is thirteen years old, but it is curiously “undated ...

Today in Music History for Oct. 27: In 1782, Niccolo Paganini, the Italian violinist whose virtuosity became a legend, was born in Genoa. He died in 1840 of cancer of the larynx. In 1917, a ...

For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, ...

Whether you’re a professional musician or you only sing show tunes in the shower, these funny music jokes will hit just the right note Who doesn’t love music? Who doesn’t love jokes? OK, so apparently ...

Vera was born in Needmore, PA on May 14, 1928, a daughter of the late Oliver E. and Louetta E. (DeShong) Mellott. She was the wife of Lester W. Hann, who she married on April 17, 1948. He preceded her ...

On this day (September 16) in 1928, Ralph Mooney was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. He fell in love with the steel guitar at a young age and went on to have a legendary career in country music. Over the ...

The 1928 hurricane, the second deadliest in U.S. history, devastated Palm Beach County, killing an estimated 3,000 people. The hurricane, a Category 4 storm, brought 150 mph winds and caused ...

The 1928 hurricane, which hit Florida 97 years ago, is considered an under-reported disaster in U.S. history. The hurricane caused Lake Okeechobee to overflow, resulting in the deaths of approximately ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Tom Lehrer, the American satirical songwriter and performer whose creative work was essentially completed by 1965 yet ...

He was often likened to such contemporaries as Allen Sherman and Stan Freberg for his comic riffs on culture and politics. By Associated Press Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who ...

Cited as one of the first representations of black queer popular culture, Ma Rainey's sensational Prove It on Me Blues is a landmark song that had a profound and lasting effect. One night in 1925, a ...