The embattled organization behind the Grammys has put its chief executive on leave just over a week before it puts on its awards gala known as music's biggest night. In a statement the Recording Academy said it had placed Deborah Dugan — the first woman ...
Neil Peart, Rush's star drummer, dies at 67 after battle with brain cancer
Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist of the Canadian rock group Rush, has died at 67 in California of brain cancer, the group announced Friday. "It is with broken hearts and the deepest sadness, that we must share the terrible news that on Tuesday, our ...
Artificial intelligence puts final notes on Beethoven's '10th Symphony'
A few notes scribbled in a notebook are all that German composer Ludwig van Beethoven left of his 10th Symphony before his death in 1827. Now, a team of musicologists and programmers is racing to complete a version of the piece using artificial intelligence, ahead ...
Karaoke World Championships rock 'spiritual home' of Japan for first time ever
In a figure-hugging sparkly dress, Val Monique tears around the stage, whipping up the crowd as she channels her inner Tina Turner and belts out "Proud Mary." Monique is Panama's representative in the Karaoke World Championships, one of 40 amateur warblers selected from 30,000 entrants ...
China fans desert K-pop star for 'liking' Hong Kong protest tweet
A South Korean pop star has become the latest celebrity to spark anger on the Chinese internet after he "liked" a tweet about the divisive issue of pro-democracy unrest in Hong Kong. Choi Siwon, a member of popular K-pop boy band Super Junior, was forced ...
From love songs to dance tunes to lullabies, music made in disparate cultures worldwide displays certain universal patterns, according to a study by researchers who suggest a commonality in the way human minds create music. The study, published on Thursday, focused on musical recordings and ...
Japanese pianists win top and second prizes in Paris contest
Japanese artists won the first and second prizes in the piano category of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin international classical music competition in Paris on Saturday. "Winning the competition was beyond expectations," said Kenji Miura, 26, who captured the First Grand Prix. "I'm glad that my hard work has ...
The unsung 'My Way' author: French composer Jacques Revaux has one or two regrets
He wrote the music for "My Way," one of the world's most popular songs, but Jacques Revaux would like to mention a few of his regrets. For one, "I don't even have a photo with Frank Sinatra," the French songwriter said with a laugh. The legendary ...
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In search of the next chord: Scientists reveal a secret to great songwriting
What makes some music so enjoyable, and can science help us engineer the perfect pop song? A group of researchers who statistically analyzed tens of thousands of chord progressions in classic U.S. Billboard hits say they have found the answer, and it lies in the ...
After 50 years, conductor Zubin Mehta to take final bow with Israeli orchestra
Superstar conductor Zubin Mehta, 83, takes to the Tel Aviv stage on Sunday for his final performance as music director of the Israel Philharmonic, retiring after 50 years with the orchestra. The performance of Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 and Mahler's Resurrection Symphony is to be ...
Diahann Carroll, 'Julia' star and trailblazer for black women on TV, dies
Diahann Carroll, a versatile singer and stage actress who quietly blazed a trail for black women on American television in the late 1960s by playing a widowed nurse and single mother in "Julia," died Friday at age 84, said her manager, Brian Panella. Carroll, whose ...
