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 ...
Blind auditions do help women succeed
Don't lump useful social science experiments together with pop psychology.
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 ...
The Beatles album "Abbey Road" is back at No. 1 in Britain half a century after its first release, with the band breaking their own record for the longest gap between stints at the top of the charts. The band's final studio album, with its ...
Japan's Nodoka Okisawa wins prestigious competition for young conductors in France
A 32-year-old Japanese woman won the top prize at a prestigious international competition for young conductors held Saturday in Besancon, eastern France. Nodoka Okisawa became the 10th Japanese to win the prize, following in the footsteps of the renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa, who was the ...
Vinyl, books and magazines will never go away
Supposedly outdated content formats like LPs and print allow consumers — and marketers — to go beyond the masses.
'Stand up to Beijing,' Hong Kong singer Denise Ho tells U.S. lawmakers and companies
Hong Kong singer and activist Denise Ho wants U.S. lawmakers and companies to criticize Beijing's actions in Hong Kong to help change the Chinese Communist Party's behavior. Ho said Monday that Beijing was using its power and influence to quash dissent around the world, and ...
Ric Ocasek, the frontman of synth-heavy new wave innovators The Cars, was found dead Sunday in New York, police said. He was 75 years old. The New York Police Department said they had received a call at approximately 4 p.m. about an unconscious male at ...
