The Four Seasons is the kind of music that would sound right at home in a hotel by the same name. It’s pleasant, sophisticated, and guaranteed…

Some works of art are meant to deceive. Or at least, to evoke something else. Photorealism is like that, where a painting (like the one above)…

Imagine taking a stroll through the streets of 18th-century Madrid, hearing church bells, military regiments, panhandlers, Rosary processions, and other relics of city life during the…

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. In a classical song, when a voice is accompanied by a piano, there can be a tendency for the vocal…

Great things can happen when leading figures collaborate. Take, for example, the 1992 U.S. Men’s Olympic Basketball Team, built with top players from different NBA teams…

Like Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” or Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” Franz Schubert’s “Erlkönig” feels more like an epic film than merely a song. Composed in 1815…

In the 2002 film The Pianist, actor Adrien Brody portrays Władysław Szpilman, a Polish pianist of Jewish descent. Szpilman was a well-known performer working for…

We’ve all heard the Lullaby, probably since we were babies, but did you know it was written after a fling between German composer Johannes Brahms and…