It’s not actually all Classical (big ‘C’) at all – so why has the name ‘classical music’ stuck as an umbrella term for Western instrumental, orchestral and choral music?
How is Malthus's ideas on future population growth still relevant today and how they are not relevant today? Why is globalization important for anthropology? Discuss how migration contributed to the rise and expansion of the Roman Empire and to the fall of the ...
couldn't do it without being kind of stuck and pigeonholed. I had to figure out a nice balance between what's being offered today and where I wanted to take it. And so now that I've caught people's attention, I can settle in to be l...
"It's not an overstatement to say thatBerlinwill be theSgt. Pepperof the seventies," blustered Larry "Ratso" Sloman inRolling Stone. Which is laughable today — but it helps frameBerlinin its time and context. "When people thought of a concept album, they thoughtSgt. Pepper," singer/son...
Narration:It’s this exact quality, the power to trigger our emotions in a deeply personal way, that may hold the key to using music as medicine. I’m Manjula Selvarajah, and this isSolve for X: Innovations to Change the World. Today, we’ll explore how and why music ...
This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be all right, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to hav...
I’m not meaning to wade into any of that today. I want instead to just explore this more basic question, how does someone go from being an evangelical Protestant to being an atheist, to being a Catholic? And why? Because this is maybe the most prominent person in terms of political li...
“Today, when the word is in danger at the hands of the demagogue, the traducer of the reality of loneliness and pain, when the dignity of individual is at stake and the freedom of speech much at the risk of becoming an obsolete concept, we need the poetry of Faiz more than ever ...
Arkema has been a sponsor of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris) since the 2017/2018 season, and is now supporting the program to bring opera to young people by giving 10,000 students from deprived neighborhoods the opportunity to learn ab...
Still, Rogers is aware that the music that makes her heart leap may leave another listener cold — which is the whole point of her upcoming book,This Is What It Sounds Like. (She's still administering the finishing touches; a release date remains TBA.) ...