Today in Music History for Dec. 16: In 1786, German chorister Konrad Kocher was born. He was the composer of the tune "For the Beauty of the Earth" and helped popularize four-part singing in churches.

The tune crooned by Bing Crosby is still one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. It's endured as a favorite — ...

The resulting album, Squeeze, sounds less like The Velvet Underground and more like a rushed, third-rate pub-rock project. It was a commercial and critical failure that completely muddied the ...

A community orchestra in Fife, which has been making music for 150 years, is celebrating being the only group in Scotland ...

Music lovers are invited to take a fascinating journey into the life and legacy of one of history’s greatest composers during ...

No historical evidence exists to tell us who sang the first song, or made the first rhythmic sounds that resembled music.

Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar revives the iconic qawwali ‘Na To Karvaan Ki Talash Hai’, composed by Hrithik Roshan’s grandfather Roshan Lal Nagrath with lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi. The song is not mere ...

Throughout his life, Ennio Morricone felt shunned by the classical music world. But these days his pop-culture cachet isn’t ...

From Badfinger to XTC, these bands had enough magic to conquer the world - but there was always a chink in their armour ...

At the opera, my highlights of 2025 included Washington National Opera’s winning “ Porgy and Bess ,” a revival of artistic ...

The York Symphony Orchestra has announced that Amy Amato has been chosen as the organization's Development Director, ...

Supplementing commercial and public radio, community radio stations typically operated with a volunteer or low-wage staff and ...