Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

This first full biography of Edward J. Dent (1876-1957), Cambridge Professor of Music and foremost musicologist, tells the story of a remarkable ma...

New Zealand-born conductor, Warwick Braithwaite, was a seminal figure in the musical life of Britain for more than fifty years. He studied at the R...

A vocal coach who has been in the vanguard of classical music in Canada for more than six decades. Stuart Hamilton is a well-known Canadian musicia...

In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century swaggering carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries naive mill...

This year marks the anniversary not only of what would have been John Lennon''s 80th birthday but also the 40th anniversary of his death in New Yor...

Riverdance exploded across the stage at Dublins Point Theatre one spring evening in 1994 during a seven-minute interval of the Eurovision Song Cont...

Unique among the various types of impersonation entertainers, a tribute artist concentrates on only a few of a famous singer's notable character...

The piano music of Maurice Ravel is among the most thrilling the most colorful and for pianists the most challenging of the repertoire. This bo...

ESG were one of the first bands to sign to British indie label Factory Records, working with famed producer Martin Hannett on their early EPs. The ...

In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing...

The iconic Black rock band Living Colour's Time's Up, released in 1990, was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial su...

Today, Metallica are known as consummate musicians, but it wasn t always that way. Their early career is marked by a gradual evolution from garage ...

The musical child of Russias golden age, Sergei Rachmaninoff, was the last of the great Romantics. Scorned by the musical establishment until very ...

The unlikely, rocky relationship between an American country superstar and his straightlaced Canadian manager.Before there was Johnny and June, the...

A is for Acting - Miley first shot to fame playing Hannah Montana, the schoolgirl with a secret double life as a pop star. B is for Bolt - Miley p...