entertainment - "music"

Avant-garde musician and performance artist Meredith Monk enthralled Syrian students on Monday with a lesson on vocal and choreographic techniques in a rare cultural exchange between the two countries.

A few years ago the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle had a thriving music and theatre scene. But a spurt of redevelopment and rising rents have squeezed out much of the art. Anything to be done?...

Throughout history, the papacy has been a powerful patron of music, from Gregorian chant to modern Masses. Historian Robert Greenberg notes that much of the finest music has come from composers associated with the Sistine Chapel.

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is riding high on popularity and it's hoped this will rub off in the music industry.

CHILDREN'S advocacy groups have demanded tighter restrictions on sexual text and images used on billboards, in children's television viewing times and over the programming of suggestive music clips, in submissions to a government inquiry.

Since its opening on the British stage in 1973, Rocky Horror Show has inspirited audiences and become one of the must-see musicals of modern history.

Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrates the music and spirit of Brazil with the popular Brazilian music icon, singer-songwriter, composer and pianist Ivan Lins and Trio da Paz, joined by vocal jazz quartet new york Voices, bring the essence of romance to Rose Theater on May 23-24, 2008, 8:00pm. The Rose Theater is located at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, on Broadway at 60th St., New York City.. Ivan Lins' 35-year career has garnered him a 2000 Latin GRAMMY nominee and a 2001 GRAMMY award for Latin Pop Vocal. He is a prolific composer and mesmerizing performer. Lins' songs have been recorded by Quincy Jones, George Benson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Barbara Streisand.Li...

Film Festivals: Mexico's 'Hugo' wins film festival -- The 10th Buenos Aires Intl. Festival of Independent Film wrapped April 20 with the crowning of Mexico's 'Intimidades de Shakespeare y Victor Hugo' for best film and the screening of French helmer Christophe Honore's musical 'Love Songs.'

New york (AP) -- Only a few thousand families in Tennessee were able to see the Gospel music Channel light when it began less than four years ago....

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra manager Trygve Nordwall said was forced to cut composer Dror Feiler's "State of Siege" from his program after the orchestra's......