In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and much of Europe, including Germany. Classical composers even began to meld jazz styles into their music. (SOUNDBITE OF WOLFGANG ...
If you’re skipping Sunday night’s Academy Awards telecast and looking for some alternative entertainment, you won’t find anything more different than Meow Meow. La Jolla Music Society is presenting ...
“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...
Across the sixth floor of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, framed by its spectacular floor-to-ceiling windows, a sprawling, multidisciplinary exhibition is currently on show, devoted to works by the Neue ...
Ever since Bach, Germany has been considered (and has considered itself) the center of the musical universe. No other nation could match its composers, conductors and performers. But recently the ...