Forget the charts and the tours; for these radical collectives, being in a band was a twenty-four-hour-a-day social ...

There’s something unforgettable about medieval monasteries: they weren’t just places of worship—they were fortresses of faith ...

The Czech Republic is often associated with Prague’s medieval skyline, but the country’s cultural and historical footprint extends far beyond its capital. One of the clearest ways to see that ...

Early music — the kind defined as being from the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque time periods — reminded Pamela Narbona Jerez of home. As a girl growing up in Santiago, Chile, she sang in the choir ...

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Chicago might have already hit its first deep freeze, but the local classical music scene pulses with life this season. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, the Chicago Symphony’s artist-in-residence, ...

Galileo Education already serves students through its existing schools in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida Mark Claypool serves as CEO of Galileo Education Galileo Education, which is backed by ...

American pianist and composer Chloe Flower is on a mission to get young people into classical music. She’s doing it by collaborating with rap, house and pop stars, and creating her own genre of music, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to recordings by Maria Dueñas and Daniil Trifonov, works by Thomas Adès and Tania León, and more. London Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Adès, ...

Beneath the ruins of Old Dongola in Sudan, archaeologists uncovered the remains of what may be the largest cathedral ever found in Nubia. Once the capital of the Christian Kingdom of Makuria, Old ...

Danish archaeologists recently unearthed dozens of medieval graves, shedding light on how disease and hardship shaped life in early Christian Denmark. Officials from the Moesgaard Museum in Beder, ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 7,093,3841-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Prester John What it’s about: A legendary medieval king, who ruled over an opulent land ...