An act of destruction seeking to change our public landscape and the story we tell about ourselves has been resisted and reversed. REUTERS Sometimes Humpty Dumpty can be put back together again. Back ...
Longborough Festival Opera has appointed conductor Christopher Ward as its new Music Director from the 2027 season. London-born Ward joins Longborough Festival Opera from Theater Aachen and ...
The U.S. Agency for Global Media on Wednesday named former Newsmax executive Christopher Wallace as the deputy director for Voice of America, one day after a federal judge ordered more than 1,000 of ...
In the fall of 1968, Texas-born Jeannie C. Riley became the first woman to get a single to the top of both the Hot 100 pop chart and the Hot Country Singles chart: “Harper Valley PTA,” a sassy ...
On February 23, 1940, American folk legend Woody Guthrie wrote 'This Land is My Land' in his hotel room in New York City. The song would go on to become one of the most influential and iconic folk ...
This year’s Best Original Song nominees at the Oscars are a blues number, a K-Pop ditty, a Nick Cave ballad, an inspirational Diane Warren track … and an aria? Well, yeah. Nicholas Pike’s “Sweet ...
‘Yankee Doodle’ Was One of America’s Earliest Protest Songs. But Its Origins Are Shrouded in Mystery
A 19th-century painting of the siege of Yorktown, with the Marquis de Lafayette depicted to the right of George Washington (center, right). A popular story suggests that Lafayette ordered the ...
Bruce Springsteen isn't the only one with something to say about the state of the country these days. Bass-baritone Davóne Tines and the early music ensemble Ruckus added their voices with the ...
In his first interview as president of the Directors Guild of America, the ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Dark Knight’ helmer called a recent downturn in employment at the union “very troubling.” By Katie ...
“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Before Billboard charts, before ...
In this 250th anniversary year of the United States, pianist Lara Downes is traveling the country collecting conversations with scholars, searching for our history through songs. Her first stop is a ...
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