An astonishing number of America's premier performers and songwriters have explored the subject. They include Leonard ...

The second entry for Hamilton in our Top 20 ... but one of the finest songs of the 21st century full stop, ‘Summertime’ is George Gershwin at his best. A gloriously fluid piece of music ...

Within four years he was good enough to get a job playing popular songs in music shops ... but no one can teach a composer the gifts with which Gershwin was blessed. Before he was 20 he had written a ...

Buddy Holly songs feature Holly harmonizing with himself on this ... "are musically as advanced as anything by the great popular composers. Gershwin or Berlin would have marveled at these compositions ...

Gershwin masterfully melded European classical music, American popular music and jazz to create ... died at the early age of 37, many of his songs and compositions remain among the most beloved ...

But in the 1890s and 1900s, the sound of the just-emerging musical style conjured something very different: dancing, drinking ...

Discussing the importance of songs in the broader conversation about meaningful art, Linda Ronstadt said 'You're No Good' ...

Brandi Carlile, Annie Lennox and Meryl Streep also joined Elton John backing up Joni Mitchell on her “I’m Still Standing” ...

Teddy Abrams will lead the Louisville Orchestra in the music of his mentor, Michael Tilson Thomas, a father figure and his teacher since he was a child. MTT's song cycle, "Meditations on Rilke," is ...

Songs by mezzo-soprano Melanie Gritters (center ... will perform Rhapsody in Blue as the finale of the program. Born in 1898, Gershwin is one of the most significant and popular American composers of ...

Two years after her surprise comeback at the Newport Folk Festival, 80-year-old Joni Mitchell played the first of two ...

On Wednesday, Oct. 30, Kristin Chenoweth posted some throwback photos from her time in Wicked in honor of the show’s 21st ...