Bombay's movie industry is India's dream machine. Each year it churns out hundreds of wild and gaudy spectacles
Left-handed, she taught herself to play, wrote the folk classic "Freight Train" and sang into her 90s
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Seattle's new Experience Music Project is a $100 million, technology-enhanced repository of American pop music where anyone can be a rock star
Hard work, discipline and tough love help inner-city choristers achieve lofty goals
A new show hails Edward Sorel, whose caricatures have spoofed or skewered celebrities of every stripe
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Wacky instruments often resemble bad plumbing, but all are welcome in the eclectic light orchestra of experimental music
When Polish pianist Ignace Paderewski toured America, he became a celebrity—and boosted Steinway
Museum flicks – from German silents to a comedy starring kangaroos – are not the typical fare
A great actor, a shameless ham; an athlete, a drunk; a ladies' man, one of the boys-- the madcap Jack had as many faces as roles
"Red, Hot & Blue," a new exhibition saluting the American musical, is an invigorating example of the Smithsonian's mission to illuminate our past
The musicians who make up the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra specialize in re-creating classic performances from the past
Make that an international bunch of nerds. The Berklee College of Music, aka "the MIT of pop," is respected all over the world
When three biz-school-trained entrepreneurs rescued Nashville's Gibson Guitar Corp., they created jobs and saved a musical tradition
Retired singers, musicians and conductors find a home in Milan, Italy, where a zest for music works like a fountain of youth
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