Contrary to what many people believe, a sound designer does not simply find music for a show. They contribute in big ways making sure everyone's mics are operating properly down to the small tasks ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Back in 1974, Philly composers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff wrote “TSOP (The Sound of ...

PHILADELPHIA -- On store shelves now is a new coffee table book that tells the story of our city's mark on the music business. From musicians to artists to performances, coupled with moments in ...

Children love stories about enchanted lands full of magical beings. Nothing transports us to enchanted lands quite as powerfully as music does. Here’s a list of 10 recent children’s picture books that ...

We’re very familiar with words and music. But words about music can be just as exciting. There is never a shortage of books about music -- memoirs, biographies, large-scale histories, critical ...

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying. By Alexandra Jacobs My colleague ...

And he begins, and ends, with the variations Bach reportedly composed to send the insomniac Count Keyserling to sleep. The ace teenage harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg helped to snuff out his ...