How could we do Deep Dives without revisiting our old friend Claudio Monteverdi? We have explored the composer's music through his inimitable 1610 Vespers; through is fabulous motets for ...

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

In the small hall of the Rustaveli Theater, the air was heavy not with theatrical drama, but with something subtler, ...

Leonardo da Vinci travelled by horseback from Italy to France with the Mona Lisa carefully rolled up in his saddlebag.

Italian Renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi’s celebrated madrigal “Ecco mormorar l’onde” captures the serenity of dawn by the sea, the gentle motion of waves and the singing of birds.

both the sacred music he wrote to be performed in synagogues and the secular music he composed for the court, where he shared renown with his contemporary Claudio Monteverdi. In addition, the program ...

Being a percussionist and timpanist, it feels like a natural path. 3. Dinner with an Historical Figure If I could have dinner with anyone, it would be Claudio Monteverdi. He revolutionized music in ...

Theater composer and lyricist William Finn, best known for his work on the Tony Award-winning musical "Falsettos," has died. He was 73. The acclaimed playwright died Monday following a battle with ...