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Musicologist Fredrick Lieberman, who died on May 4, will be celebrated at the "49th day ceremony" Tibetan Buddhist Gyuto Vajrayana Center Gyuto Monastery in San José on

Pianist Vadym Kholodenko, Gold Medalist at last week's Van Cliburn Competition finals, will be among featured artists of the

Knowing that musical accompaniment for Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden was played by Stephen Horne alone, I was pu

It might have been well anticipated, but the big news is that the Cabrillo Festival of

Richard Strauss loved big orchestras.

"When pleasurable music is heard, dopamine is released in the striatum — an ancient part of the brain found in other vertebrates as well — which is known to respond to naturally rewarding stimuli like food and sex and which is artificially targeted by drugs like cocaine and amphetamine," says The New York Times article