Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprised: to come ...

In April 1940, as German forces launched Operation Weserübung, the invasion of Norway, the light cruiser Königsberg took part ...

1950 – Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the ...

Composer Simon Franglen talks about composing over three hours of music and creating his own instruments to create the ...

The project by the Chinese firm Chuxin Tuoyuan, led by Meng Zhao, proposes a new arts and music center beside Alvar Aalto’s ...