Taken from the fourth Police album, Ghost in the Machine, Sting's fretwork is filled with chord inversions, syncopations, and dynamics – all the right stuff for a dynamite bassline ...

Kismet (book by Charles Lederer & Luther Davis; music by Alexander Borodin; musical adaptation and lyrics by Robert Wright & George Forrest) seems to have mistaken itself at times for a supercolossal ...

Can-Can (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Abe Burrows) is a period musical in the good but also the bad sense of the word. It often captures the rakish, even the Lautrec-ish animation of Paris ...

“Can-Can,” Cole Porter and Abe Burrows’ 1953 musical set in decadent, turn-of-the-century Paris, has a certain je ne sais quoi. As the new Pasadena Playhouse production reveals, it also has a dazzling ...

Hank Williams was born Hiram King Williams in Mount Olive, Alabama, to a family of strawberry farmers and log company workers, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame. In addition to growing up in ...

Scott Siegel, founder and host of "Broadway by the Year," now in its third concert season at Town Hall, noted that 1953 was the year Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated president, Stalin died and ...

1953 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards Best Musical Leonard Bernstein 1953 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards Best Musical Betty Comden 1953 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards Best Musical ...

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart occupies nearly 500 long-playing records. Early in February, Cornelius Burke began listening to all of these. At the time of this writing, he had not yet ...