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In my case, it was a pair of silver stilettos, carefully preserved by my grandmother since the 1950s. Most of us have fallen for impractical footwear at one point or another, that leather-scented, slippery-soled promise of a more glamorous life....

On Nov. 24, 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. On this date: In 1784, Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, was...

Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov (b1937) has described music as "the world singing of itself". Appropriately, these a cappella sacred songs recorded in the Cathedral of the Dormition, Kiev, have a self-contained beauty, politically out of fashion in the Soviet era...

Liberty Hall is pulsing, and you can hear it from the street. The storefronts across Massachusetts St. echo a two-step thump that feels as foreign to our mid-American town as saltwater...The air inside is thick and tough to swallow, heavy...

Laughter Through Tears' Extending the Reach of a Great Yiddish Writer, Unto the Next Generation Published: November 18, 2009 The most moving part of “Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears,” Theodore Bikel ’s one-man play with songs at the Baruch Performing...

Yet several years ago Mr. Andsnes approached Jane Moss, the vice president for programming at Lincoln Center , to propose collaborating with a visual artist on a performance of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Ms. Moss embraced the idea as...

Colorado Springs symphony audiences have a reputation for being conservative, happy to attend yet another performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony but wary of the unfamiliar...The program began with Stravinsky’s “Infernal Dance” from “The Firebird” and Schiff’s delightfully...