The initial three songs — which Billboard can preview exclusively — include “America” by Gloria Estefan, now available widely for the first time; “American Promise,” a newly commissioned orchestral ...
The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square is featured in "America's Soundtrack," a commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the ...
On 1931, President Hoover made it official. Now it is sung at national events, ballgames and patriotic gatherings.
When a young Knopfler started to copycat the sound he heard on Everly Brothers records, he didn't even realise which legend ...
She overcame blindness and deafness, but insisted that there was nothing miraculous about her achievements. By Special to The ...
This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...
A few months after his return to Australia from America in 1959, Alec Hope met a young folk singer called Glen Tomasetti at an arts gathering in Albury and found new energy.
For decades, he wrote a syndicated column in The Washington Post promoting nonviolence. That became the subject of a course ...
Who has the best fight song in the SEC? Who has the worst? And where does Texas Fight fit in? We rank all 16 college football fight songs in the SEC.
​​John Steinbeck is best known for his novella ‘Of Mice and Men’, and his novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. In the course of his life, he wrote 27 books, including 16 ...
Back at her 5th Avenue apartment, Jackie is going through her box of love letters (you know the kind) and burning them.
CT symphony orchestras celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with patriotic performances ...