Cantare, fare musica

There is something beautiful in music, according to some scientists, ‘listening to music has some amazing benefits regardless of your age, health, physical or emotional state.’ Satan understands the …

‘This band has no past’ was the first line of the farcical biography printed on the inner sleeve of Cheap Trick’s first album, but the band, of course, did have a past—a past that straddles two very …

There is neither in the music history nor in the history of art such a closed and contradictory composer and creator as Galina Ustvolskaya. The music of Galina Ustvolskaya (excepting commissioned wor …

Well before she married Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann was already an internationally renowned pianist, and she concertized extensively for several decades after her husband’s death. Despite being t …

Marilyn Manson in his own words. Like a computer game come to life, he’s playing a role and inviting us to join him in a fantasy world. He likes to shock, to test the limits, and has been adopted as …

A pathbreaking study of the Parisian press’s attempts to claim Richard Wagner’s place in French history and imagination during the unstable and conflict-ridden years of the Third Reich. Richard Wagne …

Driven to the brink of madness by cocaine, overwork, marital strife, and a paranoid obsession with the occult, David Bowie fled Los Angeles in 1975 and ended up in Berlin, the divided city on the fro …

Like a long, funny letter from an old friend, an album of drawings by the legendary singer and activist for social justice, Joan Baez. Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her form …

Manchester’s Stone Roses woke up a stagnant late-Eighties music scene with an eponymous debut album of danceable rock that set the charts ablaze and remains a fixture in critics’ lists today. The UK …

The unexpected death of George Michael on Christmas Day, 2016 brought to a close the life of one of the UK’s most loved pop icons. Careless Whispers is the gripping story of this musical legend – A r …