Music, Film & Performing Arts

The entertainment world lost a number of legendary stars and a host of other men and women involved in film, television, stage and music in 2004. Actor, governor, and 40th U.S. president Ronald Reagan died at the age of 93 ...

Published in 1945, E. B. White's classic book, Stuart Little, has sold more than 10 million copies. Because the story demanded that Stuart, the mouse, be as real as his human family, it took the imagination of many people, cutting-edge ...

Howard Shore's Academy Award-winning score for The Lord of the Rings has been hailed as some of the greatest film music ever written. Sweeping in scope, it is an interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth as music---an operatic tapestry of cultures, ...

Aaron Copland, one of the most famous American composers in history, instructs readers in the art of listening to music from the composer's point of view. What to Listen for in Music creates the foundation for an intelligent musical appreciation, ...