After directing Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean followed his masterpiece with another grand epic, an adaptation of Doctor ...

This December marks Daphne Oram’s centenary. She was a visionary and a key influence in the history of electronic music.

How do we like the music that we like? The answer involves more than our brain—it also involves our body. Understanding this process is a focus of Rebecca Lepping, Ph.D., a music neuroscientist at the ...

Young and beautiful Lara is loved by three men: a revolutionary, a mogul, and a doctor. Their lives become intertwined with the drama of Russian revolution. Doctor Zhivago is still married when he ...

Sixteen hundred years ago, St. Augustine was credited with saying, “He who sings, prays twice.” Today, scientific research shows that he who sings, performs, or listens to music also enriches and ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “In the Waiting Room,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and her own poem “Love Poem Like We Used to Write It.” This Week in Fiction Andrew Martin on the ...

“The riddle of life, the riddle of death, the enchantment of genius, of unadorned beauty-these things were ours,” wept the beautiful Lara over the body of her lover, Dr. Zhivago. “But the small ...

Lara is named after the heroine of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, Lara Antipova. Her parents divorced when she was 11. Her father, Kevin, works in the medical field, while her mother, Monica, is a ...

A rumor circulated online in October 2025 that U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Universal Music Group to sign his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to a "multi-album record ...

Dr. Dog have been announced as the surprise headliner for this year’s Philly Music Fest. Returning from Oct. 13-19, the ninth annual Philly Music Fest will welcome a total of 22 bands based in the ...

For as long as we’ve been making music, we’ve been using it as a way to communicate with others. Before the advent of recording, we performed our music face-to-face. Soon, physical music on vinyl, ...