For centuries the world of classical music has been a somewhat one-sided story, with some brilliant music written by Black composers being wrongly neglected. October is Black History Month, and this ...

Sometimes when a song is released into the world, it hits right away. In the first week, it rockets up the charts and becomes a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. But other times, that is not the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — ...

This list is updated monthly with new “Best of the Year ... century R&B with a joyous gospel piano line and sunny Motown-esque songwriting for a love song that feels fresh yet genuinely ...

If not that popular tune, there's probably another Christmas song that does, whether it's Bing Crosby's “White Christmas,” Vince Guaraldi's classic ... this jaunty piano tune (aka the Peanuts ...

Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and passionate songs took inspiration from art and literature ... The rigid forms of classical music gave way to greater expression, and ...

Mike Skinner cleverly sampled and repeated a phrase from Antonín Dvořák’s popular ... the verse of the song from the slow movement of Rachmaninov’s emotionally-charged Piano Concerto ...

Some great examples of easy piano songs for adults include popular tunes like “Let It ... also try “Fur Elise” by Beethoven, ...

Emotions can be evoked, the tone created, and the beauty of love can be remembered with romantic music. Love songs have a lot of options in R&B because of its sincere lyrics, soulful voices, and ...

He scored a minor but critical hit in 1973 with ‘Piano Man,’ which became his ... still tours regularly and released an album of classical songs since). He got tough (1980’s ‘Glass Houses ...

Formed in 1997 under the name Starfish (a thankfully short-lived moniker), they’ve sold 100 million albums, become the ...