The Mount Prospect Park District presents the Summer Festival of Music, the free concert series by the Mount Prospect Community Band, a program of the park district in its 49th year. All concerts ...

Whether an old folk ballad or a futuristic techno hit, music is the lifeblood of Europe’s great cities and one of the most ...

This isn’t just a tribute to a beloved classical piece; it’s a corrective mission and a symbol of Europe’s artistic and ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with John Seabrook about his book The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, which ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) beamed Strauss’s The Blue Danube into deep space as a musical message to aliens.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has sent a famous piece of classical music deep into space "for aliens" in a symbolic gesture to mark its 50th anniversary. Johann Strauss II’s The Blue Danube waltz, ...

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was ...

In 1865, Johann Herbeck, choirmaster of the Vienna Men’s Choral ... so blue, so blue"). Hear It On J Strauss II: The Blue Danube Among many fine accounts (including Reiner, Boskovsky and Kleiber), ...

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz has finally made it into space, nearly a half-century after missing a ride on NASA's Voyagers ...

Vienna (AFP) – Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was used in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi classic "2001 ...

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was used in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi film classic "2001: A Space Odyssey".