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In case you missed our story last week about The Barn, a Wilmington jazz club and dance hall that hosted famous acts in the 1940s and '50s, be sure to check it out this week. Also, if you listen to ...

Saturday nights host David Garland presents new and old film scores, emphasizing the delights and uniqueness of movie music, and sharing his encyclopedic knowledge of the field.

His niche in the gallery of conductor specialists has been built on reviving great scores from the golden age of film and stage musicals in the 20th century, and a recognition that they demand a sound ...

Nevertheless just before the Frenchman composed visions for himself and three fellow musicians in a German prisoner-of-war camp camp and the Russian did what he could to mark the horrors of the ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...