Visual and Musical Arts bring beauty into our lives. These stories explore and reveal the inspiration behind great artworks, the challenges to create them and their impact on the world.
David Bowie died on January 10, 2016. He sang this song - "Putting Out Fire" - for the 1982 remake of "Cat People." Quentin Tarantino used it for one ...
In this interpretation of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concert No. 2, we hear strains of his work which are incorporated into a popular song called "All By My...
Just before the bombs began to fall in Warsaw, marking the beginning of Poland's long years of World War II turmoil, this part of Rachmaninoff's 2nd p...
This clip features Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.
Beginning in the fifteenth century, the Medici family, more than any other, presided over this time of cultural change known as "The Renaissance."
This cello sonata, by Schubert, is a favorite of Nathaniel Ayers.
The misery of people forced to build, and defend, Chinas Great Wall produced at least one major benefit.
Beethoven loved nature.
One of the works for cello, which Nathaniel Ayers loves to hear and play, is this piece by the Russian composerTchaikovsky, entitled Rococo Variations...
This is the theme song of The War, a Ken Burns documentary.
The poem of Robert Dwyer Joyce - The Wind that Shakes the Barley - has been set to hauntingly beautiful music.
In this clip—from a 1984 performance of Verdi’s Requiem—Herbert von Karajan conducts the Vienna Philharmonic (Wiener Philharmoniker)...