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Music

Opera allows him all, 'Doubt' playwright says

Opera allows him all, 'Doubt' playwright says

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley joins members of the Minnesota Opera to work on a new adaptation of his play "Doubt, which began as a play on Broadway and then a movie.
by Euan Kerr

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The benevolent Beastie: Adam Yauch remembered

The benevolent Beastie: Adam Yauch remembered

Adam Yauch: the gravelly-voiced rapper who helped make the Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop, and whose good-hearted nature led him to humanistic causes.

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Dylan Hicks' debut novel "Boarded Windows" reviewed

We can never fully understand the hold some people have on us -- the way some figures loom large in memory and some take on a certain magnetism in the present. Dylan Hicks' debut novel, Boarded Windows, is a tango of sorts, both intellectual and emotional, between a nameless narrator and his shadowy father-figure.

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Mother and son get to the heart of music

Mother and son get to the heart of music

Throughout French horn virtuoso Bernhard Scully's career, his mother, Bloomington pianist Joanne Minnetti, has been in his shadow — as his accompanist. Now the pair are sharing equal billing on their first full-length album.
by Chris Roberts

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U of M study: Can rock music make you racist?

A University of Minnesota study finds that when people listen to music that is culturally relevant to them, it conjures warm feelings about their own racial or ethnic group.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Whitney Houston remembered at NJ hometown funeral

Whitney Houston remembered at NJ hometown funeral

Clapping hands and swaying to gospel hymns in the church where Whitney Houston's powerful voice once wowed her congregation, the biggest names in entertainment sang along with the choir to remember the pop superstar at her hometown funeral Saturday.

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