Some claim music is rooted in our souls. Yet, if you've ever suffered through a tone-deaf friend singing along with the radio to one of your favorite tunes, you know that's not always true. When it ...

The song around us is one of bitter division. We are called to sing a song of God’s healing love.

When I was a child of 5 or 6, I loved my little record player, but other than children’s storytelling albums, I owned only two albums, both gospel."Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash from The Holy Land.

For the opening of a huge new life-sciences building on its campus, Syracuse University wanted to capture the sense of expansiveness shared by architecture and science. It commissioned the composer ...

Back in his younger days, Daisuke Inoue (who's now 78), was a musician who couldn't read music. So, he came up with a truly inventive solution – which is to say Daisuke Inoue invented the karaoke ...

Recently I came across a vintage photograph that reminded me of the Smithsonian's long association with music--an interest that goes back to the mid-19th century when the Institution started ...