The education Aesthetic Realism, founded by American poet and critic Eli Siegel (1902 -1978), describes what makes for beauty in music and shows how music comments centrally on what we're hoping for ...

On a Sunday afternoon in July 1946, CBS's Columbia Workshop broadcast The Pied Piper of Hamelin, featuring a story adaptation and music by Artie Shaw. The national radio show broadcast from Columbia ...

In Eastern cities and towns last week, jitterbugs by the thousand laid their dollars on the line to hear a new dance band. The band belonged to dark, dapper, moody Clarinetist Artie Shaw, who two ...

Artie Shaw (Avraham Ben-Yitzhak Arshawsky) (1910-2004), a jazz and popular music legend, was a clarinet virtuoso and one of the leading bandleaders of the 20th century. He organized and led several of ...

The Swing King was still a young man when he retired in 1954. On Thursday, legendary band leader Artie Shaw, now 93, retired two of his beloved clarinets, giving them to the Smithsonian’s National ...

The most familiar kind of tragedy in American music is that of the great artist who dies young, like Bix Beiderbecke or Charlie Parker. Then there’s the artist who does all of his major work only in ...

Artie Shaw, 94, the dynamic, cantankerous swing-era icon who abruptly quit the music business in 1954, disappointed by the industry's demand for pop tunes over the jazz innovation he championed, died ...

Oscar-nominated clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, whose recording of “Begin the Beguine” epitomized the Big Band era, died Thursday at his home in Thousand Oaks. He was 94. Shaw had long had ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) -- Artie Shaw, a clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of "Begin the Beguine" epitomized the Big Band era, died Thursday at age 94, the manager of his orchestra said.

Big Band leader and “Begin the Beguine” clarinetist Artie Shaw was eulogized by friends with tributes of admiration as well as moments of humor. Shaw’s music filled Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks ...

Bandleader and clarinetist Artie Shaw died Dec. 29 at the age of 94, apparently of natural causes. In the 1930s and '40s, Shaw's band ranked with the Goodman, Dorsey and Miller bands in popularity.