Today is the 337th birthday of composer and organist Jeremiah Clarke. You have heard his most famous work dozens of times in your life and never really thought about it. Clarke composed the “Prince of ...

Surviving pictures of the English composer and organist John Stanley show clearly the effects of a childhood domestic accident that saw him blinded at the age of two. It is clearly something that ...

G. B. STERN has a very nice ear for words — something close to absolute pitch. So a reviewer must be very careful about the adjectives he applies to this third of her volumes of personal facts and ...