The year is 1925. The Great Gatsby is published, the jazz age is swinging, and on October 28th, a new concert hall opens at an unlikely spot — the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. If only its ...

The idea for a concert hall at the Library of Congress did not stem from congress. It came from philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge — and one bespoke piece of bipartisan legislation. "She was ...

For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, innovative music and American ingenuity. (And free concerts.) The idea for a ...

The annual Chopin and His Europe Festival is set to open in Warsaw on Wednesday with a violin recital featuring music by Bach and Telemann, performed by Italian virtuoso Fabio Biondi. In keeping with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a large, airy studio inside English National Ballet’s headquarters, a white Rubik’s Cube of a building on ...

A chamber orchestra concert, an Early Music Festival concert and stage performances highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula. • Violinist Erin Hennessey will be the guest soloist for ...

In Boston, Mrs. Alvan Tufts Fuller, wife of Governor Fuller, presented Serge Koussevitzky with the first Boston Symphony Orchestra records made under his leadership for the Victor Talking Machine Co.