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Yes, though the word "Christmas" is never uttered in the 1965 movie musical, we very much consider The Sound of Music as comforting a wintertime watch as the best Christmas movies, like It's a ...

What Rodgers and Hammerstein, then later filmmakers, changed about this classic. — -- “The Sound of Music” has remained one of the most iconic films in history since it was released 50 years ago.

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

"I am incredibly blessed to have been part of that," former child actor Duane Chase, who played Kurt von Trapp, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue Life imitated art on the set of The Sound of Music, ...

Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis in Minneapolis at the Taste of Minnesota (Photo credit: Nagashia Jackson for rolling out) In 1983, the late Ron Maddox created the Taste of Minnesota on the state Capitol ...

How do we like the music that we like? The answer involves more than our brain—it also involves our body. Understanding this process is a focus of Rebecca Lepping, Ph.D., a music neuroscientist at the ...