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We can give at least partial credit to the university’s founder, Karl G. Maeser.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — After six decades of devotion to the organ, Maestro Leo Krämer treats the instrument like an extension of himself. He doesn’t even need to lay hands on it to hear in his mind how a ...
Midway through its near non-stop, culture-packed calendar running from August 30th to September 24th, the Berlin Musikfest last weekend brought two French ...
Before he became a country music icon in his own right, Johnny Cash played rhythm guitar in a rowdy German bar band.
In the new concert film Tripping with Nils Frahm, directed by Benoit Toulemonde, a small figure in a t-shirt and flat cap bounces around a Berlin stage — playing pianos and towering analog ...
In 1959, when Amelia Hielscher Mettke joined Austin’s new Damenchor, or women’s choir, during its inaugural year at Saengerrunde Hall, she was 17. She’s been a singing member ever since. Back then, ...
Keith Brintzenhoff will be the speaker Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Tulpehocken Settlement Historical Society membership meeting. His talk will feature Dr. Witselsucht, a Pennsylvania German comedian in ...
In 1982, a teenaged-Organized Noize member Patrick “Sleepy” Brown heard Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force’s “Planet Rock” for the first time. He was hooked by the song’s combination of rap ...
There was a soft humid breeze, neon lights blazed in every color of rainbow sherbet, and shiny industrial skyscrapers framed the second evening celebrating German music at SXSW 2024. This night was ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — After six decades of devotion to the organ, Maestro Leo Krämer treats the instrument like an extension of himself. He doesn't even need to lay hands on it to hear in his mind how a ...