And everyone will be able to enjoy the music of the 8th George Mason University Regimental Band, which will perform popular Civil War-era songs on 19th-century brass instruments. Area residents ...

A centuries-old invention is still protecting military secrets. Discover how punched paper tape remains a trusted tool in ...

July marks the 30th anniversary of Northern Lights, the first in Sir Phililp Pullman’s His Dark Materials novels. Ash ...

ERIC: Danish composer Carl Nielsen wrote his "Helios Overture” in 1902, while accompanying his wife, sculptor Anne Marie Broderson, to Greece, after she had received a rarely-granted authorization to ...

The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared for her salty bravado, dishes on Hal Prince, her non-friendship with ...

The banjo as we know it emerged on the American mainland in the mid-19th century, around the time that Virginia-born Joel Walker “Joe” Sweeney was popularizing the instrument in blackface ...

During World War II, when Waterbury factories churned out more than 2 billion pounds of brass rods, sheets ... Although the thread became widely adopted by the end of the 19th century, the British ...

A new bell cast in the Netherlands from weapons including a Russian S-300 missile has arrived at Prague’s Church of the Holy Saviour.

The Larz Anderson Auto Museum beckons car enthusiasts and history buffs alike to its hilltop perch, where gleaming chrome and polished wood tell the story of America’s enduring love affair with the ...

Perched at the tip of Cape Ann like a jewel on Massachusetts’ crown, Rockport transformed from humble beginnings as a granite and timber settlement into one of America’s most beloved art colonies. The ...

The Lublin Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments has announced a remarkable discovery, i.e., a mysterious and elite brass eagle badge dating back to a pivotal period in Poland’s fight for freedom.

Garforth Brass mentors and progresses people who play brass instruments- including trumpets, trombones and tubas - and offers seats in both contesting and non-contesting settings, depending on ...