A gifted musician, he also played saxophone, oboe, flute, and piccolo. He studied psychology at North Texas State University and later earned an MBA from SMU.

The Grant Park Music Festival is one of the nation’s few free outdoor classical music series. It was created in 1935, when Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak and James C. Petrillo, ...

The Conductor Laureate brings a balletic sense to a programme of Weinberg, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky that nodded to ...

Once home to poet Lucio Piccolo, this villa in Capo d’Orlando welcomed Nobel laureate Tomasi di Lampedusa and remains a symbol of Sicily’s literary heritage ...