One of the bright spots in the troubled record industry has been licensing songs to videogames like "Guitar Hero" that enable users to play along with the classics. Now music-networking sites are looking to jump on the trend by letting fans contribute to rock stars' albums.
President Obama called him "The Big Cheese," while his son recalled his loving embrace
For years, doctors and patients have been using DNA analysis to diagnose anything from paternity to predisposition to inherited disease. Now, Chinese scientists say genetic testing can identify inherent "talents" as well.
When Barack Obama is sworn in as president January 20, there will be music -- by, among others, Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and the U.S. Marine Band. There will be prayers and speeches -- including Obama's inaugural address. And for the fourth time in the nation's 56 inauguration ceremonies, there will be poetry -- by someone far less well-known.
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma talks to CNN's Shanon Cook about his new album, "Songs of Joy and Peace."
When Yo-Yo Ma enters a room, everything changes.
A robot designed by Honda conducts a Detroit Symphony performance of 'Impossible Dream'.
When George Clooney was nearly kept by the assembled countries from delivering his message on Darfur Thursday, the United Nations' recently appointed messenger of peace chose a more receptive audience: the press.
George Clooney had gotten a lot of honors over career – from an Oscar to the title PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive – but now he is being honored for his humanitarian work.
This year's recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, which were handed out in a glittering ceremony last night in the nation's capitol, is quite the list of luminaries. Making up the talented quintet are: Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Academy award-winning director Martin Scorsese, singer supreme Diana Ross, actor-comedian Steve Martin and pianist-conductor Leon Fleisher, whose story of losing the use of his right hand was told in the 2007 Academy Award-nominated short subject documentary, "Two Hands."
However up and down the temperatures may be, it's springtime for violinist Joshua Bell.
As a managing director in charge of software-equity research at CIBC, Melissa Eisenstat worked 70-hour weeks, spent 70 percent of her time on the road, and, she recalls, "when Bill Gates sneezed, I...
Violinist Joshua Bell proves that art, like science, loves an "elegant" formula when Sony Classical releases his new Grammy-worthy CD on September 5: "Voice of the Violin."
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In the skid row district of Los Angeles, what passes for art is mostly graffiti on the front of boarded-up warehouses and stores. Yet this rundown precinct is the home--in a white building, behind ...
Built in 1893 by financier H.H. Cook as a wedding gift for his daughter, Wheatleigh is a Florentine-style palazzo in the heart of the Berkshires. It was purchased 20 years back by Lin and Susan Sim...
Fortune: Playlistupdated: Mon Jan 08 2001 00:01:00
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AN HOUR: From salaryman to soba slurper, everyone reads manga. And department store Mandarake (31-2 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku; 81-3-3477-0777) is the place to find these thick comic books, with selec...
With nearly twice as many mutual funds as there are stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, you'd think there'd be a fund to satisfy every need. Not always. Sometimes close cousins of mutual funds -...
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