It was one of the most comfortable beginnings in all the work that I've done with composers. Smith: And this song cycle is on a CD by Nonesuch, which came out I think last year or the year before? Upshaw: It came out, yes, about a year ago. Smith:...

...painter Jack B Yeats has been immortalised in a special-edition coin.The brother of Nobel prize-winning poet William Butler Yeats features on a new €10 collector coin launched by the Central Bank yesterday.The silver coin features a portrait of the artist...

Dubliner John Gleeson is a UW-Milwaukee professor and advocate of Celtic culture. He sat down over frosty pints at County Clare to discuss Irish bards, notable McCarthys, Christmas boxes and William Butler Yeats' sexual rejuvenation. You're from...

S. Valley View Blvd. Las Vegas police officers William Butler and Steven Tafoya were looking for a suspect wanted in two recent robberies. They saw Leeroy Loveall walking near an apartment complex and believed he matched the description of the suspect. ...

And he infused the piece with a few choice Persian modes and rhythms. Danielpour has often used music as a sort of cathartic response to violence. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he composed Songs of Solitude for orchestra and baritone, which set...