A two-alarm fire that damaged the famed Philadelphia International Records building where the "Sound of Philadelphia" was born has been ruled an arson ...
The many candidates have been heard, their qualities weighed and debated. Yet the Philadelphia Orchestra today isn't much closer to naming a music director than it was in 2006 when it confirmed that it would part with German conductor Christoph Eschenbach ...
TED KENNEDY sat in box No. 1 at the Academy of Music, flashing that legendary ear-to-ear Kennedyesque grin, as he watched one of Philadelphia's big political moments ...
Was it music? Was it intentional? Accidental?Those were the questions from passengers lined up for Track 7 at lunchtime yesterday at 30th Street Station when New York City's Asphalt Orchestra launched a guerrilla-style debut in Philadelphia ...
Fourth of July festivities got started early Saturday with a paradethrough old city, just steps away from where the declaration ofindependence was signed. The party continued on the Benjamin FranklinParkway where thousands of people turned out to take in food, games andmusic, celebrating America's 233rd birthday in America's birthplace ...
Now here's a graduation story for the ages. This week, Jordan Thomas will trade his ID card at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts for a sweatshirt from the renowned Peabody Institute ...
When Condoleezza Rice was 3, she could read music before she could read words."It was always clear in my mind that I was going to be a great concert musician," the former secretary of state told students yesterday at Bodine High School for International Affairs in North Philadelphia. "I studied and worked hard at piano." ...
For buskers in Philadelphia train stations, yesterday was the day the music died.Or at least the day the music was marched off to "designated performance areas." ...
Alton "Ace Capone" Coles, the rap music impresario who used his hip-hop Philadelphia record label as a front for a multimillion-dollar cocaine distribution network, was sentenced yesterday to life plus 55 years in federal prison ...