NORTHAMPTON — You may have read the book and seen the movie — or even the Broadway play — but chances are you have never seen “The Great Gatsby” turned into a ballet with lavish sets and costumes, an ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Here in Music City, we do love a bit of music history. This piece of history is coming to us from an unexpected place, but it's very much a part of the American story.

How do you take a great American novel about wealth, class and moral corruption, and turn it into a fun-loving, feel-good ballet? That was the challenge for the artists of the World Ballet Company as ...

For Cincinnati Ballet’s dancers, this is when the tough work begins. They’ve spent countless hours in the studio learning the choreography of Septime Webre’s full-length ballet version of “The Great ...

You don't have to be a jazz expert to love this iconic tune.

This is FRESH AIR. Today, our jazz historian, Kevin Whitehead, looks back at seven jazz notables who died this year. He earlier paid tribute to band leader Jack DeJohnette and to my late husband, the ...

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937.