This fall, the hills of Southern California will come alive with The Sound of Music! Musical Theatre West will bring this breathtaking story to its stage with its production of The Sound of Music. The ...

This story is adapted from Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction, by David George Haskell. I first held a violin in my late forties.

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...