This article was originally published on Moment Magazine. Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried ...

Richard Strauss, of Nazi Germany, whose only rival to the title of greatest living composer is Jean Sibelius, of Nazi-dominated Finland, has dared to defy the Führer. The story came out last week in ...

Liz Slaven is still a keen musician more than 50 years after her piano lessons [BBC] When Liz Slaven was a schoolgirl, she took up piano lessons. Her tutor, Walter Hambock, was recommended to her by a ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Max Raabe of the Palast Orchester, which keeps pre-World War II German jazz alive for modern audiences. In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and ...