For many decades Egypt was at the heart of Arabic music, and a pioneer of Western classical music practices in the Arab world. Egypt’s Golden Age (1950s-1970s) was known for setting trends and ...

Camille Saint-Saëns wrote his Fifth Piano Concerto in Luxor to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his debut. It's been known as the "Egyptian" ever since. We'll enjoy it tonight.

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Egyptian classical pianist Mohamed Shams ...

The scope of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ISRAEL IN EGYPT is the Passover story. Handel premiered it in three sections: The Lamentation of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph, Exodus and Moses ...

An imposing basalt sarcophagus from about 600 B.C. gets pride of place in one gallery of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s illuminating new exhibition “Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World.” The ...

Moments after Sir John Eliot Gardiner - then Sir David Attenborough - had begged the crowd of sponsors to empty their pockets for the musicians, the choir of Israelites struck up their own prayers to ...

Rüya Taner, the acclaimed Turkish pianist and Steinway Artist who recently performed in Cairo, spoke to Ahram Online about her musical journey, cultural roots, and the power of music in connecting ...