Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. How does a person become famous when they’re just a […]
iStockphoto A plumber in Austria was renovating the basement of a villa when he started digging through concrete and found a box filled with gold coins. The coins ended up being worth an estimated $2.4 […]
A Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composition for a string trio, long believed lost or destroyed, has been discovered at a library in the German city of Leipzig, researchers say. Written in the 1760s, probably in the […]
Angelina Jolie has seemingly put her all into her next role — and spent half a year in training. The Oscar-winning actor recently wrapped filming her starring role in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” an upcoming biopic […]
French bands Phoenix and Air will both perform at the closing ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics on Sunday, August 11th. The two Versailles-based groups helped usher in the Olympics with a special concert at […]
The “starving artist” trope, at this point, informs most people’s default idea of an artist — especially most visual artists, outside of the ones that got paid in Facebook stock. It feels like if you […]
For all you Mozart buffs out there, there’s a piece of memorabilia up for grabs: his signature — but here’s the catch — you need some seriously deep pockets if you want to snag it. […]
Anyone who is passionate about the Academy Awards has spent time looking up facts and figures about the nearly 100-year-old awards show. This might happen when a new batch of nominations are announced, during the […]
When we watch a movie set in a bygone era, we’re not just looking for entertainment; we’re seeking a portal into the past. Films with the power to convincingly depict historical periods not only entertain […]
Tom Hulce, played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I’d really wanted the part of Younger Brother in Miloš Forman’s previous film Ragtime and had had a couple of disastrous meetings with him. When I met him for […]
The music industry is one of the largest existing industries. A lot of musicians and composers have shown their talent by creating music. In this industry, we have seen a lot of composers who have […]
What better way to introduce 2023 than the symphonic sound of one of the world’s greatest orchestras? For over seventy years the Vienna Philharmonic, founded in 1842, have been sounding in the New Year in […]
“I’m kind of just living on Pandora right now,” said James Cameron recently, as he tinkered with a remaster of his 2009 blockbuster Avatar, for rerelease in preparation for its sequel, Avatar: The Way of […]
What is Patrick Stump’s Net Worth? Patrick Stump is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor who has a net worth of $16 million. Patrick Stump is best known as the lead vocalist and […]