Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Back in 1974, Philly composers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff wrote “TSOP (The Sound of ...

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying. By Alexandra Jacobs My colleague ...

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.

And he begins, and ends, with the variations Bach reportedly composed to send the insomniac Count Keyserling to sleep. The ace teenage harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg helped to snuff out his ...