Guy Lombardo

“I didn’t want to be a ballet dancer. My motivation was the musicals,” says Arthur Mitchell, one of the 20th-century’s noblest classical dancers, who grew up in New York City in the 1940s enamored of Broadway. “Vaudeville was incredible. The.......

How quickly the climate changes these days. The Hollywood Bowl opened its classical season last week in deep freeze, wind unwelcome, the audience bundled in blankets and winter coats. Thursday night, though, was like the tropics in the Cahuenga Pass,........

Happy New Year. We hope you have a pleasurable New Year’s Eve full of mirth and glad tidings from friends and family. Remember to sing “Auld Lang Syne” and to dig out those old Guy Lombardo recordings to see the New Year in with the...

Dick Clark, the youthful-looking television personality who literally introduced rock 'n' roll to much of the nation on "American Bandstand" and for four decades was the first and last voice many Americans heard each year with his New Year's Eve...

Alfred P. Mason, a retired Baltimore businessman and a co-founder of the Epicurean Club, which recognized local sports figures, died Saturday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Copper Ridge assisted-living facility in Sykesville. A resident...

As one of the last living participants in Hartford's exuberant Golden Age of Jazz after World War II — an era when future giants Horace Silver and Gigi Gryce graced the swinging club scene in the North End — pianist Emery Austin Smith is...

Edie Wasserman, who was the widow of Hollywood powerhouse Lew Wasserman and who was known as a tireless benefactor for charitable causes, especially the Motion Picture and Television Fund, has died. She was 95. Wasserman died Thursday in Beverly Hills of...

Step back in time with the music of your life, by attending the American Big Band production coming to the Arcadia Theater, 1418 Graham Ave., Windber, at 8 p.m. Saturday. Frank Cunsolo, the executive director and chairman of the board of directors,...