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07 Jan 2014 A little-remembered Jewish culture in Germany and Austria between the 1870s and 1930s was a hotbed of ideas which drove the formation of the European Union, according to new research.

You've bought the turkey, peeled the sprouts, and you know exactly what temperature the oven should be at.

Researchers are launching a unique mass participation study to discover if listening to loud music is contributing to the increase in hearing loss in the UK population. The scientists from the MRC Institute of Hearing Research , based on University Park campus, will be looking at how our listening past affects our hearing present.

Working alongside Plymouth City Council and Devonport-based regeneration agency the Real Ideas Organisation (RIO), the pioneering project will revamp the Market Hall site at the heart of the Devonport community.

New ways of bringing cultural archives into the digital age will be revealed at an unusual event at Broadway Cinema in Nottingham this week.

16 Dec 2013 A group of newly qualified University of Manchester graduates are bidding for a Christmas number one, as they set off on a mission to build a school in East Africa - by teaming up with a top Indie drummer.

Scientists report that pop music can improve the efficiency of solar cells and students tell tales of scaling huge rock faces in California.

How do people make sense of Tuner Prize nominee Tino Sehgal's These Associations' And what can cognitive scientists learn from the way they do it?

I t was all about transformation. "Trans Arts" was a two-hour panel Wednesday of poets, critics, and performers who in some cases identify with the gender opposite from the bodies in which they were born.

New lifestyles for Stone Hall House renewal provides undergrads with room to roam, learn, and gather S ince students moved back into Quincy House's Stone Hall in August, after 15 months of construction, they have explored and utilized the new academic, social, and study spaces in creative ways.

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12 December - 15 December 2013 'Watch the 2013 trailer for the Graduate Screenings on YouTube >> 'The annual public screenings of films by students graduating from the VCA School of Film and Te

An exhilarating evening awaits classical concert-goers as one of the masterpieces of Western music is performed at the Nottingham Albert Hall.

Adarsh Jayakumar's dad used to beat him at chess - but only for a few months. And only when he was 10.

Stanford has created two new maps - the interactive online Stanford Arts Map and the sturdy paper Campus Arts Map - to help art lovers find their way to one or all of the university's 87 works of publ

The untold story of the Cologne avant-garde after Dada and an exploration of the concept of the visual in relation to music are the focus of two books recently published by researchers in the Department of History of Art.

Actor, writer and television presenter Stephen Fry has been named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre, based at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

This is the first public exhibition of one of the most important collections of modern art in private hands in this country.

UAlberta professor finds parallels between depictions of women in Old Norse literature and female friendships today.

University of Washington Research in recent years has suggested that young Americans might be less creative now than in decades past, even while their intelligence - as measured by IQ tests - continues to rise. But new research from the University of Washington Information School and Harvard University, closely studying 20 years of student creative writing and visual artworks, hints that the dynamics of creativity may not break down as simply as that.

"Pop Goes Canadiana" showcases works donated to UAlberta collection by the artist who turned the moose into a national icon.

AUSTIN, Texas - The Harry Ransom Center , a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of artist Edward Ruscha (b.

Jerry Zolten, associate professor of at Penn State Altoona, strums some blues riffs on his 1932 National Steel Guitar, the preferred instrument for many of the Paramount recording artists.

The relationship between images and crime will be explored at this week's John Barry Memorial Lecture in Criminology at the University of Melbourne.

Polar explorer Antony Jinman will be promoting good nutrition to children, assisting dementia researchers and composing futuristic music as part of his latest epic adventure.

05 Nov 2013 A University of Manchester lecturer has discovered that the famous first line of English language's oldest epic poem has been misinterpreted, ever since it was popularised almost 200 years ago. Dr George Walkden, who is a historical linguist, says because translators of the iconic Beowulf have relied on a faulty interpretation of its first word, the meaning of its first sentence must be understood differently.

An ambitious programme, celebrating the birth of poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe 450 years ago, will begin later this month with a rare performance of his early work Dido, Queen of Carthage from 12 to 16 November.

Did you know that the Sun is playing its own stellar symphony, just like a musical instrument? Scientists at the University of Birmingham who study the 'music of the stars' have worked with sound arti

Understanding the musicality of the past can enrich the musical life of the present, said Christopher Hogwood Oct.

To be performed in Cambridge on Monday 28 October Zahhák, Dragon King of Persia is the retelling of a myth taken from the Shahnama or 'Book of Kings'.

An Oxford University classicist is bringing back to life the music of ancient Greece, unheard for thousands of years.

The University of Sheffield's Department of Music is bringing Tudor times to life thanks to the discovery of a collection of original and replica Tudor instruments.

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Composer Will Ogdon, founding chair of UC San Diego's department of music, died Oct. He was 92. Ogdon was hired in 1965 by Muir College Provost John Stewart, along with composer Robert Erickson, to create the music department at UC San Diego.

New research charting broad shifts in changing personal music tastes during our lifetimes finds that - while it's intrinsically linked to personality and experience - there are common music genre trends associated with key stages in a human life.