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The rousing song Jerusalem and other musical classics have been recorded for the first time as they were originally conceived nearly 100 years ago, following work by a Durham University expert.

A group of concert-goers are to experience the city as never before in a pioneering project led by University of Manchester music researchers today (29 June).

Civic leaders, arts organizations, donors and government officials can better plan new or expanded arts facilities by first focusing on the arts organizations' missions and assessing demand for the projects, according to a new study from the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago.

Viewpoint: The Sound of Music, fiscal integration and this week's Eurozone meeting Costas Milas, Professor of Finance at the Management School " In the musical 'The Sound of Music', Maria repeatedly

After 20 years of teaching Stanford students to learn by watching how women are portrayed in French cinema, Professor Jean-Marie Apostolidès has taught the class for the last time.

After years of being overlooked as a film genre, amateur cinema is finally being recognised by academics as a form that merits serious study in its own right, offering a surprisingly candid eye on people and the past.

The results could also help explain why popular musical trends continuously evolve and why traditional musical forms can persist for thousands of years.

The preeminent post-World War II American art collection will be showcased in a freestanding pavilion adjacent to the Cantor Arts Center.

Nandini Das , a senior lecturer from the School of English , is one of the winners of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers Scheme. The scheme is a nationwide search for the brightest academic minds with the potential to turn their ideas into fascinating broadcasts.

What is it that makes a movie successful? A faculty member from the Judge Business School believes that the industry and experts are looking in the wrong places when it comes to measuring the financial gain of a film - so often the bottom line when determining a 'hit'.

A structure which helped thousands of people embark on their journeys out of Plymouth over the space of six decades is the striking centerpiece of a new art exhibition.

Suman Banerjee's work finds plenty of happy users every day, but it's not every day the University of Wisconsin-Madison computer sciences professor helps inspire a national program supporting technical innovation.

A University of Manchester academic has been chosen as one of 10 winners of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers 2012.

Ever wonder why Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" moved so many people in 1969 or why the music in the shower scene of "Psycho" still sends chills down your spine?

The University of Chicago has been awarded a $400,000 grant to help fund programming for a new mixed-use arts facility that will open on Chicago's South Side this fall.

Best known for his work with people suffering from unusual brain disorders, Oliver Sacks admitted that when he started his medical career back in the 1960s, he wanted to work as a research scientist in a laboratory.

But that is what will happen when researchers from Plymouth University head for The Times Cheltenham Science Festival, which runs from June 12-17.

Staff and students at The University of Nottingham will be breathing life into characters from history and fiction to take local primary school pupils on a whistle-stop tour of the arts and humanities.

Visiting music meccas around the world is as close as that radio dial with the "Sense of Place" series on WXPN- FM's "World Cafe.

The world's largest working steam mill engine is to be transformed into a gigantic instrument at a unique concert this bank holiday weekend (Sunday 3 June).

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A new book by Professor Emma Wilson from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages looks at how death is addressed through modern artworks based in visual media.

At a lecture tomorrow, Professor Steven Shapin will decant some of the terminology of wine-tasting and look at the ways in which our relationship with wine reflects the way we live and how this has shifted over time.

Carl Hopkins , Head of the University's Acoustic Research Unit in the School of Architecture , was awarded the prestigious Tyndall Medal in recognition of his contribution to the field of acoustics.

The Australian National University and the ACT and Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry are working together to ensure a strengthened future for the ANU School of Music and the ACT music community.

AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center , a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has awarded more than 50 research fellowships for 2012-13.

A rare medieval service book is being unveiled in 'virtual form' in the Nottingham parish church where it was used during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.