I returned to the movies last week to see Mel Gibson's thriller "Edge of Darkness." A large part of me was anxious to see it since I knew Gibson plays a Boston cop whose daughter is murdered in front of him. As Gibson's character, Detective Thomas Craven, launches his own investigation into his daughter's untimely demise, he starts unraveling threads to a conspiracy involving big business and government in Massachusetts.

While this sounds like a promising plot that could be quite more...

Check out some photos of Kanye West and Amber Rose at the Chanel Spring-Summer 2010 fashion show in Paris today. As usual, Amber drew attention with a strange looking outfit. What do you think about the beige hooded dress? See more photos after the jump!

The hip-hop star and his girlfriend were criticized be PETA this week for wearing floor-length lynx pelts to fashion week. PETA Vice President Dan Matthews said, "Kanye can't help making himself look like an idiot, whether more...

PARIS (Reuters) – A fragment of music by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had its first known public performance on Thursday in the western French city of Nantes, where it had lain for years in a municipal library.

The two pieces with a combined duration of under two minutes were played on the violin by Daniel Cuiller, artistic director of the baroque music ensemble Stradivaria before a small audience of journalists

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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero said she is starting to feel the adrenaline as she rehearses for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration next week.

Montero is preparing to perform a special tribute composed by John Williams at the Jan. 20 inauguration, along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and clarinetist Anthony McGill.

"As the date approaches, I'll be more and more into

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Multi-award winning soul singer and musical legend Van Morrison is set to release "Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl," an in-concert reworking of his historic 1968 gold-certified solo album. Recorded live over two nights at the Hollywood Bowl this past Nov. 7 and 8, the album marks the premiere release on Mr. Morrison's new EMI-distributed label, Listen to the Lion Records. "Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl" arrives in stores Feb. 10, 2009. A double-vinyl edition with three

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NEW YORK (Billboard) – Hyundai Motor Co. will use music by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma in a Super Bowl XLIII television commercial that consumers can re-edit online, Billboard has learned.

Classical music fans aren't the most obvious target for a National Football League telecast or an ad campaign with an online video editing component. But advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, which produced the Hyundai spot, said

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The male pop opera group, Il Divo has shook up the opera world and helped rid it of it's stale reputation. With a busy schedule promoting their newest album The Promise and preparing for their next world tour, charismatic tenor Urs Buhler took some time to chat with Starpulse about what was currently going on with the talented quartet.

Congrats on the new album by the way, The Promise which came out on November 18th. Now you all agree that this album happens to be the most

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