Tuesday’s Bach Festival performance in the elegant Marie Antoinette Room of the Davenport Hotel lived up to its billing as an “intimate evening with J.S. Bach and his French colleague Rameau.” The ...

What is it? The simplest explanation would be that it's a piano, but with the strings plucked rather than struck, although the harpsichord actually predates the piano. Who uses it? Chiefly associated ...

Leonardo da Vinci didn’t seem to take a day off. If he wasn’t painting a masterpiece, he was making major discoveries in anatomy. If he wasn’t making major discoveries in anatomy, he was designing ...