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Two new renditions of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” memorialize the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test ...
July 16, marked the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the US military’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon in the deserts of New Mexico.
On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later, the University of Chicago — the site of the first self-sustaining nuclear ...
Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, and Iggy Pop are among the many artists featured on new versions of the classic 1963 Bob Dylan protest song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” ...
At various points of the public event, the Nobel laureates and nuclear experts looked back at the Manhattan Project ...
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls. Now, a new arms race is heating up.
Kronos Quartet tap Iggy Pop, Stephin Merritt, Willie Nelson, Laurie Anderson & more to cover Dylan's "A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall" Kronos Quartet are marking the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear ...
After two-and-a-half days of meetings in a mostly sunny midsummer Chicago, concerned Nobel Prize laureates and many of the ...
The lineup includes bestselling author James Patterson, a blues concert presented by actor Morgan Freeman, and jazz with ...
Award-winning SF contemporary chamber group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) has announced a second two-year Call for Scores ...
Here comes rhymin’ Simon. It’s not a phrase we would have imagined saying again, in the context of a concert tour, after Paul ...
El Cerrito’s Vietnamese musician and composer Van-Anh Vanessa Vo has worked with the Kronos Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma, the Oakland Symphony, numerous jazz artists, rap artists and others.