Composer and conductor Steve Hackman from Chicago hopes to break down barriers between the classical and pop music worlds. It hasn’t been easy.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra launched The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The Best of TSO & More Tour in Council Bluffs, Iowa. These songs made the setlist.

If you read about John Lennon’s songwriting methods, you realize he got ideas from everywhere. For what became his least favorite Beatles song, John used a line from an Elvis hit as a ...