Imagine this: a summer’s night out in Barbie land, where women of all ages and backgrounds are running the show. It’s a land for Barbie girls in a Barbie world, where pink-clad besties can enjoy a ...

CAIRO (AP) – Just from hearing it, it’s like any professional orchestra. But the assembly of white-veiled Egyptian women in matching black gowns has a startling difference. Every woman in the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's first -- and only -- all-female symphony is trying to change attitudes in a deeply conservative country where many see music as immoral, especially for women. The ...

Salsa music originated in New York in the 1960s with influence from Puerto Rican and Cuban cultures after a mass movement of Puerto Ricans migrated to the city in the 1950s.

An orchestra composed of 30 Afghan women, ages 14 to 20, is defying stereotypes and reviving the country's musical tradition. All-Female Orchestra From Afghanistan Is A Force For Change It's perhaps ...

To note that Gloria!, the directing debut of Italian actor-singer-songwriter Margherita Vicario, is vapid, pseudo-feminist, sentimental piffle would be entirely accurate. And yet, one must also admit ...

German director Volker Schlöndorff, who won the Cannes’ Palme d’Or and an Oscar for his 1979 drama “The Tin Drum,” is set to direct a film about how Antonio Vivaldi — the 18th-century Italian composer ...

NEW ORLEANS — In the U.S. orchestra population –– fewer than one in four women hold the coveted position of conductor, assistant conductor, or even music director. That number grows even smaller when ...

Havana — Her first intention was to break stereotypes and demonstrate that the Cuban woman is much more than a sexual object, and adhering to that principle Zenaida Romeu, the first orchestra ...