Granville Bantock was a good friend and champion of both Elgar and Sibelius and contributed enormously to the musical life of Birmingham. He helped to establish the City of Birmingham Orchestra in ...

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How do great artists get their start? The misty-eyed will say it all begins with a dream. At Juilliard, it takes a bit more than that. On a recent gray evening, a group of drama students were in their ...

Are you managing separate .env files alongside auth.json files for your Composer authentication? This plugin eliminates that redundancy by bringing industry-standard environment variable support ...

Environment Variables are responsible for storing information about the OS’s environment. Different apps and programs require different configurations, and Windows is responsible for ensuring each has ...

You have already written a “Hello, World!” program. As you can see, this isn’t very flexible—you provided the exact text you wanted to print. However, more often than not, we don’t know the values we ...

If you're working in a Linux environment, chances are you've encountered environment variables—even if you didn’t realize it at the time. They quietly power much of what goes on behind the scenes in ...

Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina, an intellectually probing artist who fused sound and spirituality, died Thursday at her home in Appen, Germany. She was 93 years old. Her death was confirmed by her ...

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genotyping is critical when preparing for stem cell transplants. The procedure is crucial to determine the genetic compatibility of the HLAs between the donor and ...

Folk music, depending on culture and global location, can broadly be described as traditional music. It’s often passed down through the generations orally as opposed to being notated but can cover a ...