F. Murray Abraham News

Actor F. Murray Abraham, left, poet Ilene Starger and Ohio-born composer Eric Shimolenis are collaborating on a song cycle set for premiere in January in Weill Recital Hall at New York's Carnegie Hall.

Pope Benedict has invited international artists, sculptors, architects, musicians, film directors and even a solitary Italian prima ballerina to meet him under the soaring vaulted ceiling of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel in the Vatican on Saturday to begin a new dialogue between the Catholic Church and the arts.

Classic FM has announced its Children's Hall of Fame. Now Roger Wright, the controller of Radio 3, has sent me a rival list a ' and it contains some great music for all ages Tom Hulce as Mozart in Amadeus: former child prodigy and inspiration to the young Tom Service.

The Louisiana Sinfonietta billed its Sunday concert at First Baptist Church as "When Salieri Meets Mozart." Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, of course, were musician peers of the late 18th century, both respected and successful.

Arjun and Mannu are childhood buddies from Bhatinda. But while Arjun grows up to create a rock band in London, nurturing a dream of storming Wembley with his concert, Mannu is content with his career in a local band.

From the Pulitzer -winning novel by Thornton Wilder comes writer-director Mary McGuckian 's adaptation of ' The Bridge of San Luis Rey ' a story of faith, doubt, struggle, tragedy, and love.

A deadly rivalry that never was, a dried-up bachelor who was actually a father of eight, and flops that were hits in reality a even getting Mozart's toilet humour right cannot redeem it Friends and enemies a Tom Hulce as Mozart and F Murray Abraham as Salieri in Amadeus.

The wolf was named Lobo and his reputation as a marauding killer sent Ernest Thompson Seton in the fall of 1893 to the wilds of New Mexico on a quest that changed his life and changed the future of America.

I haven't been a very good Pulp caretaker lately due to a long piece that is kicking my ass hard.