Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) In “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed ...

Dowland was an important and beloved composer at a time when there was no dichotomy between popular and classical music. He was, in effect, an... John Dowland's Art Of Melancholy John Dowland's Art Of ...

Has there ever been a more melancholy - one might even say downright miserable - songwriter than John Dowland? Morrissey doesn't come close. In songs such as In Darknesse Let Me Dwell, Flow My Tears ...

Chicago’s most unlikely but welcome celebration of a composer occurred Friday night at Mandel Hall, when lute player Elizabeth Kenny joined the consort of viols Fretwork in observing the 450th ...

Recently we received a memo at the station from the good legal minded folks at DowLohnes and subsequently had a meeting with the KUHF attorney to discuss the government’s latest attack on broadcasters ...

My coming month is devoted to lute song, one of the glories of the English renaissance—and, more particularly, to the work of John Dowland. This year marks the 400th anniversary of his death: born in ...

John Dowland, the Elizabethan composer, songwriter and lutenist, has been enjoying a quiet, belated renaissance. He dubbed himself “Semper Dowland, semper Dolens” – always Dowland, always doleful – ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Elvis Costello and Sting, in his album Songs from the Labyrinth, have won John Dowland a bigger audience than he ever ...

Alongside its plays the candle-lit interior of the intimate Sam Wanamaker Playhouse also hosts musical performances. This first CD release from in-house Globe Music, recorded in the theatre’s fine ...

John Dowland’s songs were massively popular in the Elizabethan era. They played into an idea of English melancholy that continues today, writes Andrea Valentino. For such an influential musician, we ...

In “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed clinically depressed Elizabethan England, Robert Burton now and then turned his attention to America and ...