No work of music has a greater lock on a single ritual than Edward Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March no. 1 does on American graduations. Cock an ear in the direction of high school and university ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Graduations throughout the United States erupt with some familiar sounds every year: the ...

Around 2,200 graduates received their degrees Dec. 13 during the University of Alabama's fall 2025 commencement at Coleman ...

For Associate Professor of Jazz Studies Paul McKee, it doesn’t seem all that long ago that he was playing a gig with a small combo at yet another wedding. Around him were a handful of bored players, ...