New Year’s gives us the chance to combine the best of the past year with hopes for the coming period. Similarly, the (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) WDR Big Band and WDR Symphony Orchestra here give us a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each year when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's, people around the world sing one song in unison. "Auld Lang Syne" has ...

On a night very much like this one, 83 years ago, jazz came to the rescue of Western Civilization. Big Band leader Guy Lombardo arrived right on time and brought in the new year with his lightly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You know the drill. As the New Year's Eve countdown draws to a close, the ball drops, and, if we're lucky, we finish our midnight ...

As “Auld Lang Syne” takes its annual spin around the globe on New Year’s Eve, its chorus belted out by revelers young and old, Edinburgh’s Poet Laureate Michael Pedersen says the song’s enduring power ...

It’s a song we often hear at the start of the new year. But what does “auld lang syne” even mean? And how did it come to be associated with New Year's Eve? With a little musical sleuthing, we find ...