Swami Satchidananda, the guru with the gigantic cottony beard who opened the Woodstock festival by calling music ” the celestial sound that controls the whole universe, ” died Monday in Madras in ...

The Rev. Sri Swami Satchidananda, the guru who opened at Woodstock, died early Monday morning in India. He was 87. Rev. Satchidananda, born in South India in 1914, first came to the United States in ...

Alice Coltrane spent the mid-Sixties in personal and musical bliss, starting a family with John Coltrane and touring the world as the pianist in his band. But everything changed for her in the summer ...

It had been relentless since Michael Brown in 2014, and a visceral kind of hopelessness had drifted in like fog as the names and the cities piled one on top of the other. So when an acquaintance ...