Mr. Davis's New-Age-meets-classical Christmas-music ensemble, now made up of two large bands who crisscross the country during the holidays, has sold more than 28 million Christmas records.

WSJ: The Mannheim Steamroller Founder's Wild Holiday Home

Heavily influenced by the guitar-ensemble performances of Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham, the band's first two records, Confusion Is Sex and Kill Yr Idols, were both released in 1983.

NPR: Sonic Youth: The First Quarter-Century

In Paris in the early nineteen-eighties, two young couples cross paths: a poetic dilettante and his pedantic girlfriend and a singer in a Baroque ensemble and her computer-programmer boyfriend.

NEWYORKER: Le Pont des Arts