Thom Bell, the Grammy-winning producer, writer and arranger who helped perfect the “Sound of Philadelphia” of the 1970s with the inventive, orchestral settings of such hits as the Spinners’ “I’ll Be ...

Although the sound of a ringing bell washed over campus Saturday, its source was not the Campanile — instead, the sound came from an electronic replication of the Russian Tsar Bell, according to a ...

"Invariably, when other producers and musicians would say that my sounds were odd for R&B, I would just tell them, ‘I don’t do R&B — I do music,'" said the man behind such hits as "Back Stabbers," "La ...

Buildings and art aren’t the only things that get preserved at the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. For one group, it’s all about sound. For the National Bell Festival, the sound the nonprofit ...