Blackstone Inc. is folding its growth business into a new West Coast-based division that will focus solely on the alternative ...

Blackstone is folding its growth equity business into a new unit called BXN1 that will focus on AI-related investment, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Information. Jas Khaira, Blackstone ...

The University of Chicago will celebrate Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s music over the course of a 10-day festival—one that will examine how his life and work show a transformational change from composing ...

83 years ago, Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote a film soundtrack that changed Hollywood. The year was 1938, and it was supposed to be a quick trip to Hollywood for the Viennese composer as he took a ...

Despite golf being a traditionally male-dominated and buttoned-up sport, it has seen explosive growth amongst women and younger demographics in recent years. According to the National Golf Foundation, ...

Happy Birthday, Erich Wolfgang Korngold! The Austrian-American composer and de-facto father of Hollywood Film Music as we know it, was born today in 1897 – 119 years ago. Korngold’s story is ...

Jon Korngold, Blackstone senior managing director and head of the growth-equity investing platform. Photo courtesy of the firm. Just nine months since joining one of the world’s biggest multi-asset ...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was 50 years old at the time of the 1947 debut of his Violin Concerto in D Major, a lyrical and exuberant work begun a decade earlier. The half-century mark can seem ...

Ronald reagan considered “Kings Row” (1942) his best work as an actor. Beyond its presidential cast, the small-town melodrama has another claim to fame. Moviegoers may find its lavish soundtrack ...

“That sounds like film music” is a put-down that deserves to be retired. The usual intention is to dismiss a work as splashy kitsch. Over the past century, though, enough first-rate music has been ...

A revived Erich Korngold opera reminds us that he was more than a composer of stirring film scores. By Ivan Hewett It's been a good month for sightings of long-lost, semi-mythical big beasts of ...