The 1972 concert film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, back in cinemas this week, would change the way many thought of Pompeii.

Henze’s music is largely in a clangorous twelve-tone technique. After a successful series of performances in Germany, Boulevard Solitude was chosen as a showpiece for Rome’s two-week ...

Now, we go again – onwards and upwards! Ancient sounds In 1971, Pink Floyd performed one of the most memorable gigs in music history in the ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheater in Pompeii. Sans ...

Music is an important part of many religious ceremonies by lifting spirits and often being the prayer itself. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports for TODAY on how Rome's Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music ...

Marco Ober/Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA Famously we are told by Roman historian ... of their music played in space . But many are not aware of their earlier roots in the dust of ancient Pompeii.