The National’s Matt Berninger and his wife and co-songwriter Carin Besser recently wrote a love song while lingering by baggage claim at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. That ...

Near the beginning of “Cyrano,” Joe Wright’s film adaptation of the stage musical opening Feb. 25, a song called “Madly” fills the air. It’s a dense thicket of strings that brings to mind the ...

Early in the movie named after him, Cyrano de Bergerac — played by Peter Dinklage — is talking with his friend and fellow soldier. A fiddle player noodles something folkish in the background when Le ...