music

Chicago’s HotHouse presents the Havana Jazz Festival, 5 nights of sizzling music

January 14, 2021 By Special to People’s World

Their five-night online program features both Chicago legends and Cuban superstars in a two-hour presentation of all new material created for this exclusive event.

Remembering protest singer Phil Ochs on his 80th birthday

December 18, 2020 By Special to People’s World

Ochs was one of our nation’s most profound singer/songwriters in the period that bridged the Civil Rights, antiwar, and feminist movements.

The revolutionary history of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

December 8, 2020 By Jenny Farrell

Like few other composers, Beethoven expresses the will for freedom, the democratic longing of the people.

‘Accused’: Finnish composer tackles political interrogations from France, GDR and USA

November 18, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon

Living in a firmly established social democracy, Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg probably doesn’t hear very often about political interrogations in his own country, but the subject obviously interests him.

George Mann’s new CD, ‘The Coronavirus Sessions,’ pure joy in the struggle

November 2, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon

There’s something quite special about his latest CD, made under grueling conditions between March and August of 2020, one of our country’s roughest patches, and there have been a few.