music
W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes texts set to music by Margaret Bonds
October 26, 2023Textually and musically, we can be grateful that these stunning works can now be heard and appreciated.
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Reena Esmail and Philip Glass: Musical movers of heaven and earth
October 23, 2023Los Angeles Master Chorale is laudably not just about the grand old masterpieces of massed voices, but also about new music with the capacity to speak to today’s audiences.
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‘The War on Disco’: Winners and losers in 1970s American culture
October 16, 2023As long as there has been culture, there have been cultural wars. Whenever there have been differences between individuals or groups within society, there has been a battle of ideas, styles, language, narrative, dress, and entertainment.
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Songs of Argentina fill new album with bass-baritone Federico De Michelis
October 12, 2023Argentina’s rich musical world is often subsumed, and so wrongly, under the single word “tango.” There’s so much more.
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Por primera vez en la gira de música indígena, Native Guitars en Nashville
October 4, 2023NASHVILLE—El sonido de la electrizante música de guitarra indígena se pudo escuchar en Music City cuando el Native Guitars Tour (NGT) honró a Nashville con una rapsodia de la música de un colectivo de artistas de...
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