The best music writing isn’t nostalgia, It’s cultural archaeology — These books reclaim what music history left out.

The teacher is charged with four counts of battery and one count of offenses against students by authority figures.

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This is FRESH AIR. There are two fat, new biographies of composers and pianists born 43 years apart. Their music transcended jazz, but recognition for their work was slow - James P. Johnson, born in ...

When a forgotten piece of music resurfaces after more than a century, the notes on the page return intact, but something far ...

A Ghost Story ending explained explores what was on the note, why C disappears, and how the film’s haunting time loop works ...

I hadn’t touched a mandolin since adolescence, and, even then, I’d only fooled around. My wife was beside me. “Do it,” she ...

George Lewis’s new piece brought in the percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire, in an evening that also featured the soprano ...

Participants receive individualized feedback from a master teacher, helping them refine their artistry, technique, and musical expression. Unlike competitive events, the festival emphasizes growth, ...

The human brain operates as a tireless prediction machine. It watches a dropped glass and anticipates the shatter. It listens ...

If there is a throughline for the following reviews, it isn't genre or even era so much as adjustment under pressure -- ...

A study of a long-forgotten musical work reveals that rediscovery does not restore how it was originally performed.