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Attacca Quartet / Caroline Shaw, 'First Essay (Nimrod)'

Aug 04, 2022
The versatile Attacca Quartet offers a funhouse of musical trap doors in a piece by the Pulitzer-winning composer Caroline Shaw.
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What Wild Up unearths on <em>Julius Eastman, Vol. 2: Joy Boy</em><em> </em>is more than just music, it's a set of relations and modes of comporting in the world that risk trading fleeting, worldly praise to regain the eternal soul.

Interpreting the music of Julius Eastman, Wild Up honors the composer's vastness

Aug 04, 2022
The feat the Los Angeles group Wild Up achieves in interpreting the music of Julius Eastman is the refusal to attempt impersonation — the musicians make him their muse without fetishizing him.
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Johnny Gandelsman, 'O'

Jul 21, 2022
Hear one of the intrepid violinist's 22 commissioned works, focusing on the harrowing year that was 2020.
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At the beginning of her career, Kaija Saariaho had plenty of doubts. She ended up becoming one of the most revered composers of her generation.

Kaija Saariaho, a composer with ears wide open

Jul 21, 2022
From sexist professors and low self-esteem to worldwide acclaim, the Finnish composer talks about her path to success and her relentless pursuit of sound.
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Mivos Quartet performs a Tiny Desk concert.

Mivos Quartet: Tiny Desk Concert

Jul 19, 2022
The Mivos Quartet offers a new, colorful piece by Henry Threadgill and music by Robert Honstein inspired by the shimmering light at the Arctic Circle.
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Deceptive Cadence
UC Berkeley Professor Richard Taruskin, whose 4000-page book <em>The Oxford History of Western Music</em> set a benchmark for writing about the history of classical music.

Remembering Richard Taruskin, a writer who made you care about 1,000 years of music

Jul 14, 2022
Hear the towering – and polarizing – author in conversation about his 4,000-page book, The Oxford History of Western Music.
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Kali Malone, 'Living Torch II'

Jul 08, 2022
On Kali Malone's "Living Torch II," distortion and feedback reshape mourning into triumph.
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Essential Voices USA performs a Tiny Desk concert.

Essential Voices USA: Tiny Desk Concert

Jul 01, 2022
Watch a world premiere performance of choral songs built on texts from important Washington women, from Kamala Harris and Condoleezza Rice to Eleanor Roosevelt, Elena Kagan and Abigail Adams.
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Hatis Noit, 'Aura'

Jun 28, 2022
With only her voice as an instrument, the Japanese singer conjures a world of sound and color, with operatic élan.
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NPR Music's 36 Favorite Albums of 2022 (So Far)

Jun 28, 2022
The best albums from the first half of the year include sprawling offerings from Big Thief and Bad Bunny, works of fiery introspection from Kendrick Lamar and S.G. Goodman and an abundance in between.
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J'Nai Bridges performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

J'Nai Bridges: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Jun 27, 2022
The Grammy Award-winning opera singer performs a classical, jazz and gospel influenced set.
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Saba (left), Lizzo (center) and Rosalía have released some of our favorite songs of the year so far.

NPR Music's 36 Favorite Songs of 2022 (So Far)

Jun 27, 2022
The songs we love from the first half of the year span a wide emotional and musical range, from wild percussive romps to raw pleas for empathy to Beyoncé's command to leave it all on the dance floor.
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Deceptive Cadence
Vijay Gupta performing with some of the professional musicians in Street Symphony at the Midnight Mission on LA's Skid Row.

Street Symphony plays in harmony with Skid Row's 'sacred spaces'

Jun 27, 2022
Vijay Gupta was a 19-year-old violin prodigy when he joined the LA Philharmonic. Now he runs Street Symphony, an organization bringing music to clinics, jails and homeless shelters on Skid Row.
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Karim Sulayman, Raha Mirzadegan, Coral Dolphin and John Taylor Ward perform in <em>Unholy Wars</em> in Charleston, S.C., in May.

An Arab American singer reframes music about the Crusades

Jun 20, 2022
A new project conceived by Lebanese American tenor Karim Sulayman recasts baroque music that by turns demonizes and exoticizes Arabs and Muslims.
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Composer Carlos Simon's <em>Requiem for the Enslaved</em>, commissioned by Georgetown University, is a reckoning with the school's troubled history.

'Requiem for the Enslaved' holds a major university's truths up to the light

Jun 17, 2022
Georgetown University owes its survival to slavery. A new album by Carlos Simon, an assistant professor at the school, unflinchingly confronts that legacy.

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