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Essential Voices USA performs a Tiny Desk concert.
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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

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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Deceptive Cadence
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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USA. Mississippi. Tunica. 1985.

Songs to believe in: A Juneteenth playlist

Jun 16, 2022
This Juneteenth, pianist Lara Downes remembers the freedom that has been hard fought and hard won.
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David Lang

David Lang, 'again (after ecclesiastes)'

Jun 14, 2022
In music of translucent constancy, the Pulitzer-winning composer finds philosophical questions — and comfort — in the Old Testament.
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Tenor Jamez McCorkle, who debuted the title role in the opera <em>Omar</em><em></em>, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, which received its world premiere on May 27 in Charleston, S.C., at Spoleto Festival USA.

The debut of 'Omar,' a thoroughly American opera

Jun 07, 2022
Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.
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Musician Ingram Marshall in an undated publicity photo.

Composer and performer Ingram Marshall dies at age 80

Jun 02, 2022
Visionary musician Ingram Marshall has died at the age of 80; a leading figure of the West Coast avant-garde music scene, Marshall forged unusual connections between minimalism and electronic music.
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, left, with composer John Williams, right. The pair recently released a collaborative recording, <em>A Gathering of Friends</em>, with the New York Philharmonic.

Composer John Williams and cellist Yo-Yo Ma bring together 'A Gathering of Friends'

May 24, 2022
On a new album, the classical stars revisit the concerto Williams composed specifically for Ma, as well as some of Williams' most affecting film scores.
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Wild Up, 'Stay On It'

May 18, 2022
The Los Angeles-based band refurbishes an enigmatic, but entrancing piece by the late Julius Eastman, whose music is enjoying a well-deserved resurgence.
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Third Coast Percussion's new album, <em>Perspectives</em>, is the group's most accessible.

Third Coast Percussion's borderless music finds inspiration in fleet-footed beats

May 13, 2022
On a new album, the most accessible so far, the Grammy-winning group reaches out to an EDM wizard, a famous film score composer and Philip Glass.
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