Search results for

In times of trial and difficulty, we often turn to music. In this week's roundup, four stories that show the power and resilience of music in crisis.

From the very old to the very new, this month's Instant Replay is a vibrant mix of all kinds of music! Listen to our favorite songs for April.

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.

Also in this roundup, the irresistible Ukrainian Eurovision Song Contest winner, music for children in Wales, and the Muppets get destructive with Beethoven.

You were mesmerized by Dan Brown’s suspense novel, "The DaVinci Code." Now be enchanted by his music!

Conductor Avlana Eisenberg and journalist Celeste Headlee, William Grant Still's granddaughter, talk about a new collection of the composer's music, recorded with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

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.

Also in this roundup: an all-women orchestra in Colombia, a follow-up on the auction of a very romantic violin, and a chorister's hilarious reaction to teaching a toy koala how to sing Mozart.

"By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea." Time for us — and composers — to "Seas" the day!

Hear the towering – and polarizing – author in conversation about his 4,000-page book, The Oxford History of Western Music.