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When words fade, music remains. Explore how sound, silence, and presence offer comfort, connection, and meaning at the end of life.

It's festival season in Montreal! The Afropop team has just returned from the 39th Nuits D'Afrique Festival, and there will be lots of reporting rolling out from our thrilling five days of music and ...

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As one of Sweden’s greatest pianists, Wilhelm Stenhammar performed his own Piano Concerto No. 1 for about 15 years with great success. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece.

To gain experience writing for orchestra before tackling his first symphony (at age 46) and avoiding negative comparisons to Beethoven, Brahms composed other orchestral works from his mid-20s ...

Each role comes with a new physical or emotional demand, and Kartik continues to raise the bar not just for himself but for ...

It’s called BAN - Stories Of Censorship and features new artistic responses to the ongoing banning of books, art and music. Composers from Afghanistan, Turkey, the U.S. and others, reflect on the ...