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When it comes to the banjo, Alison Brown transcends the instrument. While the banjo is most associated with bluegrass and roots music, Brown is progressive, a

He credits jazz great Chick Corea as a key mentor. After being commissioned to compose for the Kronos Quartet, he was asked to join as its cellist.

The musical language of Al Oud joins concepts of Nubia and Arabia to express the intersections in which Hamza El Din lived.

Here is how Darren Aronofsky and company created one of the most unsettling and unforgettable movies of the 21st century.

2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music winner Raven Chacon makes an epic work with organ, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, percussion, strings, and sine tones.

Pioneering figure of the post-punk / avant-industrial underground, JG Thirlwell is returning to

Nonesuch Records released Natalie Merchant’s Keep Your Courage, her tenth solo studio album and first of new material since 2014’s self-titled record, on April 14, 2023. An eclectic album, produced by Merchant, it features two duets sung with vocalist Abena Koomson-Davis (Resistance Revival Chorus), contributions from the Celtic folk group Lúnasa and Syrian virtuoso clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, and horn arrangements by jazz trombonist Steve Davis. There are lush orchestrations throughout by sev...

There's a lot of music, dance and art going on the Mission District and Andrew Gilbert is going to write about it weekly.

Concerts include new works by fellows and established composers, plus classics by contemporary music icons.

Inspired in the early 1970s by a remarkable piece of music, David Harrington began searching for players who would devote themselves to unconventional music. Five decades later, the quartet is still at it.