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"The proportions alone are staggering," says Grammy-winning conductor Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra.

It stands as the crowning achievement of Western classical music.

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By 1961, Joan Baez, the dark-haired waif who had captured the spotlight at the first Newport Folk Festival just two years earlier, was folk music's virginal superstar, leading the coffeehouse culture of a new American generation. And an unknown, unwashed, Woody Guthrie—worshiping kid from the Minnesota suburbs named Bob Dylan had just arrived in Greenwich Village. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Positively 4th Street, DAVID HAJDU recalls the prickly beginnings of the Baez...

For decades, Buffy Sainte-Marie was celebrated as Americas most famous Indigenous musician. Recent revelations force a reconsideration of her music.

Today, American folk legend Jim Kweskin releases Never Too Late: Duets With My Friends (StorySound Records). Featuring a collection of 18 recordings and storied collaborations with some of his favorite female musicians, the new album stands as a testament to the generation and genre-spanning brilliance that has defined Kweskin's illustrious career for the past six decades.

Today, six decades after his first release, folk legend Jim Kweskin announces his new album Never Too Late, out January 26th through StorySound Records. The album features captivating duets with some of his favorite female singers, while simultaneously spotlighting the genre- and generation-hopping nature of Kweskin’s musical interests.

Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s fascinating new life of the great composer has a shrewd eye for the relation between man and music

The Tanglewood concert on the afternoon of Sunday, Aug. 7, provided a wonderful variety of music, from the delicate shimmer of strings to the heart-stopping loveliness of a double concerto