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Vanderbilt Blair School of Music Professor of Viola Kathryn Plummer will celebrate 50 years of performing and teaching in a special concert, 3 p.m. May 4 in Turner Recital Hall.

On The Price of Progress, The Hold Steady is fully locked in as they deliver an evolved, cinematic offering of their barroom tales of relationship hardships around broken hearts calcified by more than recreational drug use. 

Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli violin shop owner and master craftsman, reclaimed his lost heritage by restoring instruments nearly lost during the Holocaust. A concert featuring some of those instruments is

  Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times  Published: 05 May 2021 01:03 PM BdST Updated: 05 May 2021 01:03 PM BdST A mother holds the hand of her infant daughter in East Amherst, NY, on Dec 5, 2020. The New Year Times The birthrate declined for the sixth straight year in 2020, the federal government reported Wednesday, early evidence that the coronavirus pandemic accelerated a trend among American women of delaying ...

Washington: The birthrate in the US declined for the sixth straight year in 2020, the federal government reported Wednesday, early evidence that the coronavirus pandemic accelerated a trend among American women of delaying pregnancy. Early in the pandemic, there was speculation that the major changes in the life of American families could lead to a recovery in the birthrate, as couples hunkered down together. In fact, they appeared to have had the opposite effect: Births were down most sharply ...