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In Bars 2 and 3 of the final duet, ‘Natus cadit, atque Deus’, from Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus, the melodic line, taken by the first violins, falls below the upper line of the horns. It seems odd. ...

Celebrations filled the streets, subways and bars until well after midnight in the five boroughs after Knicks win Marvita Davis, 70, was a teenager in Harlem the last time the New York Knicks won a championship, in 1973. “I was like, Oh, I like this game. I can get into this game,” recalled Davis, who went on to play basketball at Northeastern University. Continue reading...

Snape Maltings, Suffolk This year’s Aldeburgh festival opened with a stripped-back concert staging by Rory Kinnear with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Trying to unlock the secrets of Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande, based on Maeterlinck’s symbolist play, is a slippery task at the best of times. Doing so in a barely there staging, with the orchestra on the pl…

Other western acts have attempted to crack country’s music scene since singer’s breakout success in 2018 One week after announcing she was “cancer free”, the British pop star Jessie J did what any recovering patient would do and travelled thousands of miles around the world to perform for an audience of more than a billion people. On 29 May, the singer-songwriter, whose real name is Jessica Corni…

Hot on the heels of his new album, “Sangú,” the Cuban jazz legend talks playing Coachella with Karol G, being knighted by the king of Spain and honored by former President Obama

The Hidden Orchestra: How Spotify Scripts Your Next Song Welcome back, pattern‑hunters. I’m the Systems Analyst, the voice behind The Pattern —the show that lifts the veil on the invisible systems shaping our daily lives. In this episode we pulled back the curtain on the music‑recommendation engine that decides what you hear between the beats. Below is the companion post that expands the audio ex…

(Geffen) Gossips have rushed to the lyrics for details about her personal life, but the rest of us can just get on with luxuriating in Rodrigo’s funny, Cure-infused craft With a certain crushing inevitability, the arrival of Olivia Rodrigo’s third album has been accompanied by a lot of frenzied decoding of its lyrics for references to Louis Partridge, the British actor whose relationship with the…

Tracker Music Collection Explore legendary MOD, XM, S3M tracks from the demoscene & hacking groups. Welcome to Keygen Music Explore legendary MOD, XM, S3M tracks from the demoscene & hacking groups. Explore legendary MOD, XM, S3M tracks from the demoscene & hacking groups. Explore legendary MOD, XM, S3M tracks from the demoscene & hacking groups.

The Ivor Novello-winning musician has written works inspired by his family history. He talks about building music from testimony – and why the Windrush generation deserves new narratives A briefcase-sized console with a large, sleek keypad, the MPC One drum machine is an eye-catching piece of kit. It can’t be easily overlooked among the various synthesisers, guitars, amps, samplers and vinyl albu…

The musician created his own line of loopers that record and layer riffs in a loop. The pricey Looper X does what it claims, but it isn’t without quirks.

Grande is the latest in a series of pop musicians including Sabrina Carpenter and SZA who have been angered by Trump administration videos Ariana Grande has rebuked Donald Trump’s White House over use of her music in a video documenting the detaining of immigrants. Earlier this week, the White House posted a montage of ICE agents handcuffing and detaining people, with the caption “Bye-bye Presid…

IntroductionPrevious research on digital music teaching in primary education has largely focused on learning outcomes, while often neglecting the underlying learning processes that contribute to these gains. This study investigates the extent to which digital music-driven instructional activities enhance primary students' music learning engagement and support the development of music literacy ski…

(Pussy Riot) On a disappointing record helmed by co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, corny guitars and generically moody synths undermine the activist group’s political acuity Great music rarely makes for great activism, and the reverse is true on Pussy Riot’s official debut album. A scattergun mix of icy electronics, pumping EDM and whispered rap, CYKA (“bitch” in Russian) follows a decade of musica…

Beamish/Corbett/Whitehead/Havlat/ Irvine/Thomson/Ventris (Delphian) The British composer’s celebratory album is a family affair Sally Beamish celebrates 70 years on planet Earth with an eclectic and profoundly personal album featuring friends and members of her talented musical family. At the centre of it all is Beamish herself, a musical shapeshifter, at home in classical, jazz or folk fiddle, p…

(Deutsche Grammophon) The pianist sisters’ celebration of their 55 years of recording is a thoughtfully curated compilation that reveals the extent of their omnivorous musical appetites In 1969, two teenage students at the Paris Conservatoire recorded Olivier Messiaen’s formidable Visions de l’Amen under the composer’s doubtless nerve-racking supervision. It was released in 1970. Fifty-five years…

Sinfonia Smith Square, London Tom Morris’s staged take on Mahler’s first symphony is valiantly performed by Stephanie Childress and Sinfonia Smith Square, but the result feels more like R&D than a finished product If you’re Macbeth, a moving forest generally isn’t a good thing. But what if you’re Mahler? The instrumentalists of Sinfonia Smith Square, conductor, Stephanie Childress and director,…

(Dirty Hit) Aided by Jack Antonoff, Kim Gordon, Sampha and more, the cello-playing singer-songwriter’s abstracted yet tuneful second album is worth the seven year wait Seven years separate the release of cello-playing singer-songwriter Kelsey Lu’s debut album, Blood , from its follow-up. Lu has suggested the long gap was an act of artistic rebellion against a music industry obsessed with providin…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-50471-9 A deep learning framework for emotion recognition in music using multimodal data fusion

Stranger Things actor makes first public comments about his ex’s revealing hit album which tracks the dissolution of a relationship David Harbour has spoken about his ex Lily Allen ’s tell-all album West End Girl for the first time in a new interview. The Stranger Things actor, who is on the Emmys trail for the HBO crime drama DTF St Louis, separated from the singer in early 2025 after they marri…