Brevard Music Center kicks off its 2025 Summer Festival this week, set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Classical Music Stories from NPR
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Prepare your face to assume and remain in the stank position. It's about to get funky.
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Breathless and expansive, Kris Davis' layered music is a mosaic of emotional expression.
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Snider's supercharged relationship with her art form and open-book stance on depression and anxiety shine through in her new opera, which debuts this week in Los Angeles.
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The Spanish singer Rosalía talks about her new album 'Lux,' a head-spinning, epic album that features classical music, opera and the artist singing in 13 languages.
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Despite singing of heartbreak or sadness, Emily King's barely-contained excitement brightens the room between each tune.
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Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday.
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For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, innovative music and American ingenuity. (And free concerts.)
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With its fusion of funk, jazz, Afrobeats and R&B, the British band conveys a radical mission to choose joy.
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Glover fought to build a life in music. From Portland, Ore., to New York City, her story traces resilience, creativity and the strength she found through sincerity.
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The restless musician, sporting less electronic gear than usual, spotlights the acoustic warmth of her instrument in pieces stimulated by Bach's cello suites.