At two years old, Rahul Vellal wasn’t humming absent-mindedly—he was identifying devotional and film songs. Up to 50 of them.

The choirs will strive to be “loud, liberating and wonderfully imperfect,” with a good supply of “wonky notes.” ...

Richard Smallwood, who pioneered classical Black gospel, has passed away. His sophisticated sound and ministry impacted the ...

With caricatured men, fragile authority figures and dreamy mise-en-scènes, she undertakes a diagnostic exploration of power, ...

I took close to two weeks mostly off over the holidays. I played a little here and there – enough to teach, or record something – but there were stretches of several days where I didn’t touch the ...

Kristen Smigielski, Ph.D., was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, in a family of educators. Her grandfather, grandmother, ...

Your therapist asks if he can audio-record your session so he doesn’t have to take notes. What questions should you ask ...

There is a long-standing debate in the field of music cognition about the impact of musical training and whether formal ...

Epiphanies come, as epiphanies do, in unexpected and often far-flung settings. For trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, three such ...

Amherst resident Luke Pernici has built a career around music, balancing regular performances across Northeast Ohio with ...

My Life If It Were A Musical was initially conceived as a Broadway musical for live theater until the pandemic ...

Upper-caste elites struggled to santise the undertones of female sexuality and desire in these tunes, which women continue to ...