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America has made a larger contribution to the history of music than any other nation, writes Richard Morrison... no really!

Soprano Julia Bullock presents her song recital, 'From Ordinary Things,' with cellist Seth Parker Woods and pianist Connor ...

Politics will continue to produce absurdities at a breakneck pace. Power will continue to inflate itself into balloon-animal ...