Music
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With 16 bands over four nights, the festival expanded its reach at a time when live music with audiences is in short supply. Source
Darkness Sounding, a solstice-inspired embrace “of the body and for the body,” is coming from the group Wild Up. Source
Recent court rulings require officers to keep watch over artists’ rap lyrics, which prosecutors say celebrate gangs and violent crimes. Source
It’s an instrument based on the most fundamental sign of life: breath. Listen to the best music ever written for it. Source
The delay comes less than four weeks before the ceremony was to be held, on Jan. 31. Source
It isn’t too late to make (cheap!) plans to welcome 2021 with music. A host of concerts will be streaming around the globe and major stars will take the stage on TV. Source
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, spent months rehearsing for its Christmas Eve service, which is broadcast worldwide. Its hope was to perform it live. Source
The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival. Source
At churches like St. James in Louisville, Ky., services this Christmas will not have in-person choirs or orchestras. But music directors are finding ways to persevere. Source
Merck Mercuriadis thinks songwriters deserve more credit — starting with blockbuster paydays for their catalogs. But not all artists want to sell out. Source
