Quarantine (Life and Culture)
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Listen as nine performers guide you through the emotional arc of Handel’s classic, from comfort to grief to jubilation. 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
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
The pandemic compressed live music onto screens, and Black Lives Matter protests brought it back to the streets. What will it all look like, and sound like, in 2021? Source
He cemented his place in the country pantheon in the 1970s with hits including “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” and “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone.” Source
Forty years after the musician’s death, a writer revisits conversations with the former Beatle about the long period of seclusion and self-reflection that inspired his breakthrough as a solo artist, and as a human being. Source
A host of livestreamed concerts, the sounds of silence, time-hopping quartets and at-home divas were among the highlights. Source
The 23-year-old Maryland rapper has built a cult following with her mixtapes of playful but bruising scream-rap. Now she’s releasing her major-label debut. Source
Playing her latest album for the first time with two collaborators who helped make it, Swift heightens the songs’ sense of pristine contemplation. Source
