Music the artform and artists
Remembering Pharoah Sanders, Who Sought Divinity on Earth
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- Tuesday, 27 September 2022
To hear Pharoah Sanders tell it, he spent his six-decade career reaching for something that was always just beyond him. From the ecstatic flights of his playing, and the sometimes explicitly religious iconography he employed to contextualize it, it is clear that the something he sought had a spiritual dimension.
It’s not salsa or ranchera music – Latino punk rock in the US
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- Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Latino musical diversity is much more than indigenous, vernacular and regional music. Explorations of the Latino musical identity have delved into jazz, rock and beyond.
How diverse music traditions have influenced Saudi Arabia’s identity and culture
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- Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Folk music traditions in Saudi Arabia are diverse and complex, combining distinctive tones, rhythms and melodies with poetry, percussion, and dances that have been passed down through generations.
Soubi, la musique et la vie
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- Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Aux Comores, impossible de ne pas connaître le talent de ce musicien qui vibre et qui, à presque 65 ans, collabore tous azimuts et espère rencontrer le succès international pour enfin vivre de son art.
La música en la antigua Grecia
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- Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Es admirada la cultura y el arte que nos dejaron los antiguos griegos. Pero ¿cómo era la música en la antigua Grecia?
New York’s Hispanic influence
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- Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Recognized as the world’s cultural epicenter, much of New York City’s influence on popular music around the world comes from the Latinos that live and perform there.
A lost Yiddish opera complete
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- Tuesday, 13 September 2022
How a composer, librettist and historian filled in the blanks on the missing masterpiece 'Bas Sheve'.
On the record
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- Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Can we really know what Enrico Caruso sounded like, from the records he made at the dawn of recordings, at the dawn of the twentieth century? We get a very helpful approximation. What our ears miss, our imaginations can fill in.
The Monks Who Took the Kora to Church
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- Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Sixty years ago, a Senegalese monastery gave up the organ for the kora, a traditional calabash harp. The monks’ innovations brought the instrument to the world stage—and transformed sacred music.
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