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The disco-pop great salutes the sexiness of Marvin Gaye and the spirituality of Amazing Grace. But which of her own hits does she sing at karaoke? The first song I fell in love with I grew up in Newark, New Jersey, with five brothers and one sister, so there was always music in the house. I remember my mom singing Willow Weep for Me when I was five or six. There was something about the sadness in…

John Denver’s classic has been belted out during US matches at this tournament. Its appeal lies in the story it tells about a united America Lumen Field was designed for a moment like Friday’s. Under a blue sky dotted with clouds, the US men’s national team celebrated their victory over Australia with a lap around the stadium to thank their fans for creating a worthy atmosphere. I’ve reported fro…

Steve Coogan drops in on the lovably daft Northern Irish comedy, and the alt-pop superstar teases some relationship mysteries. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews Continue reading...

Garsington Opera, Wormsley Estate, Stokenchurch Director John Caird and conductor Laurence Cummings bring Monteverdi back to the Chiltern Hills with polished, festive inclusivity Lightning, it would appear, can strike twice in the Chiltern Hills. In 2022, director John Caird and conductor Laurence Cummings collaborated on a much-admired staging of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, a seminal work from 1607. Fou…

Tony-winning choreographer Sonya Tayeh was ‘broken up’ when she heard about the Irish singer-songwriter’s death three years ago. Now she and a group of over-40s female dancers are paying homage: ‘People love her, people need her’ Sonya Tayeh remembers watching Saturday Night Live in October 1992, at home in Detroit, when a young, shaven-headed woman behind a microphone tore a picture of Pope John…

Gerhardt/WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln/Manze (Hyperion) Alban Gerhardt eschews the romantic, heart-on-sleeve interpretations of these famous concertos, and finds nobility and poetry even in the most turbulent music Alban Gerhardt adopts a back-to-basics approach in these thoughtful readings of cello concertos by Elgar and Dvořák. Determined to counter ideas embedded in the collective musical psyche …

High-stakes musical aptitude examinations represent a significant source of evaluative stress for adolescent musicians, yet the psychological mechanisms that influence success in these environments require further empirical investigation. Grounded in social cognitive theory, this study developed and psychometrically evaluated the Music Aptitude Self-Efficacy Scale (MASES) to assess the multidimen…

Hip-hop producer behind Travis Scott’s Sicko Mode and Drake’s Nonstop has been found dead at home during a police welfare check The Grammy-nominated producer Tay Keith, who worked with Drake, Travis Scott and Beyoncé, has been found dead at his apartment in Nashville, Tennessee aged 29. Keith, whose real name was Brytavious Chambers, was discovered at home after police conducted a welfare check o…

James Conlon, whose 20 years as music director conclude with the final 'Magic Flute' on June 21, looks back on how opera has developed in L.A. over two decades.

Donor-funded UGA program cultivates young musicians into community-driven leaders. The post In a music town, tomorrow’s leaders take center stage appeared first on UGA Today .

Ehnes/Armstrong (Seattle Chamber Music Society) The Canadian violinist and American pianist – musical partners for over three decades – bring assurance and grace to these three violin sonatas written by Brahms in his creative prime. Written between 1879 and 1888, Brahms’s three violin sonatas are the work of a man in his creative prime. Between them, they cover a considerable emotional span, from…

(RCA) He can write a decent rousing chorus, but the Stargazing hitmaker’s influences couldn’t be more obvious if he tried – right down to a ghastly Galway Girl sequel You know what you’re getting with Myles Smith, an artist who set his musical stall out early on. Before he was the winner of the rising star award at the 2025 Brits, he started out at open mic nights, performing selections from the …

Musician Michael Cloud Duguay’s new album was born from a mission to capture the sound of the majestic yet increasingly rare instruments Michael Cloud Duguay and his band of collaborators were nearing the end of their pipe organ tour of Newfoundland when they encountered a hitch in Aguathuna, a town of about 400 people on a craggy peninsula that juts out from the Canadian island’s south-western e…

I found this topic addressed already but the answer was unclear to me. When writing ties for a vocal part, which of the following is correct, line 1, 2, or 3?

I’m an amateur musician. I often hear from relatives (who have an extremely good ear for music) that my musical ensembles are out of tune. I actually agree with that, since I have a similarly good ear ...

The originating member of the band with hits like If You Leave Me Now and Hard to Say I’m Sorry died after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease Walter Parazaider, a co-founding member of the rock band Chicago, has died at the age of 81 following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. His daughter confirmed the news in a Facebook post on Wednesday morning. Continue reading...

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As the World Cup gets underway, we look at the music that has soundtracked the beautiful game - and the composers who have loved it France ’98, when Scotland last faced Morocco at a World Cup – as they do this Friday – and lost a crucial game three-nil. ( John McGinn’s winner against Haiti in Boston on Sunday rewrites all the recent records and sets the team on a path to almost certain glory thi…

The current paper investigates whether people associate certain emotions and visual features (specifically roughness, colour, and brightness) with different musical intervals. It was hypothesised that more dissonant intervals would be associated more with sadness and tragedy while more consonant intervals would be more strongly associated with happiness and hopefulness instead. It was further hyp…