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Central Park Is Alive With The Sound Of Music, Thanks To A Site-Specific App
Created by Pulitzer-winning composer Ellen Reid, Soundwalk lets visitors score their socially distanced walks around the park with an ever-changing, GPS-sensitive soundtrack.
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The Beatles' 'Now and Then' is a wistful curiosity, 45 years in the making
The Beatles' final song could never live up to the body of work that precedes it. But it could never diminish it, either.
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Igor Levit: Tiny Desk Concert
The insightful pianist offers a Beethoven bonanza, ranging from the mesmerizing pulse of the popular "Moonlight" Sonata to flashes of wry humor and tender beauty.
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A prickly Ralph Fiennes uplifts a town through music during WWI in 'The Choral'
A northern English town loses its best choral singers to fighting in World War I but finds new hope in a time of loss through music in Nicholas Hytner's new film "The Choral," featuring Ralph Fiennes.
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Here are Kansas City's 2025-26 classical music seasons all in one place
As a gathering place for all classical music lovers in Kansas City, Classical KC shares as many upcoming performance seasons by local groups as we can get our hands on.
8 Tracks: We reimagine Lilith Fair for 2024
Recent songs by Maggie Rogers and Kacey Musgraves took NPR Music's Lars Gotrich back to a familiar sound and ethos. On this edition of 8 Tracks, we dream up a Lilith Fair lineup.
Noah Kahan on TikTok fame, his sold-out arena tour and taking his mom to the Grammys
Noah Kahan went from writing a pandemic album on his parents' farm in rural Vermont to selling out an arena tour and being nominated for best new artist at the Grammys.
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Taylor Swift's songs are already classics. So we chose classical pieces to pair with every era
In honor of Taylor Swift's concerts in Kansas City, Classical KC has paired a classical work with each of Swift's musical eras. Are you ready for it?
Kansas City’s Nora Holt composed more than 200 musical works. Then they all got stolen
Nora Holt was the first Black person in the United States to earn a master’s degree in music. A prolific composer and a club-hopping socialite, she once wrote a 42-page work for a 100-piece orchestra. But you’ve probably never heard any of it. Scholars have dreamt of finding her stolen manuscripts for nearly a century.
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Tierra Whack opens up: 'Don't we all fake it?'
The success of the polymath's technicolor Whack World EP left something darker brewing beneath the surface. Years later, she talks about pushing through self-doubt to rediscover her confidence.
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