The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...

Though well sung, Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical faces an uphill staging battle in this Seattle production at ACT Theatre.

Let Me Be Your Star,” which evokes an actor’s longing to shine, has come a long way from its TV days. Here’s how the song ...

Provan said in an email her radio show, “Current Obsessions,” combined her eclectic music interests — Disney, Broadway, pop, ...

I cried and cried when I recorded that song. I can't get myself to perform it in concert yet," Loretta Lynn said of her song in 2000.

I’m translating my talk to tones.” Nora Cheng sings this lyric in the song “Information Content” but it comes through as a ...

Songwriters Festival returns this year for its sixth edition, continuing to celebrate the power of original music, ...

Language has long been seen as a defining trait of human intelligence. Unlike the communication systems of other species, human language consists of predictable, recurring elements that follow ...

Ali Sethi in the minimalist video of ‘Tera Sitam’, shot and directed by Zanzie.Since Ali Sethi, a sensitive and subversive ...

The doctoral dissertation by Analía Capponi-Savolainen explores the singing experiences of 6–7-year-old first-grade children in a culturally diverse school in Finland's capital region. The ...