1. Moor Mother’s “The Great Bailout,” Sept. 14. In one of the most powerful artistic experiences I’ve had this century, the audaciously courageous composer and poet Camae Ayewa and seven ...

Among a full spring and summer season at Wigmore Hall is a particularly strong line-up of pianists. Recitalists include Leif Ove Andsnes (January 12), Nelson Goerner (March 27) Richard Goode (May ...

OUSSAMA ZAHR There may have been no harder hitting one-two punch in music this year than Julius Eastman’s “Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc,” a harrowing solo vocal work ...

The session opened with Pantula Rama exploring the evolution of Indian classical music and the eventual division into Carnatic and Hindustani traditions. She highlighted that, originally ...

Who knew? Filter the guitar tab down to just pop music, though, and Ed Sheeran is a clear winner, filling numbers 1, 2 and 4 in the chart with Perfect, Photograph and Thinking Out Loud. It’s a very ...

Five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen has taken a dig at Classical chess, calling it “more like science, art”, while saying the shorter form of chess is “pure sport”. After winning the 2021 ...