It's a week of chart milestones, as holiday songs hold down the top 24 spots on the Billboard Hot 100, Mariah Carey extends ...

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The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...

But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

Mariah Carey extended her Billboard Hot 100 record for most weeks at No. 1 with "All I Want for Christmas Is You" at 22 weeks.

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Minnesota Orchestra’s “Turandot,” Dmitry Sinkovsky with the SPCO and Joshua Bell at the Minnesota Beethoven Festival were ...

And while Mannheim sounds like the name of a German heavy equipment apparatus, it is actually the nom de plume of Chip Davis, an Omaha-based composer/producer who has been churning out neoclassical ...

12 PM| Welcome Christmas Welcome Christmas is a perennial Christmas favorite from VocalEssence, one of the world's premier choral ensembles, conducted by Philip Brunelle and G. Phillip Shoultz. Join ...

A decade later, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her own version in 1960, further cementing the song’s place in the popular ...

Jazz versions of holiday classics can bring up these feelings even with no singer, though perhaps start with Ella Fitzgerald’s classic album “Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.” Other sweet as ...

Accessible, eclectic, listener-friendly but strikingly free of cynical sentimentality, this is an Oratorio devised by a staunchly committed (Roman Catholic) believer rather than one of the ...