Nine Musicians Discuss Chronic Illnesses

These nine musicians prove that musical life isn't always as glamorous as it seems. Listen to their stories about the realities of playing music while struggling with chronic illnesses ranging from Kidney Failure to Multiple Sclerosis.  read more

Cultured Clash: Osvaldo Golijov's Music of the Future

For most of the past half century, the artistic tag “international”—and the “ism” that labeled it a cultural trend—held a vaguely unpleasant connotation. It began cosmopolitan and cool, but then the concept started to drift, eventually landing on the universal yet impersonal, the utopian yet faceless. In architecture, for example, at the tail-end of the International Style movement in the 1960s and ’70s, every city in the U.S. and Brazil and China suffered its cookie-cutter modern office buildings, the ugly fact of “internationalism” made real. Still, a few groovy jet-set buildings turned heads; those old promises continued to hold a...  read more