As we head towards the finale of 2025, I’ve been thinking a lot about all of the great new artists I’ve discovered since January. While I think this year has been a particularly great one for ...

Jasmine Cruickshank—the Manc singer-songwriter who makes music under the name jasmine.4.t—celebrated becoming the first British artist signed to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records label last ...

Kathryn Tickell presents a specially-recorded live session featuring Armenian duduk virtuoso Arsen Petrosyan alongside Adib Rostami on kamancheh and Mehdi Rostami on setar. Show more Kathryn Tickell ...

Also: Graciela Iturbide’s tranquil photographs of Mexico, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in “Song Sung Blue,” the coke-rap of Clipse, and more. Also: Alvin Ailey’s annual City Center residency, the ...

Make yourself at ease with Japanese through this series of lessons. Tune in each week for a 10-minute episode or look for it online. Across 48 weeks, you'll learn the basic of the language and be ...

Also: Alvin Ailey’s annual City Center residency, the D.I.Y. virtuoso Jay Som, Alexandra Schwartz’s Shakespeare-movie picks, and more. Also: the kamancheh playing of Kayhan Kalhor, Ethan Lipton’s ...

TEHRAN -- On December 4, 2024, the traditional craft and performance of the rubab—one of the oldest plucked instruments of the Iranian cultural sphere—was officially inscribed on UNESCO’s ...

Dmitri Shostakovich has written 1 shows including Black Sea Follies (Composer).