August Wilson at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Co., 2004. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc hide caption
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Students rehearse outdoors at The Roots of Music. The education nonprofit has kept its marching band going throughout the pandemic and resumed in-person rehearsal over the summer. Phoebe Jones hide caption
In New Orleans, Music Education Programs Cautiously Fall Back In Step
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In New Orleans, Music Education Programs Cautiously Fall Back In Step
A toy reindeer is shown on a white background. Radio stations, looking to boost ratings and provide comfort in a pandemic-marred year, started playing songs as early as July. And listeners loved it. mattjeacock/Getty Images hide caption
In Pandemic, The Most Wonderful Time For Christmas Songs Turned Out To Be ... In July
Maren Morris, Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby and Amanda Shires of The Highwomen. Erika Goldring/Getty Images hide caption
José Feliciano's bilingual Christmas song, "Feliz Navidad," celebrates 50 years. TK hide caption
50 Years Later, 'Feliz Navidad' Still Delivers On Its Bilingual Message
Country music legend Charley Pride died on Saturday at age 86 from complications of COVID-19. Pride, who gave his final performance last month at the CMA Awards in Nashville, Tenn., was the first Black performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for CMA hide caption
British musician FKA twigs, arriving at the Grammy Awards in Jan. 2020. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Composer John Luther Adams wrote his memoir, Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska, based on the decades he spent living and working in the Arctic. Pete Woodhead/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Composer John Luther Adams On The Arctic Sounds That Shaped His Work
The Harvard Opportunes is one of the four groups to advance to the final stages of UpStaged National Collegiate Performing Arts A Cappella Championship. Dylan Zhou /Twins Talent Casting hide caption
From left to right: Megan Thee Stallion, Bad Bunny, Mickey Guyton, Christine and the Queens, Cardi B. Courtesy of the artists hide caption
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in 1965, when he was at the epicenter of the counterculture. Evening Standard/Getty Images hide caption
Four nights onstage in Berlin in 2018 are the subject of Nils Frahm's new concert film and soundtrack album, Tripping With Nils Frahm. Thomas Lallier/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
'Tripping With Nils Frahm': 4 Sweaty Berlin Nights Captured Onscreen
Robbie Basho helped pioneer the American Primitive style of guitar playing. Now his personal recordings — long thought lost — are being released for the first time. Jeff Dooley/Tompkins Square Records hide caption
'Song Of The Avatars' Resurrects Guitarist Robbie Basho's Lost Recordings
Billie Holiday performs in New York City in 1947. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption
New Documentary 'Billie' Explores Mysteries Of Billie Holiday And Her Biographer
The quartet James Farm (pianist Aaron Parks, saxophonist Joshua Redman, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Eric Harland), playing at New York City's Jazz Standard in 2011. Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images hide caption
Bad Bunny, whose new album, El Último Tour del Mundo, was released Friday. Kevin Winter/BBMA2020/Getty Images for dcp hide caption