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Rhiannon Giddens

Kazem Abdullah -- Courtesy of artist

5 Questions to Kazem Abdullah (conductor)

As a conductor who can often be found in the pit of an opera house, many hours of Kazem Abdullah’s l...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
The Black Opera Porject creative team: Kevin Day, Tifara Brown, and Kimille Howard

The Black Opera Project Reminds Us That Opera is a Tool to Tell New Stories

In July 2022, I reviewed Fierce for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. The commission by Cincinnati Opera feature...
Author
A. Kori Hill
Rhiannon Giddens, Will Liverman, Karen Slack, and Reginald Mobley in Shawn Okpebholo's

From African Diaspora, New Song Cycle by Shawn Okpebholo Takes Flight

Quiet as it’s kept, the banjo is an instrument of the African diaspora. In a performance at the Metr...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
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Editor’s Picks: 2022 New Music Albums

For me, 2022 was a paradoxical year filled with confusing contradictions. I attended significantly m...
Author
Amanda Cook
LA Opera presents Omar--Photo by Cory Weaver

“Omar” Connects Music of the Muslim and Black Diasporas at LA Opera

Before and during the American Civil War, anti-literacy laws suppressed many of the individual stori...
Author
Dalanie Harris
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Three Projects Play to See — What is America to Me?

“History doesn’t repeat itself; but it does often rhyme.” Imma need to disagree with whomever said t...
Author
A. Kori Hill
Rhiannon Giddens (Photo by Ebru Yildiz) and Michael Abels (Photo by Eric Schwabel)

5 Questions to Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels about Omar

As a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and through her current career as a singer-song...
Author
A. Kori Hill
Jonathan Hulting-Cohen

ListN Up: Jonathan Hulting-Cohen (January 21, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Lara Downes--Photo by Jiyang Chen

5 Questions to Lara Downes (Host, AMPLIFY with Lara Downes)

Lara Downes is a multifaceted pianist whose prolific output routinely explores American music’s many...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Annika Socolofsky--Photo by Nadine Dyskant-Miller

ListN Up: Annika Socolofsky (November 6, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Kronos Quartet (photo: Jay Blakesberg)

This week: concerts in New York (February 5, 2018 – February 11, 2018)

Kronos Quartet & Face the Music | Ecstatic Music Festival The Kronos Quartet joins NYC’s youth n...
Author
Sam Reising

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