Classical
Fostering Artistry at Home
Lorin Maazel, former leader of the New York Philharmonic, has built a private opera house and is staging chamber opera with a handpicked group of young artists from around the world.
David Sanborn
The saxophonist celebrates his R&B roots on "Here and Gone."
Talib Kweli
One of hip-hop's most reliably strong lyricists.
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Music
Thank goodness Anne-Sophie Mutter didn't mean it when she said she would retire when she turned 45. That would have been last June -- and the musical world, including the sellout crowd at the Washington Performing Arts Society's season opener at the Kennedy Center, would have missed a remarkable...
INDIANOLA, Miss. -- Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi Delta.
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