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Daniel Warren Johnson's (<em>Murder Falcon</em>, <em>Extremity</em>) illustration for Viking's Choice gets a festive update.

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  • Music News

Stream 8 hours of yuletide music with the Viking's Choice Holiday Special

Join Lars Gotrich, NPR's resident Viking, for an eight-hour holiday music marathon on Dec. 23. Let's make the yuletide weird.

December 10, 2021
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  • Lars Gotrich

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  • Music News

Let's talk about the best new artists & breakthroughs of 2021

Join an online listening party featuring the NPR Music staff in a conversation about the artists who shaped 2021.

December 10, 2021
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By:
  • Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis and
  • Lars Gotrich
Iphigenia, played by esperanza spalding, prepares for her sacrifice. From Wayne Shorter and spalding's opera, <em>...(Iphigenia)</em>.

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  • Music Features

Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding crack open the old world in new opera

The pair took a close look at the subtexts of Euripides' sad, epic tale of Iphigenia — agency, testosterone, violence, faith — and, through a suite of new music, hold them up to the light.

December 10, 2021
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  • Nate Chinen
The 2021 Kennedy Center honorees: (left to right) opera star Justino Díaz, <em>Saturday Night Live </em>creator Lorne Michaels, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, entertainer Bette Midler and Motown founder Berry Gordy.<em></em>

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  • Arts & Life

Kennedy Center honors creative excellence in the arts at annual gala

Motown founder Berry Gordy, opera star Justino Díaz, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, entertainer Bette Midler and television impresario Lorne Michaels were among those celebrated this weekend.

December 06, 2021
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Olga Neuwirth

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  • Arts & Life

Olga Neuwirth's bold gender-bending opera has won the Grawemeyer Award

Neuwirth, an Austrian composer and multimedia artist known for works of elemental power, was honored for her opera 'Orlando,' produced by the Vienna State Opera in 2019.

December 06, 2021
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  • Steve Smith
Two separate groups of fans from the Philippines take a photo together before the BTS concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., on Nov. 27.

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  • Arts & Life

BTS returns to the stage reuniting their ARMY of fans after a 2-year hiatus

Fans from across the country and the world came to see the Korean boy band perform in Los Angeles for their first live concert in two years. Photographer Hannah Yoon documented fans before the show.

December 04, 2021
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  • Hannah Yoon
Jackson Laird

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  • Music News

Columbus teen wins top prize in national competition for electronic music competition

Jackson Laird, 13, finished first in the grades K-8 category of the National Association for Music Education 2021 electronic music composition competition, which he entered in March as an eighth grader.

December 02, 2021
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  • Associated Press
From music made from brain waves to gamelan instruments reworked for amplifiers and loudspeakers, Alvin Lucier rewired how we heard sound.

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  • Obituaries

Alvin Lucier, inquisitive and innovative composer, has died at 90

Lucier changed the way we think about sound through monumental works like I Am Sitting in a Room and Music on a Long Thin Wire.

December 01, 2021
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  • Lars Gotrich
Joanne Shenandoah in 2020 at Hart's Falls Preserve, near the Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Studies, an organization run by Shenandoah and her husband, Doug George-Kanentiio, in Hermon, N.Y.

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  • Obituaries

Musician Joanne Shenandoah, a powerful voice for Native culture, dies at 64

A singer and composer whose songs bridged Native and numerous mainstream styles, Shenandoah was driven to create, and to share her history, with audiences around the world.

November 27, 2021
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  • Marisa Arbona-Ruiz
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim in New York in 1976. Sondheim died on Friday at age 91.

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  • Music

Stephen Sondheim, the Broadway legend, has died at 91

The celebrated composer-songwriter died on Friday. He had won several Tonys and Grammys, as well as an Oscar and Pulitzer, for musicals including West Side Story and Company.

November 27, 2021
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  • Jeff Lunden
Jon Batiste, shown performing at Global Citizen Live: New York earlier this year, was nominated for 11 Grammy Awards.

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  • Music News

Jon Batiste, Justin Bieber and Billie Eilish headline 2022 Grammy nominations

Pianist and composer Jon Batiste was nominated in 11 categories, including Album of the Year. Read the full list of 2022 nominees.

November 23, 2021
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas and
  • LaTesha Harris
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  • Music News

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are back with 'Raise the Roof'

In 2007, legendary Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, a star of bluegrass and Americana music, released their first album: Raising Sand. Their new album is called Raise the Roof.

November 22, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
"We don't create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason," Adele tweeted on Saturday.

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  • Music News

Adele asked Spotify to remove the default shuffle button for albums, and they obliged

The singer believes "our stories should be listened to as we intended." She requested the change for the release of her new album, 30, and Spotify replied with a tweet reading, "Anything for you."

November 21, 2021
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  • Hazel Cills
Photographer Mick Rock at the opening reception for <em>Mick Rock: Shooting For Stardust - The Rise Of David Bowie & Co.</em> in Los Angeles in 2015.

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  • Obituaries

Rock is dead, but the photographer's iconic images of Bowie, Blondie and more live on

Mick Rock, iconic photographer of rock stars, has died. He was known for his images of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Queen and Blondie. He was 72.

November 19, 2021
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  • Elizabeth Blair
The Memphis Police Department attained surveillance video showing two armed suspects getting out of a white two-door Mercedes Benz and approaching rapper Young Dolph while he was inside Makeda's Cookies.

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  • Music

Memphis police release photos of 2 suspects wanted over Young Dolph's shooting death

The images show two suspects getting out of a Mercedes armed with guns and wearing sweatshirts, then approaching the rapper, police said.

November 19, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin
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