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Summer 2025
Features | August 6, 2025
Listening to the Rain, the Wind, and Each Other
Working in collaboration, Houston artists and activists hear both the dangers of climate change and a common call to action.
Summer 2025
Features | August 5, 2025
End Note: Carry On
In times of adversity—even when under attack—that’s what artists do.
Summer 2025
Features | July 15, 2025
How Fiddle Camp Freed Me
A violinist rediscovers music, and herself, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Spring 2025
Features | April 24, 2025
Early Music, Later On
In its fiftieth season, Music Before 1800 confronts existential questions.
Winter 2025
Features | April 1, 2025
Let Conscience Ring
An ambitious commissioning and presenting project generated not just music, but also empathy and searching questions.
Winter 2025
Features | February 4, 2025
Grandfathered In
David Harrington receives CMA’s Michael Jaffee Visionary Award.
Winter 2025
Features | February 4, 2025
Roscoe’s Big Picture
Roscoe Mitchell is the inaugural recipient of CMA’s Executive Award.
Winter 2025
Features | February 4, 2025
The Big (and Lasting) Bang
For nearly 40 years, Bang on a Can’s theory has been to alter what we listen to, where we hear it, and in what order.
Fall 2024
Features | November 7, 2024
Under Cecil’s Sun
Archie Rand writes about his mentor, Cecil Taylor.
Fall 2024
Features | November 7, 2024
All This Because I Talk So Well
Jason Moran writes about listening to Chuck D rap on an early hiphop hit in his family’s kitchen.
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