“In those days,” Aaron Copland once said of his early studies, “music was like the inside of a great building that shut out the street noises.” Later Copland was to do more than any other ...

In this world, the young Copland heard a lot of Yiddish popular music, which grew out of a tradition filled with improvisation—with songs for weddings, for somebody’s sick cow, for all kinds ...

Curtis plays Copland. Or, listening to the ‘Great American Symphony’ in fraught times. The Curtis orchestra concert was a ...

In a three-part landmark series, Stewart Copeland travels the world meeting composers, musicians, film-makers, DJs and scientists to ask the question, 'How does music work?' Stewart Copeland has ...

Shemekia Copeland, as my dad used to say, comes by it honestly. As the daughter of revered blues guitarist and singer Johnny ...

Whatever one thinks of his virtually unknown middle- and late-period music, Copland has to be admired for his steadfast independence and unwillingness to court popularity for its own sake.

Decades later, the group’s music remains incredibly popular, but fans shouldn’t get excited about another possible reunion. Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers–two of the members of The Police ...

Grammy-nominated blues singer Shemekia Copeland tackles serious subjects like racism, gun violence and climate change in her music. Copeland — the daughter of Texas blues legend Johnny “Clyde ...