Musicians, performers, song and sound creation.
A Philadelphia performance of the drinking song from La Traviata transformed a market into a stage and invited accidental listeners into opera.
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European Opera Day opened theaters and public spaces to new listeners, revealing opera as a collective craft rather than a distant luxury.
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David Gates shaped the sound of Bread with intimate melodies, transparent arrangements, and songs whose emotional restraint still resonates.
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Roberto Cantoral wrote boleros and ballads whose precise melodies gave enduring form to longing, separation, and romantic memory.
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Yma Sumac carried a remarkable vocal range and a theatrical vision of Andean music from Peru to international stages and cinema.
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George David Weiss united formal musical training and popular instinct in songs that crossed genres, performers, and generations.
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The Peruvian Scissors Dance and the Huaconada of Mito unite music, disciplined movement, ritual authority and intergenerational knowledge within living communities.
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Stan Getz joined melodic clarity, rhythmic ease, and improvisational daring in one of the most recognizable sounds in jazz.
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The life, recordings and legacy of Paco de Lucía, the guitarist who transformed flamenco through technique, collaboration and fearless musical exchange.
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The life, recordings, films and legacy of Elvis Presley, the performer whose voice and movement transformed rock and roll and popular culture.
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The life, recordings and collaborations of Sean Ono Lennon, the musician who transformed a famous family inheritance into an experimental language of his own.
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The Cartagena childhood, bands, original Caribbean fusion, major songs and legacy of Joe Arroyo, the Colombian singer and composer behind Rebelion.
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The Liverpool childhood, drumming style, Beatles recordings, solo career and legacy of Ringo Starr, whose musical economy helped define the sound of a historic band.
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The Chilean origins, exile, instruments, major albums and enduring legacy of Los Jaivas, whose music created an original encounter between rock and Andean traditions.
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The creation, musical character, key songs and cultural legacy of guarania, the Paraguayan genre developed by Jose Asuncion Flores in the 1920s.
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The musical career, solid-body experiments, multitrack recording and legacy of Les Paul, the guitarist-inventor who changed how records are performed and built.
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The musical formation, explosive piano style, rock-and-roll hits, country comeback and serious personal controversies of Jerry Lee Lewis.
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The early online career, fingerstyle technique, arrangements, recordings and influence of South Korean guitarist Sungha Jung.
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The training, Verdi and Puccini repertory, Metropolitan Opera breakthrough and legacy of Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra, who died at the age of 43.
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The life, piano revolution, compositions, teaching and legacy of Franz Liszt, the Hungarian musician who transformed both concert culture and musical form.
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The origins, media expansion and cultural consequences of Beatlemania, the mass phenomenon that carried the Beatles from Liverpool to worldwide fame.
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The production, musical structure, rivalry and legacy of The Cat Concerto, the 1947 Tom and Jerry short that turned a Liszt rhapsody into animated comedy.
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The life, repertoire, international career and legacy of Amalia Rodrigues, the Portuguese singer whose dramatic phrasing transformed the global reach of fado.
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The 1913 origin, Andean sources, international adaptations and cultural legacy of El Condor Pasa by Peruvian composer Daniel Alomia Robles.
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The story of the January 30, 1969 rooftop concert at Apple Corps, when The Beatles turned a practical solution into an enduring cultural image.
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The life, works, deafness and legacy of Ludwig van Beethoven, whose symphonies, sonatas and quartets transformed Western musical expression.
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The life, performances and legacy of Joe Cocker, the British singer whose raw voice transformed classics of rock, soul and blues.
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The career of Priscila Navarro, a Peruvian pianist whose training, competitions, concerts and teaching have built an international classical profile.
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The story and musical construction of the Som Sabadell flashmob, in which orchestra and choirs transformed a public square with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
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The life, style and legacy of Óscar Avilés, the guitarist, singer and arranger who helped define the modern sound of Peruvian música criolla.
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A profile of physicist John C. Howell, his work in quantum optics and the accessible optical-cloaking experiments that reveal how light and vision operate.
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The life, major operas and legacy of Giuseppe Verdi, the Italian composer who joined unforgettable melody with profound theatrical and human insight.
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The life, achievements and legacy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Classical composer who transformed opera, symphony, chamber music and the piano concerto.
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The life, recordings and legacy of Louis Armstrong, the trumpeter and singer who placed individual improvisation at the creative heart of jazz.
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The life, technique and legacy of Raúl García Zárate, the Peruvian master who carried Andean guitar traditions from Ayacucho to international audiences.
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The life, vocal technique and legacy of Nino Bravo, the Spanish singer whose Libre, Un beso y una flor and Noelia outlived a tragically brief career.
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The life, sound and evolving legacy of Carlos Santana, the Mexican-American guitarist who fused blues, rock and Afro-Latin rhythm.
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The life and legacy of Máximo Damián Huamaní, the Peruvian violinist who carried Ayacucho musical traditions from communal celebrations to world stages.
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The life, collaborations and legacy of Lucho González, the Peruvian-Argentine guitarist who connected coastal Peruvian music with a wider Latin American sound.
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The career and projects of Peruvian composer and multi-instrumentalist Lucho Quequezana, who creates dialogue among regional traditions and contemporary audiences.
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The life, recordings and legacy of Whitney Houston, whose gospel formation, technical control and emotional power reshaped modern popular singing.
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The life, operas and legacy of Gioachino Rossini, whose rhythmic energy transformed comic opera and reached heroic scale in William Tell.
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The life, compositions and legacy of George Harrison, the Beatles guitarist whose solo work joined melodic restraint, Indian music and spiritual inquiry.
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The life and legacy of Jim Marshall, the drummer, teacher and entrepreneur whose British amplifiers transformed electric-guitar sound and stage culture.
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The life and legacy of Carlos Hayre, the guitarist, bassist, composer and arranger who expanded the harmonic language of Peruvian coastal music.
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The history of Magical Mystery Tour, the 1967 film and musical project in which The Beatles combined travel, comedy, improvisation and psychedelia.
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The history, voices and legacy of Mocedades, the Basque vocal group that carried Eres tú from Eurovision to audiences around the world.
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The life, songs and legacy of Lucha Reyes, the Golden Black Woman of Peru whose powerful voice transformed hardship into criollo musical expression.
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The life, style and legacy of B. B. King, whose voice, vibrato and conversation with Lucille carried Mississippi blues to audiences around the world.
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