Music & Culture

Music & Culture

Pianist Jason Moran reaches for 'the drama, the comedy and the tragedy' of music

12:54pm November 23, 2023

by Terry Gross

Moran plays from his latest recording, which borrows from the music of James Reese Europe, the composer who led the Harlem Hellfighters regiment band during WWI. Originally broadcast Aug. 7, 2023.

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Remembering Miles Hoffman with a 'Musical Turkeys' commentary from 2004

6:56am November 23, 2023

Morning Edition remembers Classical Music Commentator Miles Hoffman by replaying one of his Thanksgiving commentaries. Hoffman died earlier this year of leukemia. He was 71.

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Taylor Swift reacts during a game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri on October 22, 2023.

A Thanksgiving guest's guide to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

5:00am November 23, 2023

by Emily Olson

Don't be the only one at the table who's behind on the season's hottest romance plot.

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Jazz band the EarRegulars stop in for live music and conversation

1:49pm November 22, 2023

by Sam Briger

Trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso and guitarist Matt Munisteri, founding members of the NY band The EarRegulars, play tunes from their new album, Live at the Ear Inn.

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Members of the Bengaluru Solidarity Group in Support of the Bhopal Struggle take part in a candlelight vigil to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster in Bangalore on December 2, 2014.

The world's worst industrial disaster harmed people even before they were born

9:28am November 22, 2023

by Rhitu Chatterjee

The 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India, killed thousands. New research finds babies born to mothers who were pregnant at the time have suffered long-term impacts worse than those directly exposed.

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William Prince performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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William Prince: Tiny Desk Concert

7:30am November 22, 2023

by Lars Gotrich

The singer-songwriter performs songs that swoon at the wonders of love, but also deep partnership.

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28 years after his death, Compton is honoring legendary rapper Eazy-E

7:22am November 22, 2023

Eazy, whose real name Eric Wright, was a native of the California city and propelled West Coast rap into the spotlight as a member of NWA. A block of Auto Drive will be named after him.

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Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein and and Carey Mulligan as Felicia Montealegre in Maestro.

'Maestro' chronicles the brilliant Bernstein — and his disorderly conduct

6:39am November 22, 2023

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Actors Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan give warm, deeply sympathetic performances as wide-ranging musician Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre Cohn, in a biopic directed by Cooper.

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In Leo Adam Sandler voices a 74-year-old lizard who learns he has a gift for helping kids sort through their problems.

'Leo' is an animated lizard with an SNL sensibility — and the voice of Adam Sandler

4:35pm November 21, 2023

by Elizabeth Blair

If the pets in a 5th grade classroom could talk, what would they say? That's the premise of Leo, the new coming-of-age movie musical from Netflix.

Taylor Swift fans wait for the doors of Nilton Santos Olympic stadium to open for her Eras Tour concert amid a heat wave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. A 23-year-old Taylor Swift fan died Friday night after suffering from cardiac arrest due to heat at the concert, according to a statement from the show's organizers in Brazil.

A fan died of heat at a Taylor Swift concert. It's a rising risk with climate change

4:10pm November 21, 2023

by Alejandra Borunda

The concert in Rio de Janeiro took place during one of the worst heat waves ever in Brazil. The country is in the middle of a record-breaking six months of extreme weather.