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npr.org | Leila Fadel |Olivia Hampton
Ia Sukhitashvili plays Nina, an obstetrician who performs abortions in rural Georgia, at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains in Dea Kulumbegashvili's film April. Arseni Khachaturan/Courtesy Metrograph Pictures hide caption toggle caption Arseni Khachaturan/Courtesy Metrograph Pictures Growing up in the shadow of the Caucasus Mountains in rural Georgia, Dea Kulumbegashvili was one of the few young women who didn't become a teenage bride and mom.
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npr.org | Olivia Hampton
A decade ago, Amy Sherald was still struggling to make her mark. But even before she was commissioned to paint former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait, she knew she'd have a major museum retrospective some day, and she came up with its title: American Sublime. That dream has now come true. This week, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York opened the first major survey of her work, after the traveling exhibit's first stop at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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1 month ago |
npr.org | Olivia Hampton
Painter Amy Sherald reimagines the 'American sublime' in new showAmy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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1 month ago |
npr.org | Michel Martin |Olivia Hampton
American harpist Ashley Jackson's latest album, Take Me to The Water, focuses on spirituals, featuring her arrangements of works by composers like Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Alice Coltrane. Evelyn Freja for NPR/Evelyn Freja for NPR hide caption toggle caption Evelyn Freja for NPR/Evelyn Freja for NPR Some of Ashley Jackson's earliest memories took place at church services she attended with her grandmother.
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2 months ago |
npr.org | Olivia Hampton
South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe pictured Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. Michael Zamora/NPR hide caption toggle caption Michael Zamora/NPR Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe's chants and throat singing in his new album Hymns of Bantu, out this month. It's just one of the many ways he makes alchemy out of blended Western and African traditions.
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Thomas Bangalter on how orchestrating brings him “closer to human heartbeats,” interviewed by @AMartinezLA, production magic @bgordemer. Album out @WarnerClassics
Thomas Bangalter, formerly of French electronic music duo Daft Punk, has released a classical music album: the score to a ballet titled Mythologies that draws on American minimalism and Baroque works. https://t.co/Gap3Dz7wpK
Such a delight working on this story with the legendary @SachaPfeiffer. Production 🪄 @bgordemer
Two musical worlds collide as jazz pianist @tepferdan finds inspiration, and room for improvisation, in J.S. Bach’s Two-Part Inventions. https://t.co/lhD9TUZ72e https://t.co/UcUwUESkN8
RT @NPR: Jazz pianist and composer Dan Tepfer has extracted the framework from J.S. Bach’s Two Part Inventions to guide new improvisations…
