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Animals are fun to pet. They also make great guest appearances in music.

Know your bird calls from barnyard bellowing? For Earth Day, test your ear at recognizing the animal sounds songwriters and composers work into their music, from funk classics to classical sonatas.

Roscoe Mitchell is one of six jazz musicians awarded the Doris Duke Artist Award for 2014.

13 Jazz Artists Awarded Over $1.7 Million

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced recipients of its 2014 performing arts grants. Noted composers such as Roscoe Mitchell, Oliver Lake and Randy Weston received a first tier award.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Spano takes Benjamin Britten's massive and moving <em>War Requiem</em> to Carnegie Hall. Britten, a staunch pacifist, wrote the piece in 1961 for the re-consecration of England's 14th-century Coventry Cathedral after it was bombed in World War II.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall

Conductor Robert Spano leads the orchestra and chorus in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, music written for the 1962 rededication of the cathedral in Coventry, England, destroyed in a 1940 air raid.

Vijay Iyer On Q2 Music's 'Spaces'

Take a tour of the MacArthur genius's home in Harlem, including a look at his Steinway, favorite books and percussion instruments from India.

Evidently, pianist Kris Bowers' bookshelf includes James Baldwin's uncollected writings and Robin Kelley's biography of Thelonious Monk.

The History Of Jazz Piano In 11 Minutes

Even today's musicians know that jazz has a rapidly changing, living, breathing history. In a new video, young gun Kris Bowers takes a YouTube tour from ragtime and stride through the present day.

Angst And Excellence In Forgotten Soviet Symphonies

A newly reissued set of symphonies from the decades after World War II recovers a gifted yet neglected composer, Vadim Salmanov. These live recordings burn with intensity and sorrow.

Maria Callas at home in her Milan Apartment, in 1958. One of 85,000 archive films British Pathé has uploaded to YouTube.

A Trove Of Celluloid, Primed For The Public

From Queen Victoria's funeral to a tour of Maria Callas' Paris apartment, a British newsreel archive has just uploaded 85,000 historic films to YouTube. Watch a few of our favorite music clips.

Valentina Lisitsa's new album, <em>Chasing Pianos,</em> features music from Michael Nyman's score to the 1993 film <em>The Piano</em>.

Valentina Lisitsa: Chasing Pianos And YouTube Fans

The Ukrainian-born pianist revived her stalled career by uploading videos of herself to YouTube. After millions clicked, she landed a record deal. Her new album features film music by Michael Nyman.

Izzat Majeed address a crowd in New York during a collaborative concert between Sachal Studios musicians and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The Lahore-born philanthropist founded a recording studio and provided opportunities for musicians in Pakistan.

A Millionaire Saves The Silenced Symphonies Of Pakistan

Once upon a time, Lahore was home to a booming film industry and studio musicians to match. Now, the sounds of Lollywood have made a comeback, thanks to a jazz fan — who's also a philanthropist.

Jazz singer René Marie's latest release is <em>I Wanna Be Evil: With Love to Eartha Kitt</em>.

René Marie On Singing, Sex And The Importance Of Being Eartha

Performing Eartha Kitt's music, the jazz singer says, isn't just hero worship: It's a window into how power, seduction and vulnerability intertwine.

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