Black Music and Black Muses

Thursday highlights about a classical piece or composer along with Saturday classical picks for a beautiful start to your weekend.

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Riffs on music and culture, improvised and otherwise, from critic Nate Chinen

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A newsletter on multimodality, creativity, and the wonder of small things. From Annika's lens as a Black queer writer, designer, and social media technologist.

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