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To kick off the Musical Belongings series, two of the most important Indian musicians of our time will be performing in Berlin: violinist Kala Ramnath (also known as Singing Violin) and veena player Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh. The Musical Belongings. The Musical Belongings project is funded by the programme ‘Excellent Orchestral Landscape in Germany’ of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Bkm).

Kala Ramnath, known for fusion projects with Hilary Hahn, learned her unique singing style from Guru Pandit Jasraj. She comes from the North Indian Hindustani music tradition. Jayanthi Kumaresh, representative of the Carnatic music tradition of South India, plays and teaches the Saraswati Veena, the Indian lute.

The first concert project is thus a double encounter: not only European and Indian lute music, but also North and South Indian music meet here and show the whole variety of ragas, the many melodic basic structures of India’s traditional music.

12 May 2023 — Three-time Grammy® Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn has announced her latest album with Deutsche Grammophon: a recording of Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for Violin Solo, op. 27, to be released July 14 on CD, a 2-lp gatefold vinyl edition, and in digital formats including a Dolby Atmos version. Composed beginning in 1923, these six sonatas are among the supreme feats of technical virtuosity in the violin repertoire. Hahn’s interpretations, recorded last fall in the lead-up to this year’s centenary, see her come full circle as a direct musical descendant of Ysaÿe himself.

“Just as Eugène Ysaÿe was inspired by Bach to write these six sonatas—and in doing so set a crucial milestone in the evolution of the violin—so too am I inspired by Ysaÿe to continually grow as an artist, to pour all of myself into this music and to commit myself fully to the pieces appearing on this recording,...

Updated, with details on performances: Marking the return of the involvement of the White House in celebrating the Kennedy Center Honors, President Joe Biden taped a special message for the ceremony in which he said that the role of artists is “as important as ever” as the country recovers from the Covid-19 crisis.

In the video, Biden said that he and First Lady Jill Biden met at the White House with this year’s honorees “recognizing how art touches the soul of America.”

“n this year of profound loss and pain, of repair and renewal, the artists’ vision is as important as ever,” Biden said.

He added, “In the search for greater meaning in our lives, we have discovered and rediscovered the power of art in every form.”

CBS is airing the taped ceremony on Sunday at 8 Pm Et/Pt.

Biden met with the five Kennedy Center honorees — Joan Baez,...

The 2020 Kennedy Center Honors were delayed from their traditional December slot by five months to May. Producers recorded the tributes over several days for Debbie Allen, Joan Baez, Garth Brooks, Midori and Dick Van Dyke in and around the Washington, D.C. landmark for a ceremony to be broadcast this Sunday, June 6, on CBS.

Here is the complete list of performers and presenters to be seen on the two-hour program hosted by previous Kch recipient Gloria Estefan. While all performers were there in person to honor the entertainment careers of these icons, some presenters recorded their portions from other locations.

Debbie Allen:

Presenters are Paula Abdul, Phylicia Rashad, Shonda Rhimes, Tracee Ellis Ross

“Fame” performed by Ariana DeBose, Vanessa Hudgens, Vivian Nixon, Tiler Peck, Desmond Richardson, Anika Noni Rose

“I’m a Brass Band” performed by Ariana DeBose, Vivian Nixon

“Out Here on My Own” performed by Tiler Peck,...

Live From Here host Chris Thile kickstarted a new digital series called “Live From Home,” featuring self-recorded performances of musicians around the globe as they find ways to create and share music in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Like virtually every large-scale performance in the country, Live From Here‘s upcoming shows have been postponed.

“We’re inside and not out there making music,” Thile explains in the video, recording from a closet at his family’s house. “So we thought we’d make music in here.”

Thile chose...

The 57th Annual Grammy Awards winners have been chosen, and we have the full list of those musicians taking home statues this Sunday, Feb. 8.

Did you favorite artists and/or songs win?

Check out the Full list of winners, below.

Record of the Year: Sam Smith, Stay With Me

Song of the Year: "Stay With Me," Sam Smith

Album of the Year: Beck, Morning Phase

Best Country Album: Miranda Lambert, Platinum

Best R&B Performance: "Drunk in Love," Beyonce feat. Jay Z

Best Rock Album: Beck, Morning Phase

Best Pop Vocal Album: Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour

Best Pop Solo Performance: “Happy,” Pharrell Williams

Best New Artist: Sam Smith

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Max Martin for “Bang Bang,” “Break Free,” “Dark Horse,” “Problem,” “Shake It Off,” “Unconditionally”

Best Folk Album: Old Crow Medicine Show, Remedy

Best Americana Album: Rosanne Cash, The River and the Thread

Best American Roots Song: “A Feather’s Not a Bird...

Complete list of winners and nominees of the 2014 Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles at the Staples Center on Sunday February 8. Winners will be updated as they're announced during the telecast and pre-telecast. Record Of The Year “Fancy,” Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli Xcx “Chandelier,” Sia **Winner** “Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” Sam Smith “Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift “All About That Bass,” Meghan Trainor Album Of The Year **Winner** “Morning Phase,” Beck “Beyoncé,” Beyoncé “X,” Ed Sheeran “In The Lonely Hour,” Sam Smith “Girl,” Pharrell Williams Song Of The Year “All About That Bass,” Kevin Kadish & Meghan Trainor, songwriters (Meghan Trainor) “Chandelier,” Sia Furler & Jesse Shatkin, songwriters (Sia) “Shake It Off,” Max Martin, Shellback & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift) **Winner** “Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith, songwriters (Sam Smith) “Take Me To Church,” Andrew Hozier-Byrne, songwriter (Hozier) Best New Artist Iggy Azalea Bastille Brandy Clark...

Hopefully you've had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you're looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for, by medium, we'll be breaking them out separately. Here's a look at fall classical music and dance performances: September (Classical): 9/4Maya Beiser(Le) Poisson RougeThe fierce cellist plays “uncovers”—total reimaginings of classic-rock songs by the likes of Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, and more—arranged by Bang on a Can’s Evan Ziporyn. 9/16New York PhilharmonicSee nyphil.org for details, Avery Fisher HallThe season kicks off with a concert tribute to Italian cinema featuring Renée Fleming and Josh Groban. Also up this fall: The “Art of the Score” series continues with an exploration of Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times; Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts The Firebird; enthralling violinists Lisa Batiashvili and Hilary Hahn play Brahms and Korngold, respectively; and a series...

Boardwalk Empire, Season 4, Episode 5, “Erlkönig”

Written by Howard Korder

Directed by Tim Van Patten

Airs Sundays at 9pm Est on HBO

Kate is new to Boardwalk Empire this season and her reviews will approach the acclaimed series from the newbie’s perspective.

This week, on Boardwalk Empire: Gillian becomes desperate, Mueller moves up, and Eddie is taken by the Erlkönig

As many viewers will no doubt be aware, Der Erlkönig is a poem by Goethe based on Danish folklore that was adapted by the great (early) Romantic composer Franz Schubert into one of his most famous lieder, or art songs. To set the mood for the discussion of by far the best episode this season, so far:

Schubert’s “Erlkonig” tells the story of a father racing through the forest on horseback to get his young son home while the son shudders and cries out to his father about the spectral Erlkonig (trans.

Once again, it's time for the return of Videodrome, our semi-regular showcase for the best music videos around. Since the form has given the world game-changing helmers in both the blockbuster and arthouse realms, it's always important to keep an eye on promos, and indeed, one could argue that there's more invention to be found in the short form than there is in features. So, without further ado, the five best music videos we've seen in the last few weeks. As ever, any tips and suggestions are more than welcome. Hilary Hahn & Hauschka - "Draw A Map" (dir. Eric Epstein) Despite winning Best Indie/Rock Video at the U.K. Music Video Awards last year for his haunting clip for Memory Tapes, Eric Epstein, a NYC-based former motion graphics artist, has been slow to follow it up. But he's finally back for a brief clip for an instrumental track by...

Here's what I have to say to all the people who bemoan the state of classical music: My classical list is the last one I'm posting (as has often been the case) because there were so many great releases to listen to that I didn't finish until now.

I want to once again admit the biases operating in my best-of-the-year classical lists: I am most interested in the piano, choral, and symphonic literatures. I’m happy to listen to other things when they come my way, but those are what I seek out, vastly tipping the balance in their favor (tipping the balance against opera is the increasing disinclination of record companies to send promos for new opera recordings unless one specifically asks -- and even that is no guarantee). Also note: no reissues or compilations here. That disqualified even the first box-set appearance of David Zinman's fine Mahler cycle,...

In the latest Music in the movies column, we salute the work of James Newton Howard, the purveyor of themes for many of M. Night Shyamalan’s films…

An accomplished musician at a young age, James Newton Howard studied at the USC School of music, and after he graduated, began a career as a session musician, working with some of the biggest names in the business before embarking on a career as a composer for film and TV.

He composed the iconic score for the TV show ER, as well as scoring a wealth of memorable scores for movies over the years.

With the imminent release of The Last Airbender on Blu-ray and DVD, I thought now would be the ideal time to look at his work with the director M. Night Shyamalan, as well as two of my other favourites in his back catalogue…

Wyatt Earp

If I were...

Deutsche Grammophon & Decca are proud to present the best in new classical music recordings for the remainder of 2010. The mission of both labels is to record the best artists performing great music in superior quality recordings. The roster for this fall and winter includes music from Monteverdi up to the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning Violin Concerto by Jennifer Higdon (as performed by Hilary Hahn).

Bach on the organ? Of course. On the piano? Certainly. On the cello? Naturally. On the violin? Sure. But Bach on the banjo? The ukelele? The mandolin? How about the glass harp? Or the clarinet, the guitar, and the double bass. And let's not forget a cappella. You hear them all -- brilliantly filmed and recorded -- courtesy of Bach & friends, a gorgeous two-hour documentary by Michael R. Lawrence. The film, three years in the making, is not a stunt. It delivers musicianship of the highest order on every one of the instruments. We're talking Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Simone Dinerstein, Richard Stoltzman, the Emerson String Quartet, the Swingle Singers, Bobby McFerrin, and Matt Haimowitz. We're also talking Felix Hell (organ), Zuill Bailey (cello), Manuel Barrueco (guitar), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Chris Thile (mandolin), Bela Fleck (banjo), Jake Shimabukuro (ukelele),...

Former Led Zeppelin star Robert Plant and his new performance partner Alison Krauss were the toast of the 51st Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night after claiming a fistful of honours.The duo picked up awards for Album of The Year, Record of The Year, Best Pop Collaboration, Best Country Collaboration and Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.

Lil Wayne, who was the most nominated artist at this year's Grammys, took home three prizes and a share of the Best Rap Performance for a Duo or Group for Swagga Like Us with Jay-z, T.I. and Kanye West.

Coldplay were also triple winners, claiming Song of The Year, Best Rock Album and Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals.

Double winners included Metallica, Al Green, Daft Punk, gospel star Kirk Franklin, Brad Paisley and Peter Gabriel and composer Thomas Newman, who won honours for their work on the Wall-e soundtrack.

Neil Diamond, the Four Tops, Dean Martin and music mogul Clive Davis were among those honoured with special awards during the ceremony.

The night was a star-studded affair - with more performers than ever before hitting the stage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for the event.

Highlights included Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift's duet on the country star's 15, Jennifer Hudson's stirring rendition of Diane Warren's You Pulled Me Through - backed by a gospel choir, the Jonas Brothers' collaboration with Stevie Wonder, Coldplay's performance with rapper Jay-z and Lil Wayne and Robin Thicke's rousing tribute to New Orleans with Terence Blanchard and Allen Toussaint.

Rockers U2 kicked off the 51st Grammys with new song Get on Your Boots and heavily-pregnant M.I.A., who was due to give birth on Sunday, performed Paper Planes/Swagga Like Us with rappers Lil Wayne, Jay-z, T.I. and Kanye West.

Welcome to the very first edition of The Screening Log’s “Great Movie Moments” series, a selection of specific scenes that caught my attention and left a long-lasting impression on me. Most of the scenes you will see here are taken from flicks already released on DVD, but you may occasionally stumble across one from a current theatrical release.

For this first edition, I picked M. Night Shyamalan’s 2004 mystery “The Village.” Although it’s certainly not one of my favorite films, there’s one scene in the movie that really gave me the chills, not because it’s scary, but rather because of how beautifully it is set up, shot and edited.

In this scene, Joaqun Phoenix prevents Bryce Dallas Howard from being attacked by one of these creatures the villagers are so afraid of. The camera angles in this scene really work for me, and Hilary Hahn’s...

Oscar nominee Nicolas Cage is upset with reports he's dating a 23-year-old violinist, and planning to take her to the Academy Awards on Sunday. A British tabloid reported the romance with Hilary Hahn, but Cage is insistent he'll be attending the Oscars alone on Sunday. And he's also keen to point out that he isn't dating the violinist. He says, "Hilary is a friend of mine. I have tremendous respect for her as an artist, however there is no romantic involvement between us." Cage is nominated for his dual role as screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his brother Donald in the film Adaptation.

Newly single Oscar nominee Nicolas Cage is searching for the perfect date for Sunday's ceremony - but keeps getting turned down. The Adaptation Best Actor contender was hoping to persuade sexy violinist Hilary Hahn to accompany him to the star studded bash but her parent's had other ideas. They decided that the 16-year age gap between their 23-year old daughter and 39-year old Cage was too big and convinced Hilary that she should politely decline. However, the superstar - who split with wife Lisa Marie Presley after only five months of marriage - remains optimistic. An aide says, "Nic's got a few irons on the fire for his date on the big night."...