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Press play on any gray audio player to hear samples of microtonal compositions. Imagine drawing a sweeping landscape — Chicago’s lovely skyline, say, or maybe a sunset — but you’re stuck using crayons ...

Epiphanies come, as epiphanies do, in unexpected and often far-flung settings. For trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, three such horizon-openers converge in his latest album, New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez ...

New England Conservatory is mourning the death of Joseph Gabriel Esther Maneri, a longtime and much beloved faculty member and legendary jazz figure, who died August 24 at age 82. Maneri, who taught ...