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A Brooklyn Basketball Court Is Named After Notorious B.I.G.
Previous attempts to honor the rapper were stymied by community board members who took offense to Biggie’s lyrics, criminal history and even his weight
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Christylez Bacon on Finding His Voice through Music
The Grammy-nominated artist takes inspiration from weaving together seemingly disparate musical forms
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Lost Manuscripts From Composer of “The Planets” Found in New Zealand
No one is sure how the handwritten scores by Gustav Holst ended up in the archives of the Bay of Plenty Symphonia
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Sony Will Start Pressing Vinyl Records After a 28-Year Hiatus
The company stopped producing vinyl records in 1989
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Step Right Up to the Big Top Circus Tent at the 50th Annual Folklife Festival
The day the circus rolled into Washington, D.C., and other tales from the Smithsonian’s hot summer party on the National Mall
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Why This Composer Made Melodies Out of Mountainsides
This forgotten Armenian musicologist literally drew the landscapes into his folksong scores
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Choreographer Bob Fosse Is the Forgotten Author of Modern Musicals
Fosse’s signature style influenced everything from Michael Jackson to today’s musicals
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Offensive Terms Are No Longer Exempt From Trademark Protection
A Supreme Court ruling affirms a reclaimed slur
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The Long and Winding Road of Yoko Ono’s Art
A Hirshhorn exhibition of four works opens the same week Ono is credited, 46 years later, as a co-writer of the chart-topping ballad “Imagine.”
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The Musical Legacy Behind the Tupac Biopic ‘All Eyez on Me’
Curator Dwandalyn Reece from the Smithsonian’s African American Museum investigates
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iForest at The Wild Center combines an immersive sound experience with the lush beauty of the Adirondacks
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Dylan Finally Delivers on Nobel Prize Lecture
The reclusive singer-songwriter muses on literature and music in characteristic style
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Why Does Every American Graduation Play ‘Pomp and Circumstance’?
The song was written for a British king’s coronation and its name is a Shakespeare reference. What gives?
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The First Artificial Skating Rinks Looked Pretty But Smelled Terrible
Before the technology to reliably freeze water existed, the first rinks used pig fat and salts
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This Catalan Folk Singer Refused to Bow to Oppression
The director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage recognizes the lifetime work of the singer activist Raimon
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The MP3 Format is Music History’s Latest Casualty
The Institute that licenses MP3 tech recently stopped, but the format that began the digital music era may live on indefinitely
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Listen to This First 1920s Recording By One of the Kings of Jazz
Sidney Bechet was one of the first big jazz soloists, and brought the soprano saxophone into the jazz fold
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Songwriter Irving Berlin’s Interfaith Marriage Caused 1920s Gossip
The songwriter made headlines when he and writer Ellin Mackay got married against her millionaire father’s wishes
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Study Challenges the Supremacy of Stradivarius Violins
A French researcher set out to solve a long-standing fiddle riddle: do these infamous violins project sound better than new ones?
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The Eurovision Song Contest Rocks Europe This Week. Here’s How It All Got Started
It was the idea of the European Broadcasting Union, who wanted to put the relatively new technology of television through its paces
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