Over the past week, users of TikTok began absorbing, in a "challenge," one artist's musical investigation into the realities of living through a degenerative neurological disorder. @kadanharne and @quinfinity/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
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The saxophonist, flutist and composer Henry Threadgill, one of the NEA's 2021 Jazz Masters. Nhumi Threadgill/Courtesy of the NEA hide caption
Jason Flom is the CEO of Lava Records, a board member of The Innocence Project and host of the podcast Wrongful Conviction. Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival hide caption
Esteemed jazz musician Toshinori Kondo playing the trumpet. Peter Gannushkin hide caption
Social Music In An Age Of Social Distancing
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Social Music In An Age Of Social Distancing
Clint Mansell is the Grammy-nominated composer whose work on Requiem for a Dream jumpstarted a prolific and distinctive score career. Mike Palmer/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Requiem For A Theme: Film Composer Clint Mansell On The Sound Of Sadness
Before recording Cuttin' Grass Vol. 1, Sturgill Simpson (seated at center with guitar) assembled an all-star crew of bluegrass players to help him reimagine songs selected from across his own acclaimed — and genre-defying — albums. Semi Song/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Demi Lovato performs "Commander in Chief" during the Billboard Music Awards, broadcast on Oct. 14 from Los Angeles. NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images hide caption
The New York Philharmonic and its music director, Jaap van Zweden. Chris Lee/Courtesy of the New York Philharmonic hide caption
Jack White, performing "Lazaretto" on Saturday Night Live. YouTube Screenshot by NPR hide caption
The performing arts remain in economic peril as Broadway extends closures until May due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Cindy Ord/Getty Images hide caption
Jack White performs during the 2014 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. This week, he will perform as SNL's musical guest. Jason Merritt/Getty Images hide caption
Rapper Tory Lanez, performing in Newark, N.J. in Sept. 2019. Manny Carabel/Getty Images hide caption
Mohammad Reza Shajarian, onstage in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2008. The singer died Thursday in Tehran. Heinz Ruckemann/UPI /Landov hide caption
Singer Johnny Nash records in a New York City studio, circa 1958. PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption
Great Scott was a popular hangout for students at Boston College for many years. Jesse Haley hide caption
Silvio Rodríguez's latest album is called Para la espera. Gabriel Guerra Bianchini hide caption