The journey seemed to wind across oceans, through jungles – and into caves, perhaps akin to the cistern recordings that gave birth to the composer's concept of "deep listening" back in the 1980s.

Pink Martini casts its unique big-band lounge sound around the world on its crackling new album, with songs in Spanish, French, Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, Xhosa and more.

All through the generous, smart, funny show, carefully crafted yet emotionally authentic, with Marshall sang songs by Jacques Brel and made famous by Edith Piaf, living the songs, and letting us live them – and live her love affair with Paris – too.

Trump's victory has been described as a populist revolt. Yet Clinton won a majority of the popular vote.

The play imagines in detail Chapman's relationship with his wife and their religious milieu; his journey to New York, fraught with fury, confusion, and self-doubt; and finally the infamous murder itself.

The members of this adventurous quartet proved themselves masters of tonal variation, broad technique, and compositional creativity in a fascinating program that transformed and adapted Bach and Haydn and presented modern works that nod to the Baroque.

Rawlins is an engaging writer who obviously relishes digging out the meaty stories behind the songs he loves. His new book will delight anyone interested in music history or who loves early jazz.

Money and genius grants can't revive the hundreds of languages native to the Americas that have died out over the last few centuries.

This powerful little production of Shakespeare's depiction of one of the foulest sides of human nature makes the racial aspect of the tragedy ring resoundingly true, especially in today's climate of fear and prejudice.

A joyful, optimistic, brilliantly composed vision, Haydn's great oratorio jibed perfectly with Enlightenment philosophy, and went on to offer a couple of hours of comfort and relief as war darkened the start of the 19th century. Today, it continues to bring joy.