New Coeur De Pirate, Frank Martin hopes for peace, and 4-hand Schubert

Baroque trios with Chinese mouth organ, a new Medea, and Aya Nakamura

Orville Peck tries on some new voices, FKA twigs leaves the club, and Jean Rondeau gets me to actually care about Couperin

Charli XCX gets weird. So does Marc-André Hamelin.

The Velvet Underground legend links Charli XCX’s club rat vibe to the world of John Cage and Terry Riley

Canada’s politicians should look at how anti-DEI attacks have been used to undermine research funding and academic freedom in the US

Is it pop? Is it classical? Does it matter?