A U.S. Election Night Playlist
Music to fill the excruciating void between voting and results
Classical Music in the Enshittocene
Everything online is getting worse. Classical music won’t be spared.

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Music under authoritarians
Communist Dissonance
In the propaganda musical “The Wings of Songs,” the soundtrack betrays the real agenda.
Waiting Outside
An interview with Tatsiana Khomich on the detention of her sister, flutist and activist Maria Kalesnikava, in Belarusian solitary confinement
The Truth Was Out There
Olga Shkrygunova remembers her friend, the pianist and author Pavel Kushnir, who died during a hunger strike against Putin’s regime
“The world is a Joke. Promise me every time you say Trump you make a fart noise xxxxx.”
Thomas Adès following the election of Donald Trump in 2016
Money, money, money
Level Out, Level Down
If Arts Council England wants to bring classical music outside London, why is it cutting funding to the groups that are already there?
Ukraine
The Production of Light
Russian pianist Polina Osetinskaya on music and resistance under Putin’s regime
“I Don’t Know Why I’m Angry, I’m Angry, I’m Angry…”
Music therapist Nigel Osborne on his work with Ukrainian children
A Vigil to a Life
When Russia invaded Ukraine, harpsichordist Elizaveta Miller left her Moscow home behind
“You’re Afraid to Ask Your Friends How They Are”
The musicians of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine rebuild in Europe















