Tennis’ star player is usually busy on the base line of the tennis court. But now, Novak Djokovic has been helping a Bizet bass line, on a viola! This summer, as he progressed in pursuit of an eighth ...

Not the least of this album's attractions is the title. To those few listeners familiar with the tune, "All Too Soon" might summon up one of Duke Ellington's more obscure compositions, were it ...

Sandip Trivedi and Shubha Tole at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Photo: Manoj Patil/Mint. He is a theorist, inclined to look at the big picture, thinking in abstract. She is an ...

In 2012, Willie Nelson released a song that could well have been his epitaph: “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” a honky-tonk jam that partnered him up with a group of fellow marijuana ...

Even trailblazing composers like Steve Reich sometimes look to the distant past for inspiration. His 1993 Duet for two violins and strings is music in which minimalism reaches back to its ancient ...