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May 15 | See Vijay Iyer, a composer and pianist revered as one of the leading music-makers of his generation, presented by Emerald City Music.

The work draws on poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham to trace a cycle of transformations, from the bodily estrangement of a person undergoing medical intervention to a state of more-than-human awareness of the physical and planetary world.

At Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, Music for New Bodies explored major forces shaping our world.

Aaron Grad shares his perspective onf why we need Many Messiahs, a concert for racial justice featuring artists from different musical worlds drawing inspiration from Handel’s Messiah.

Artists Monica Rojas-Stewart, Taina Asili, Sonny Singh and Darian Dachaun discuss Many Messiahs — a revolutionary take on Handel’s 300-year-old masterpiece that transforms an ancient tale of a savior into an urgent call to action.

An Oscar-winning Indigenous artist who rose to prominence in New York’s Greenwich Village folk music scene, Buffy Sainte-Marie has had a six-decade groundbreaking career as a singer-songwriter, social activist, educator and artist. This timeline explores Sainte-Marie’s life and the major milestones in her career.

Buffy Sainte-Marie is a living legend and a musical genius. But she’s also “Buffy who?” to a lot of people who have never heard of her before.

Experience the story of the Oscar-winning Indigenous artist from her rise to prominence in New York’s Greenwich Village folk music scene through her six-decade groundbreaking career as a singer-songwriter, social activist, educator and artist.

The Aten was the name for the sun disc deity in Ancient Egypt. The term is best known to us because of Pharaoh Akhenaten’s “Hymn to the Aten” or “Hymn to the Sun”, often cited as the earliest surviving example of African poetry.

"Some call me a soul sonic superstar," says Jomama Jones, the alter ego of TED Fellow and theater artist Daniel Alexander Jones. In this stunning talk and performance, Jomama Jones invites us to consider how coming undone can be the first step toward transformation. It's a powerful story of community, growth and renewal -- and how breaking apart can mean breaking open.