David Yearsley

God looks down on the Murray Harris organ in Memorial Church, Stanford University. Photo: David Yearsley.

Often when I practice the organ I’m immersed in the immediacy of each successive moment of music-making. Act and sound conjoin in the uninterrupted

Screenshot of Lee Greenwood at the RNC. The country singer Lee Greenwood was born three weeks before Joe Biden.

One of the most telling aspects of the first Trump presidency was the absence of music. The boxers’ clutch of Melania and Donald at their 2017 inaugural

It just kept rolling along, painting always unpredictable, always alluring patterns on its surface, caressing the embankment, gracefully sliding through

In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York.

The devil is in the details. During this week’s Democratic National Convention, he was also in an elevator headed down to the infernal basement far below

Still from the trailer for Shaboozey's Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going (YouTube screenshot)

Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue turned sixty-five last month, the same age at which the trumpeter would die thirty-two years after recording the album. The

by Two years ago, the newly formed independent label False Azure Records (FAR) issued its first album, the labor of forgetting . That title is itself a paradox.