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The management company of conductor Valery Gergiev has decided to drop him over his close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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A Russian conductor has been dropped by a management company over his ties to Putin

4:45pm February 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

Valery Gergiev had been represented since December 2020 by Munich-based Marcus Felsner, who started his own management company that year after leaving Opus3.

Jennifer Hudson wins top honor at 53rd NAACP Image Awards

6:17am February 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

Hudson wins entertainer of the year at the 53rd annual NAACP Image Awards honoring work by entertainers of color, beating out Regina King, Lil Nas X, Megan Thee Stallion and Tiffany Haddish.

The Eurovision Song Contest was held in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in 2017. Russia has been excluded from the 2022 edition following its invasion of Ukraine.

Changing course, Eurovision organizers say no Russian act will compete this year

3:31pm February 25, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Organizers cited concerns that "the inclusion of a Russian entry in this year's Contest would bring the competition into disrepute" in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Bonnie Raitt, 'Made Up Mind'

2:03pm February 25, 2022

by Ann Powers

Bonnie Raitt's new single shows that the 72-year-old blues-rock treasure is the master of the form.

"This record was just written for me to process — not for others to dissect," Dixon tells NPR of his 2021 album For My Mama And Anyone Who Looks Like Her.

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Virginia rapper McKinley Dixon on the power of community and making music for himself

12:31pm February 25, 2022

by Desire Moses

A self-described "musical time traveler," Dixon uses genres from hip-hop to jazz to analyze the past and enact change in the present.

Shirley Caesar performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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Pastor Shirley Caesar: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

9:58am February 25, 2022

by Mitra I. Arthur

The "First Lady of Gospel Music" delivers a sampling of her vast music ministry in this Tiny Desk home Concert.

Tiny Desk Contest entrant Elora's entry, "Ridley"

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Entries We Love: Elora, 'Ridley'

8:00am February 25, 2022

by Elle Mannion

This is folk band Elora's first time entering the Tiny Desk Contest, but thanks to lead singer Elora Aclin's warm and welcoming voice, "Ridley" sounds like a familiar embrace.

Erin Rae's songs of empathic, exacting quiet

7:01am February 25, 2022

by Jewly Hight

For a new album, Lighten Up, the singer-songwriter brought her broadly empathetic piece of mind to to Topanga, Calif. to gain a light wash of psychedelia.

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Entries We Love: Melody Angel, 'In This America'

7:00am February 25, 2022

Artist Melody Angel exudes strength while singing of fear in her Tiny Desk Contest entry.

Composer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey leads a rehearsal of his Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) at the Rothko Chapel in Houston on Feb. 18.

At the Rothko Chapel, Tyshawn Sorey explores sound — and silence

4:15pm February 24, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Invited to write a new work for Houston's Rothko Chapel, the composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey created a work that is both intimate and vast, like those Mark Rothko paintings.