Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...

Discover the full lyrics of the UEFA Champions League anthem, composed by Tony Britten and sung in English, French, and German.

The 180-year-old Christian songbook "The Sacred Harp" is still in use today, and a new edition — the first in 34 years — is ...

Director Donald Rice—son of lyricist Tim Rice—celebrates the original album by focusing on music in an artfully-staged ...

It’s intoxicating, not at all theartsdesk on Vinyl ’s usual thing but achieving soaring lift-off, nonetheless. Comes in photo ...

The Cape Cod Theatre Project has revealed its 31st Season of New Plays, running weekend nights in July from July 3 through July 26 at Falmouth Academy's Simon Center for the Arts. See the lineup and ...

The 69th Eurovision Song Contest had a seriously dramatic finish – one that probably gave organisers a minor heart attack. Following another year in which this strenuously non-political event was ...

This summer’s busy music schedule at the Shore is without any oversize Atlantic City beach concerts for the second year running. But there’s plenty of action in casino showrooms, Cape May concert ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national ... foundation president Rufus Jones said he worked with a Milwaukee composer to find the "most excellent singers" in the city for ...

The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. His brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873 ...

Since 2021, pregame ceremonies for football’s biggest night have included a performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn penned in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a civil rights ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn known by many as the “Black national anthem,” was written in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson, who later bought a home and writing cabin off Alford Road in Great ...