Music
Yardbird: 100 Years of Charlie Parker
Dominic Green looks at the immortality of jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker
The welcome sound of silence
For three days I listened to nothing but birdsong, marvelling at the variety and the volume
Havana heartbeat
How a stiff, gangly, middle-aged Englishman fell for the seductive rhythms of Cuba
Welcome to the unfrozen North
How Canada reinvented its musical prowess
Clementi House
From music to medicine: the secrets of a Kensington home
Unleash this heavenly voice
The role of music in Jewish worship has acquired a sudden topicality with the involvement of two major record labels
Less austerity, more pizazz
Grand opera was long thought quite dead but is suddenly rearing its shaggy head again
Calculated absurdity
I want to listen to music that sounds like the dumb hopefulness of being young that I once couldn’t wait to rid myself of, says Sarah Ditum
Tapping into history
As soon as you enter Idagio.com you can kiss your working day goodbye
The politics of the Pet Shop Boys
How the electronic dance duo made more than a minimal contribution to music