Music

Are you thinking of taking up a musical instrument? Can you already play some tunes but want to improve? Do you struggle to find the time or budget to commit to paid lessons? You can now perfect your playing skills with free online Irish Traditional Music courses in the most popular instruments. Discover the joy…

Welcome to Conversations With Journalists! In this series, we invite students to join discussions about New York Times articles with Times journalists and other teenagers from around the world. A new selection publishes every two weeks. Learn more about the feature and find a schedule of the pieces we’ll be reading together in the future…

Do you play any musical instrument — or have you ever? Do you think music should be an essential part of every child’s education?In “We’re Teaching Music to Kids All Wrong,” Sammy Miller, a Grammy-nominated drummer and the founder of a music education company, writes:Each fall, as school starts up again, music educators witness a…

South Africa is a country known for its history, rich cultural diversity, and heritage. It’s a melting pot of cultures and where the social and cultural interactions among its various ethnic groups make South Africa a unique and vibrant mosaic of traditions and customs. In this article, we’ll look at why Heritage Day is important…

Dermot Sheedy is a bodhrán player, percussionist and drummer from County Clare. Dermot started playing the bodhrán aged 6 and has 25 years experience of the instrument. A professional musician for the last ten years, he is a member of the Limerick band Hermitage Green, as part of which he has toured the world and…

Teens in Philadelphia are trying to make safer neighborhoods. Many are starting with music.

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “How Pop Music Fandom Became Sports, Politics, Religion and All-Out War” by Joe CoscarelliOn social media in 2020, “the stan was ascendant,” reports Joe Coscarelli, a Times culture reporter. How did music fan culture…

What kind of music do your parents like? Do you enjoy listening to it with them, whether in the car or at home, or do you wish they would put on something else?When Deftones’s hit “Change (In the House of Flies)” blared out of Tyson Burden’s car stereo in April 2020, he started to choke…

At the Grammy Awards on Sunday, Olivia Rodrigo, Silk Sonic and Jon Batiste took home some of the top prizes during what New York Times critic Jon Caramanica called “an utterly inconsistent night.”If you were the one who got to hand out Grammys, who would you give them to, and what qualities would you seek…

Now read something written by a student. In her 2018 winning entry, Isabella Levine reviews “Anthem of the Peaceful Army,” the debut album by the rock band Greta Van Fleet. Here’s the sentence at the end of the first paragraph that best captures her opinion of the album: The seeds of a potential rock revival…