Since I carped long and hard about Berlioz and man-splaining, let us go to the root of the issue — program music. Program music is a composition that attempts to portray a specific mood or story. We ...

Before they all sang “Happy,” by Pharrell Williams, musician Traiveon Dunlap reminded the elementary schoolers seated in a circle in front of him at 825 Arts of their parts in the song. The whole ...