By Mesfin Fekadu, AP Music Writer | Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In just two years, English singer Ed Sheeran has gone from the small stage to the big league. The 22-year-old earned a gold album with his 2011 debut, “+,” and his Top 20 hit, “The A Team,” was nominated for song of […]

By JAKE PEARSON NEW YORK (AP) — To many, the real soundtrack of New York City plays out well below the street cacophony of rumbling traffic and honking horns, in the subways, where screeching trains combine with the drumming, strumming and singing of hundreds of performers. They are known as buskers, and they have one […]

BY PAUL BERMAN hould children study violin—or rather, be forced to study violin? Or forced to study ballet? Mark Oppenheimer published a piece in The New Republic the other day asking this question in the urgent manner of a dad fretting over his daughter’s education. Oppenheimer tells us that, as it happens, his daughter is […]