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Confinement whets the appetite for wide open spaces, for propulsive movement and the vicarious thrill of collaboration. On the album On Our Own Clock, musicians from the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Senegal find kindred spirits despite having their meetup plans skewered by the pandemic. Portico Quartet find their groove on the hang drum and saxophone, in an uptempo...

When the Metropolitan Opera reopens in September, the occasion will be doubly historic after eighteen months in the dark. Some semblance of light at the end of a long tunnel, opening night will bring the Met's first performance of an opera by a black composer, in the form of Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Terence Blanchard. An...