entertainment - "music"

When Hank Williams died on New Year's day in 1953, he left behind a legacy of honky tonk hits as well an extended family who would continue making music for decades to come. Milo Miles reviews 'Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy,' an exhibit at the Country music Hall of Fame. '

It was announced today that past Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Julie White will host the pre-tony Award show, the Creative Arts Awards, prior to the Tony broadcast. The show will start around 7:10PM at Radio City music Hall and be broadcast live from www.tonyawards.com

Operatic tenor Wayne Conner was an classical-music radio personality as well as a teacher at The Curtis Institute of music, The Academy of Vocal Arts and the Peabody Institute. For 30 years, he also produced and hosted WHYY's 'Singer's World' and 'Collector's Corner.' Connor died May 9 of liver cancer at the age of 79.

Onstage at Jazz Standard in new york, Jonathan Batiste is up first. The pianist just got his Bachelor of music from Julliard. He leads off for John Ellis & Double-Wide with music from their new CD Dance Like There's No Tomorrow, this week on JazzSet.

While Atmosphere's new album frequently profiles bums, junkies, and promiscuous women, 'In Her music Box' paints a tender portrait of a young, adoring daughter. She and her dad are connected by their love of rap music, and in between trips to McDonald's and the car wash, they sing in their Buick.

Phil Roy is not making lunch after all. Too hot. Besides, it's his music he wants to talk about, not the whole cooking thing.

Music News: Shout!, Country Hall of Fame to produce series -- Documentarians David Leaf and Morgan Neville will chronicle the history of country music in a series exec produced by Shout! Factory and the Country music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Music News: Reports say media giant aiming for $1.5 billion -- German media giant Bertelsmann is reportedly looking to bank between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion for its half of Sony BMG, which it hopes to sell to Sony Corp. by mid-summer.

Arvel Bird/Will Clipman/Mary Redhouse/William EatonAnaneah (Singing Wolf Records SWF 90304-2, 2006)I’ve long been keen on Native American-based music that breaks the mold of what some folks think Native American music ought to be. This is one such disc, and though it came out two years ago, it merits mention in the here and now for several reasons. First, it prominently features the violin, not exactly an indigenous staple. Played with subtle mastery by Arvel Bird, the violin here has a sad/sweet duality, particularly in those passages where it does some easy-flowing tradeoffs with the lovely hybrid stringed instruments built and played by guitarist/luthier William Eaton. Second, even though that most identifiable of Native American instruments, the cedar flute, is present, it comes and goes like a shadowy spir...

As the new visual history 'No Wave: Post-Punk' shows, no wave was perhaps the strangest and shortest-lived moment in the history of experimental music in new york.