Nicholas Emmanuel writes about music’s role in building community, specializing in the difficulties of making music in “extremely restrictive environments.” Now the UB doctoral student who won over ...

Based on the nationally best-selling novel of the same name by 2005 MacArthur Fellow Jonathan Lethem, this soaring new musical THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE will open in October with a dynamite creative ...

A few streets outside of Milan's city center is an uncharacteristically utilitarian block of 1930s flats. From her window in one of these buildings, the electronic musician Caterina Barbieri can see ...

Music runs like a river through Jonathan Lethem’s best-selling 2003 novel, “The Fortress of Solitude,” set in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The work centers on the unlikely ...

"I remember when I started doing music a few years ago, my main objective was to showcase African music in a different light," wrote Montreal musician Pierre Kwenders about the song "Woods Of Solitude ...