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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The latest trend in hip-hop has the genre going highbrow. More than a half-century since it started, the most popular genre in the ...

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RZA, the legendary founding member of Wu-Tang Clan, is embarking on a remarkable journey of artistic evolution. He has recently produced a symphonic ballet score titled “A Ballet Through Mud,” which ...

Jeffrey McNeill, otherwise known as Thee Phantom (right), performs with his partner Andrea Coln McNeill at Carnegie Hall in New York. The duo behind the Illharmonic Orchestra is set to perform in ...

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Classical instruments and orchestrations aren’t unknown in hip-hop music, but nobody mingles those sounds like the Illharmonic Orchestra. On Nov. 22, the New York-based ensemble is playing the Shubert ...