The global coronavirus pandemic, when it arrived in our lives five years ago this week, affected the world of music in basically the same way it did everything else. Musicians froze their lives and ...

A heartfelt musical composition will be played every hour among the cherry trees at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to mark the fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece — titled “loved.” — ...

Next to the unifying moments that music enabled, the pandemic also showed two basic things to be true: First, it made clear just how easy our access to music is now — it is truly a nearly infinite ...

The pandemic-minded music that emerged after people began absorbing the initial shock of the catastrophe honored a set of values more redolent of mindfulness and other mental-health or spiritual ...

The coronavirus pandemic reordered almost everything about the music industry, from touring to streaming, interrupting careers and stealing lives. (Illustration by Jackie Lay. Photos by Frazer ...