So Percussion performs a Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR Music offices on Jan. 31, 2012. Emily Bogle/NPR hide caption
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Víkingur Ólafsson plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert. NPR hide caption
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann, with pianist Helmut Deutsch, in recital at a Baroque abbey in Bavaria. The performance was part of the Metropolitan Opera's new live streaming series. Metropolitan Opera hide caption
Pianist Leon Fleisher eventually resumed playing with both hands after an injury sidelined him at age 36. Chris Hartlove/Provided by the artist hide caption
A drawing of composer William Dawson in 1935 by Aaron Douglas. Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony, long neglected, has received a new recording. Aaron Douglas/Tuskegee University Archives hide caption
New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill coined the hashtag #TakeTwoKnees as part of a social media effort to protest police violence. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Steve Reich in New York City in 2005. During the coronavirus crisis, the composer has been is Los Angeles, working on a new piece. Jeffrey Herman/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's mercurial music, with its sparkle and unpredictability, was a departure from the style of his father, Johann Sebastian. De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images hide caption
Augustin Hadelich plays a Tiny Desk concert. Kisha Ravi/NPR/NPR hide caption
Mahan Esfahani plays a Tiny Desk Concert. Kisha Ravi/NPR/NPR hide caption
Lang Lang plays Tiny Desk Home concert. NPR/NPR hide caption
In the wake of pandemics and large-scale crises, composers have responded in a broad variety of ways over the centuries. Wellcome Library, London/Wikimedia Commons hide caption
Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, at the opening of a music center named after him in southeastern Poland in 2013. Janek Skarzynsky/AFP / Getty Images hide caption
Krzysztof Penderecki, Boundary-Breaking Polish Composer, Dies At 86
Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson says he thinks of the composers on his new album, Debussy – Rameau, as "painters in sound." Ari Magg/Deutsche Grammophon hide caption