“Music paints a portrait,” Tambura Amondawa says. For the Amondawa Indigenous “river people” of Brazil, their songs “take shape by writing, like poetry.” The storytelling in these songs recounts a ...

The first lec-dem session of The Music Academy’s 98th Conference and Concerts marked the return of a thematic focus after 49 years. This is curated by this year’s Sangita Kalanidhi designate T.M.