NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Nature's World from the Chicago hip-hop duo Mother Nature, FKJ's VINCENT, a meditative album from Japanese composer Midori Takada and more.

On Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.

A straight-ahead jazz piece with a nice easy tempo and elegant flourishes. Franklin leads a tight ensemble, which exudes both warmth and professionalism. Recommended. This song appears by permission ...

Though popular throughout the 1980s, the Midori Sour is often seen as a 20th-century relic and a casualty of the post-disco era of cocktail excess. However, fruit-forward and refreshing, this neon ...

Midori: I think it was very, very important. ... In bringing the Song of Rapa Nui to the world, pianist brings music education home. By Jeffrey Brown, Mike Fritz. Apr 15.

When she was ten years old, Stephanie Song landed in New York to study with Dorothy Delay, teacher of many great violinists including Itzhak Perlman and Midori. Song, now 17, credits Delay for ...

Microsoft's leaked Midori project details reveal focus on cloud, concurrency, safety, and Windows interoperability. Midori aimed for driver isolation in the kernel for system stability.

Midori also teaches a two-day, 16-hour "ropes dojo" class in a private club on Mission Street, where, on a recent Saturday, three dozen people of various ethnicities and ages wound white ropes ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series about the life and career of violinist Midori Goto based on an interview. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of her debut, the musician, who ...

Midori Francis sat down with POPSUGAR and discussed her character Alicia on The Sex Lives of College Girls and more for our Last Call series.