It's after dinner. We've cleaned up the dishes and our youngest daughter is already asleep. My spouse has brewed tea and is queuing up something for the grown-ups to watch. Standing (or rather lying) ...

OK, parents and caretakers of young kids. Listen up. This one's for you. It's been a long day. You're tired. You just want to relax. But you have a kid to put to bed, and they're not sleeping. For our ...

Four millennia ago an ancient Babylonian wrote down a lullaby sung by a mother to her child. It may have got the baby to sleep, but its message is far from soothing - and this remains a feature of ...

A lullaby, more than other forms of music, implies a specific performer and a specific audience. From Middle English “to lull,” the archetypical lullaby is sung gently by a mother or caretaker to a ...

The project, run by the Portland-based ensemble Palaver Strings, pairs new parents with professional musicians to write, ...

Originating in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, The Lullaby Project pairs pregnant women and new mothers and fathers with professional artists to write and sing personal lullabies for their ...

In the 1920s, the poet Federico García Lorca heard a woman in Granada sing a lullaby to her child and was struck by the sadness of the song. In a lecture delivered in Madrid in 1928, he observed that ...

Johannes Brahms was a renowned German composer and pianist, born in 1833. He is celebrated for his symphonic works, chamber music, and piano compositions, with his Lullaby being one of his most ...

Since 2019, a group of Vermont organizations has offered parents dealing with domestic violence, addiction or incarceration a novel approach to finding healing: composing lullabies for their children.

Toronto-based, Belgrade-born musician, producer and DJ Kat Duma leans into a hushed synth-pop incantation that moves like a ...