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This San Diego Sound Project concert series highlights emerging groups or artists within the San Diego region. The project is supported by an advisory committee that includes GRAMMY Award winning producer and UCSD faculty member Kamau Kenyatta, CSUSM Professor and Center ARTES Executive Director Dr. Merryl Goldberg, Grossmont College Music Department Chair Derek Cannon, Emmy Award-winning composer and MiraCosta College faculty member Christy Coobatis, and Connections Chamber Music Series Co-Founder Bridget Dolkas. The San Diego Sound Project kicks off with the Montalban Quintet, a jazzy rock collective based out of San Diego. Featuring influences of post-punk, minimalism, jazz, 50s schmaltz, field recordings, and new western art music, a live show with the Montalban Quintet is an eclectic and soul-filling experience. The San Diego Sound Project has been made possible in part by The Conrad Prebys Foundation. Date | Sunday, September 26 at 4 p.m. Location | Museum of Making MusicGet tickets here! General admission: $20 For more information, please visit museumofmakingmusic.org/events/sdsp-montalban-quintet or call (760) 438-5996.

Join art and music historian Victoria Martino on a five-week art and music lecture series to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, as she begins a five-week course in honor of the poet’s power of inspiration, ranging from medieval to modern times. Dates | Tuesdays, September 14, 21, 28, and October 5, 12, at 6:30 p.m. Full schedule: • September 14: Dante’s Florence: La Vita Nuova • September 21: Life in Exile: La Divina Commedia • September 28: La Divina Commedia - Inferno • October 5: La Divina Commedia - Purgatorio • October 12: La Divina Commedia - Paradiso Register here! Five-lecture package for members: $70 plus fees Five-lecture package for non-members: $95 plus fees Individual lecture for members: $16 plus fees Individual lecture for non-members: $21 plus feesVictoria Martino studied the "La Divina Commedia" in the original Italian at Harvard University, with legendary Dante scholar Dante Della Terza. She analyzed and wrote on the relationship between Dante’s text and William Blake’s watercolor illustrations in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums. This lecture series is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Professor Della Terza, who passed away on April 6, 2021. For more information, please visit ljathenaeum.org or contact Athenaeum Music & Arts Library at info@ljathenaeum.org or call (858) 454-5872.

Ukrainian officials promise to rebuild and revitalize Mariupol - which Russian forces have destroyed and now occupy. Some who fled the city doubt they will ever return.

The work of Dr. Seuss is easy to spot. But an art exhibit in Solana Beach is giving visitors a peek at his secret art that not many people have seen.

The newly minted A-list rapper variously calls himself a legend, a hero and a boss on the album, but the songs never embrace that mythmaking or mold those labels into personas.

In 2014, a study found that only 1.4% of orchestra musicians were Black. In 2022, it's hard to know if that number is better or worse.

This weekend in the arts: The San Diego Gay Men's Chorus, two Christmas album release concerts from Matrida and SACRA/PROFANA, small works at Quint Gallery, Golden State Ballet's "Nutcracker," Cognate Collective closes at Best Practice, and a North Park LEGO exhibition.

Premieres Friday, March 24, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Follow two performers as they break down barriers in music. Opera singer J’Nai Bridges takes the stage in “A Knee on the Neck,” a tribute to George Floyd. Country artist Rissi Palmer works on her latest album while uplifting other artists of color.

Poverty, by America author Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year: "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty."