Music

• Good Calls - This week, we close out the year with your best advice of 2025.
• ‘Carol of the Bells’ Once Filled the Air Here. Now It’s Only Bombs. - Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian composer of the famed festive song, lived in the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Months of Russian assaults have erased most tributes to his life there.
• Kennedy Center’s Christmas Eve Jazz Show Canceled After Trump Name Added to Building - Chuck Redd, a jazz musician, said he canceled his annual concert after President Trump’s name was affixed to the Washington building’s facade.