Rufus Wainwright says that sometimes when he sings he lets his imagination wander. “Depending on how difficult the piece is, I mean,” he quickly adds. “Sometimes I have to be totally concentrated and ...

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Rufus and Martha Wainwright are launching a new initiative in honor of their late mother, Kate McGarrigle, to provide musicians living with aggressive cancer time in professional recording studios.

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. If all his Shakespeare and opera was getting a ...