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Archival interests among artists may be residue of our tumultuously evolving digital age.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

The rhythms of real life can be tumultuously cruel, but sometimes they explode in patterns — not unlike a rock-and-roll drum beat.

From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2022

I had a five-year marriage that ended tumultuously because of my ex-wife having an affair.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2019

You can’t miss the internal tensions of Seattle’s history, the almost opposing forces that tumultuously run through it.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2012

One composer who had no qualms about cooperating with the Nazi regime was Carl Orff, whose Carmina Burana had its tumultuously successful premiere in Frankfurt in June 1937.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall