But when he realized his new home lacked a classical composers’ organization, he spearheaded the creation of a new one. In ...

Mozart and Chopin wrote their music hundreds of years ago. In recent months, their music was still being discovered in ...

His instrumental music surges with Ivesian detail and color. His “Black ... the composer-in-residence of the Lexington Philharmonic, the same orchestra that first exposed him to classical ...

Students, faculty and staff are invited to get a free ticket for the performance at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 11. For a free ticket, show your Bronco Card at the Morrison Center Ticket Office, 10 a.m. to 3 ...

Nora Holt encouraged readers to perform music by Black composers. “We think of diversifying classical music as such a recent development, but here she was a hundred years ago,” says Caplan.

Scroll through TikTok for a few minutes (that can easily stretch into a few hours), and the odds are good that you’ll encounter one of the 2.6 million posts set to Frederic Chopin’s Nocturne No 2 – ...

The piano duo P 4 2 (Piano for two), comprised of  Beata Pincetić and Christos Sakellaridis, one of the most dynamic forces ...

answers to the form’s most stubborn questions and revealing dives into the history of Black composers and musicians. Classical harpist Madison Calley has found an audience of nearly half a ...

Here are 16 Chicago creatives who stood out in 2024, including saxophonist Isaiah Collier, director and co-founder of ...

You might think such a notable figure would factor prominently in American music classrooms. Yet my research shows that Jones, who was Black ... cited were written by composers who were not ...

Another “complete piano works” and anniversary crossover was Lucas Debargue’s 4 CD set of Fauré (Sony) marking the centenary of his death. It charts the composer’s progression from mid-19th century ...

Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and ...