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A group of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students realized there was no children's book about the composer Florence Price. So they wrote, illustrated and published their own. -
Renee Klahr/Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year.
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A new star out of the El Sistema program says that her goal in playing Chopin is valuing honesty over prettiness. -
Yesterday's online firestorm that raged between the Metropolitan Opera, music critics and fans triggers crucial questions about the place and value of music criticism — and we'd like to hear from you.
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The pianist's new album features some of the most difficult etudes ever written for solo piano by the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti. "Ligeti took the piano to places it had never been before," he says, "and makes demands of the pianist and the mind that had never been made before."
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The outstanding Cambini-Paris Quartet uncovers the neglected chamber music of Félicien David.
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Download the score of a piece commissioned by NPR Music to honor the composer's 75th birthday, learn the music and then come sing the very first performance with us on June 21 in the heart of Manhattan.
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Fischer-Dieskau's passing, a Viennese fraudster and a brawl on a Chinese train: all the news that's fit to link.
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Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
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Widely respected by fellow musicians and audiences as one of the greatest classical singers of the 20th century, the baritone has died at age 86.
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Retired Air Force bugler Jari Villanueva gives us a glimpse of the fascinating history behind these 24 somber notes.
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Learn along with Londoners in this fun video primer on one of classical music's quirkiest rhythms, courtesy of the London Symphony Orchestra.
