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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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For conductor Marin Alsop, Bernstein's idiosyncratic Second Symphony — inspired by W.H. Auden's poem The Age of Anxiety — is a musical quest to answer life's big questions with time out to throw a hip-swinging party. -
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.
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When Bryce Dessner of The National and Clogs wrote his first piece for string quartet, it was premiered by one of the great ensembles, the Kronos Quartet. Watch the video premiere of Dessner's 'Aheym,' with kinetic imagery by artist Matthew Ritchie.
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Fridays are funnier with a cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.
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Explore three non-symphonies with epic sweep: Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece In C, Phil Kline's holiday boombox parade Unsilent Night and John Luther Adams' percussion extravaganza Inuksuit.
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Fridays are funnier with a cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.
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A bright-eyed child transforms an elegiac prayer in a new video from New York Polyphony and director Mark DeChiazza, featuring incandescent music by the late English composer Richard Rodney Bennett.
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Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel — the artistic director of the American Composers Orchestra — sets out to answer a difficult question: Why don't we see more new works boasting the name "symphony"?
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Spruce up the woodshed: with the new school year upon us, here are some easy ways to help you maximize music practice time — regardless of how old you are or what level of playing you've achieved.
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Fridays are funnier with a cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.
