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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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Conductor David Robertson decodes America's orchestral anxieties, from nurturing new works to playing the classics. "I'm seen by many people as having horns and a forked tail," he says, "because I actually love to discover something that has not been played before." -
Thile was a prodigy with Nickel Creek at age 8, a founding member and lead vocalist of the Punch Brothers, has won multiple Grammys and is a MacArthur fellow. Now he's taking on the music of Bach for a new album, Sonatas and Partitas.
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Up until recently, the likely composers of the great American symphony looked remarkably similar: all white, overwhelmingly male. But recent developments have opened up the doors to composers who were once lost to history.
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Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
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The celebrated singer Thomas Hampson found himself in a verbal boxing match, defending opera and classical music from an unusually contentious host on a recent British talk show.
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Kevin Puts won the Pulitzer Prize for his opera Silent Night. He's written concertos and lots of other music, but he says writing a symphony is a particularly moving experience: "I need a private place where I can express the spiritual, the epic, the heartbreaking without shame or embarrassment."
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Part of understanding African sacred music means thinking about its colonial context. It's the music of oppressed people combined with the music of their oppressors. For decades, Fred Onovwerosuoke has collected and arranged this music for choral groups.
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Friday are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
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Five acclaimed American conductors and composers — from Pulitzer Prize winners Jennifer Higdon and David Lang to the Atlanta Symphony's Robert Spano — pick their favorite homegrown symphonic works.
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"A composer like me could not have existed in Europe 150 years ago," says 27-year-old Arab-American Mohammed Fairouz. Learn more about his work — including a wind symphony inspired by artist Art Spiegelman's comics — and hear excerpts from an upcoming recording.
