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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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Our suggestions for a playlist to accompany your Turkey Day, from cooking to dining to cleaning up, brimming with American sounds from all over the musical map. -
The celebrated English conductor leads his Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir in a performance of one of Beethoven's most expansive and searching works: the Missa Solemnis.
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Friday's are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
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Cellist Matt Haimovitz was raised on a strict diet of classical music. Somewhere along the way his tastes broadened considerably. Hear an eclectic mix of music — from Nina Simone to Mstislav Rostropovich — as the adventurous cellist spins his favorites in the studio.
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A young Canadian composer of Chinese parentage deftly mixes East and West in her recent creations, which include a virtuosic violin concerto called Dreamscapes. The musical salad Fung tosses up should appeal to anyone with an inquiring mind and open ears.
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The world-renowned conductor and pianist reflects on his late friend and colleague Elliott Carter, whose music he strongly championed: "Sometimes I think if Haydn were alive today, he would compose like Carter did in his last years."
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Now considered one of Verdi's masterpieces, the opera flopped on its first run and carries the stigma of cursing those who perform it to terrible fates.
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When peace was declared at the end of World War II, Army veteran Harold Van Heuvelen did something different than his troop mates — he wrote a symphony. This week he traveled to Virginia to hear it performed for the first time.
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Perhaps the most recognized contemporary composer in the world, Williams calls retiring "unthinkable." He celebrated his 80th birthday this year by working on the score for Steven Spielberg's new film Lincoln.
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Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
