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  • Elizabeth Doyle.
    Elizabeth Doyle On Piano Jazz
    Singer, pianist, and composer Elizabeth Doyle is one of Chicago's most captivating performers. She blends a dreamy vocal style with swinging piano work, deftly accompanying herself on both classic standards and her own compositions.
  • Left to right: Tarus Mateen, Jason Moran, Donvonte McCoy, Nasheet Waits and Marshall Keys perform at the Kennedy Center's Election Night Jam.
    Late Returns From Election Night
    On Tuesday night, pianist Jason Moran hosted an Election Night Jam at the Kennedy Center, where he mixed American classic tunes and campaign songs new and old. It represents the latest chapter in jazz's engagement with politics, including a few "presidential" nominations.
  • Creative Montco: Montgomery County's New Cultural Initiative
    In the midst of a still rocky financial landscape, one suburban Philadelphia county is investing in the arts as a path to a more vibrant local economy.…
  • Composer Elliott Carter, who died on Nov. 5 at age 103.
    Daniel Barenboim Remembers Elliott Carter
    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."
  • Kile Smith Suggests: Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem
    Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches RequiemBerlin Philharmonic, Thomas Quasthoff, Dorothea Röschmann, Simon RattleIt starts in regions below your feet where…
  • Bob French sits at his drum set prior to performing at the New Orleans club d.b.a. in 2007.
    Bob French, New Orleans Drummer And Bandleader, Has Died
    Much like his father before him, French spent decades leading the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, a group in existence for more than 100 years. His outspoken, colorful personality made him a stalwart of the local music scene — and briefly won him national attention, too.
  • A Big Band Jazz Classics "Makeover"
    Join us this Sunday when some of your favorite Big Band Classics get a "makeover" by some of the present-day bands. The Diva Jazz Orchestra gets to re-do…
  • Minnesota Orchestra music director Osmo Vänskä, whose pleas to his symphony's management and players just went public.
    Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week
    Vänskä pleads for both sides to work together in Minnesota, Muti declines to make a statement and a monocled (!) tenor signs to DG: the stories you must know and a guide to all the news that's fit to link. And a composer exols the durability of the orchestra and the versatility of scissors.
  • Verdi's DON CARLOS Says It All With Opera!
    A long war between France and Spain winds down with a peace treaty. A cross-border royal marriage solidifies the deal. Over the course of the next several…
  • Wayfaring Stranger on Now is the Time
    We travel over different paths on Now is the Time, Sunday, November 18th at 10 pm. Sebastian Currier's Static, the 2007 Grawemeyer Award winner,…
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