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How to watch the 2025 Grammys in the UK – and full list of performers and nominees
It’s not going to be a typical Grammy party atmosphere…Of course, we’re going to honor music, but our goal is to utilise ...
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One of the Oldest Surviving Operas by a Black American Composer Will Be Performed for the First Time—138 Years After It Was Written
Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...
After 138 years, Black American opera composer Edmond Dédé‘s masterpiece makes its debut
After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance ...
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African American Composer Initiative honors musical traditions across generations
The group will hold its 14th annual benefit concert Feb. 1-2 at East Palo Alto's Eastside College Preparatory School.
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To these Chicago Symphony players, here’s the sound of music in an era of crisis
Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Danny Jin warms up on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, before a concert. Jin will be among a small group of players performing Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of ...
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Opera Lafayette to premiere oldest known opera by black American composer
Morgiane, ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan, a grand opera composed in 1887 by Edmond Dédé, a black, free-born New Orleans native based ...
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Ravel’s solo piano works, choral pieces by David Lang and Palestrina, and miniatures written for the pianist Adam Tendler are among the highlights.
How Victorian melodrama turned the sweet music of gothic into something dark and sinister
In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th ...
840 encores: Igor Levit and Marina Abramović plan a mammoth 20 hour Erik Satie performance
In 1963, John Cage organised the first performance of ‘Vexations’. Cage, the American modernist composer, had discovered the ...
How to play incorporate neoclassical, Danny Elfman-style arpeggios in your playing
Classical-style arpeggios meet Gypsy jazz-flavored minor melodies in this exclusive video lesson from Andy Wood that’s ...