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Maria Baranova/Unison MediaThe PROTOTYPE festival, now in its 10th year, presents new operas and music-theater works in smaller settings. "We were trying to create a black box opera movement," says co-founder Beth Morrison. -
Alex Teplitzky/NYPLMore than a century ago, a Met librarian made some of the first live music recordings. Now, (with an assist from NPR) 16 of the Mapleson Cylinders are joining the New York Public Library collection.
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The velvet-voiced soprano with a career on the rise chooses her projects, and the music on her debut solo album, with consummate intention. -
Discover a broad spectrum of this year's most compelling classical music, from booby-trapped string quartets and chilled-out piano to full-throttle percussion, electric guitars and high-flying vocals.
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A type of furniture is once again the focal point for an art exhibit at a northern Illinois art gallery.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and diarist died Friday at age 99. Although he won the Pulitzer for an orchestral work, he was most celebrated for his huge body of art songs — over 500 in all.
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The great violin virtuoso had a few food issues in his life, including being deprived of meals as a kid, and of his teeth as an adult. He made up for it with this bold, meaty pasta dish.
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As the new concert season gets underway, composers and orchestra administrators say they are feeling a shift in whose music gets heard.
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Collecting traditional tunes from all over the British Isles, Vaughan Williams famously produced gently modal folksong fantasies evoking England's "green and pleasant land."
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The new David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center, home of the New York Philharmonic, opens this week. And while the outside is the same, everything inside has changed.
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In 2014, a study found that only 1.4% of orchestra musicians were Black. In 2022, it's hard to know if that number is better or worse.
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A northern Illinois park is installing steel murals as part of a local art initiative.
