William Banfield is a leading voice in American music, expanding what classical music can sound like and whose stories it can hold. His Symphony No. 6 blends classical, jazz, and spirituals. Tonight, ...

Michael Kurek is an classical music composer and professor at Vanderbilt University. Born in 1955, Professor Kurek earned his doctorate in composition from the University of Michigan and is a past ...

Before American composers found a voice recognized around the world, a group of musicians in New England asked a big question: what should American classical music sound like? They became known as the ...

Musician Lara Downes aims to highlight the work of composers like Harry T. Burleigh, photographed c. 1938. Granger Classical pianist Lara Downes knew she was onto something profound when audiences ...

Pride month had a classical music sound last weekend as the Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra performed “Prisms,” closing out its 29th season. Yes, other classical music ensembles in Minnesota feature ...

A collaboration with the Icelandic composer and audio engineer Valgeir Sigurõsson in 2013 introduced him to a form of electronic music making that he realised, paradoxically, allowed him to tune into ...

Classical music has blessed us with timeless musical motifs, many of which have inspired later innovations — like the trill technique in heavy metal and groovy synth-pop beats. So many of the greatest ...

When the first enslaved Africans landed on American shores in 1619, their musical traditions landed with them. Four centuries later, the primacy of African American music is indisputable, not only in ...

What in the world is SoundBox? That very question was on the minds of the fans who lined up Saturday night, along Franklin Street, for a first glimpse of San Francisco Symphony’s new performance space ...

We explore the current debate in classical music of how much recordings should be edited. When we think of editing in music, we might think of quantizing lining up rhythm in an R&B song or autotune ...