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News Articles: Genre: Classical

Host Lara Downes (left) talks with the young, Grammy-nominated jazz sensation Samara Joy.

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Lara Downes' season 3 of 'Amplify' launches with a theme of renaissance

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to pianist Lara Downes about her interview series Amplify, which examines how Black artists today might find themselves in a new cultural renaissance.

February 02, 2023
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  • Music Interviews

Jazz singer Samara Joy embraces the past while making music for the future

Watch Lara Downes' conversation with the 23-year-old, Grammy-nominated sensation about balancing the demands of a surging career and the women artists who paved the way.

February 02, 2023
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  • Lara Downes
Walter Arlen in Chicago, pictured circa 1942.

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  • Arts & Life

Forensic musicologists race to rescue works lost after the Holocaust

The Exilarte Center in Vienna is the world's leading research institution devoted to preserving the work of composers such as Walter Arlen and others, who were exiled or killed during the Holocaust.

January 30, 2023
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By:
  • Tim Greiving
Japanese musician, composer, record producer, pianist, activist, writer, actor and dancer Ryuichi Sakamoto, photographed on June 30, 2016 in Paris.

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  • Music Interviews

As Ryuichi Sakamoto returns with '12,' fellow artists recall his impact

The composer has been lauded for decades over his deeply affective music; director Alejandro González Iñárritu, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and more join us to explain why.

January 26, 2023
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  • Elizabeth Blair,
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento,
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Missy Mazzoli's next opera, <em>Lincoln in the Bardo</em>, was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and is slated for a 2025 production.

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  • Music Interviews

For Missy Mazzoli, composing is the hard work of making life easier

The composer of Breaking the Waves speaks candidly about equity in her field, the importance of role models and the unglamorous side of writing music every day.

January 26, 2023
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  • Tom Huizenga
Marc-André Hamelin performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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  • Concerts

Marc-André Hamelin: Tiny Desk Concert

Watch the pianist, who's been called "a performer of near-superhuman prowess," play a smart set that spans six centuries.

January 12, 2023
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  • Tom Huizenga
A photo of Lionel Mapleson, pasted in one of his journals.

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  • Arts & Life

This man's recordings spent years under a recliner — they've now found a new home

More 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.

January 05, 2023
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
Angelo Badalamenti in a portrait taken Feb. 9, 1990. The composer, best known for his work with director David Lynch, died Dec. 11, 2022.

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  • Music Features

The fantasia of Angelo Badalamenti, veil-piercing composer

Among other things Badalamenti's music, soft and bizarre and surging, was an emotional compass for the uncanny creations of director David Lynch.

December 19, 2022
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  • Meaghan Garvey
An exterior shot of The Juilliard School in New York City, taken in September 2020.

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  • Arts & Life

More than 500 musicians demand accountability after Juilliard misconduct allegations

After VAN magazine published accusations against Robert Beaser, a former head of The Juilliard School's composition department, hundreds of composers, educators and presenters are demanding change.

December 19, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
A 2005 exterior shot of The Juilliard School, which is located on the campus of Lincoln Center in New York City.

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  • Arts & Life

Former music students accuse two Juilliard teachers of sexual misconduct

Three people have accused two teachers at the world-renowned music school — composers Robert Beaser and the late Christopher Rouse — of sexual misconduct dating back to the 1990s and 2000s.

December 13, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas

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  • Music Lists

The 50 Best Albums Of 2022

We ranked our 50 favorite records of the year, from hip-hop to classical and everything in between.

December 12, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
The classical singer Julia Bullock has released <em>Walking in the Dark</em>, her debut solo album.

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With a bold debut album, Julia Bullock curates an unconventional career

The velvet-voiced soprano with a career on the rise chooses her projects, and the music on her debut solo album, with consummate intention.

December 09, 2022
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  • Tom Huizenga
Kelli O'Hara as Laura Brown, Renée Fleming as Clarissa Vaughan, and Joyce DiDonato as Virginia Woolf in Kevin Puts's "The Hours."

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  • Arts & Life

Three superstar divas power opera 'The Hours' - coming to movie theaters everywhere.

Kelli O'Hara, Renée Fleming, and Joyce DiDonato star in a new opera based on Michael Cunningham's book.

December 06, 2022
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
Tania Léon conducts the Youth Orchestra LA in the premiere of her work <em>Pa'lante</em> at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

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  • Music Interviews

The unplanned, unstoppable career of composer Tania León

Failure was not an option when Léon arrived in New York, a determined 24-year-old pianist from Cuba. At nearly 80, she says some things haven't changed.

December 02, 2022
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
Composer Ned Rorem in 1953 in Paris, where he lived for nearly a decade and wrote his infamous <em>Paris Diary</em>.

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  • Music

Ned Rorem, major American composer and diarist, has died at age 99

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.

November 18, 2022
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  • Dean Olsher
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