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News Articles: Genre: Classical

Third Coast Percussion's new album, <em>Perspectives</em>, is the group's most accessible.

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Third Coast Percussion's borderless music finds inspiration in fleet-footed beats

On a new album, the most accessible so far, the Grammy-winning group reaches out to an EDM wizard, a famous film score composer and Philip Glass.

May 13, 2022
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  • Tom Huizenga
ARC Ensemble performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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ARC Ensemble: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Musicians from Canada's Royal Conservatory in Toronto introduce the spirited and overlooked music of Ukrainian composer Dmitri Klebanov.

May 11, 2022
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  • Tom Huizenga
Raven Chacon's <em>Voiceless Mass</em> has won the Pulitzer Prize for music.

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Meet Raven Chacon, the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music

A composer, performer and installation artist from the Navajo Nation, Chacon's winning piece, Voiceless Mass, was composed for chamber orchestra and a specific Milwaukee pipe organ.

May 10, 2022
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  • Tom Huizenga
Jessie Montgomery's new work <em>Hymn for Everyone</em> receives its world premiere with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on April 28.

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  • Music Interviews

Can classical music really be inclusive? Composer Jessie Montgomery thinks so

With orchestras clamoring for her work, the rising artist feels a responsibility and opportunity to help reframe classical music and the institutions that present it.

April 28, 2022
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  • Tom Huizenga
Jessie Montgomery's new work <em>Hymn for Everyone</em> receives its world premiere with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on April 28.

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  • Music Interviews

Can classical music really be inclusive? Composer Jessie Montgomery thinks so

With orchestras clamoring for her work, the rising artist feels a responsibility and opportunity to help reframe classical music and the institutions that present it.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
An undated portrait of the late Romanian pianist Radu Lupu. Lupu died Sunday at age 76 in Lausanne, France.

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  • Music News

Radu Lupu, celebrated Romanian pianist, dies at age 76

A pianist widely admired by his fellow artists, Radu Lupu was known for his interpretations of Brahms, Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven, among others. Lupu retired from performing in 2019.

April 19, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
English composer Harrison Birtwistle, seen in 2002, has died, his publisher confirmed on Monday.

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  • Music News

Harrison Birtwistle, an influential English composer, has died at age 87

Known for his sonic brashness and unyielding artistic vision, Birtwistle was awarded a British knighthood in 1988. He was one of the U.K.'s most prominent composers for decades.

April 18, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
English composer Harrison Birtwistle, seen in 2002, has died, his publisher confirmed on Monday.

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  • Music News

Harrison Birtwistle, an influential English composer, has died at age 87

Known for his sonic brashness and unyielding artistic vision, Birtwistle was awarded a British knighthood in 1988. He was one of the U.K.'s most prominent composers for decades.

April 18, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Leif Ove Andsnes performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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Leif Ove Andsnes: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Hear the award-winning pianist offer two sides of Mozart's genius from inside the composer's own home in Vienna.

April 08, 2022
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  • Tom Huizenga
A March 24 dress rehearsal for "A Knee on the Neck." Front, from left: Mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale Music Director Piotr Gajewski, tenor Norman Shankle and baritone Kenneth Overton. Behind: The National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale, joined by members of The Washington Chorus and The Howard University Chorale.

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George Floyd remembered in new choral work

In "A Knee on the Neck," composer Adolphus Hailstork and librettist Herbert Martin pay tribute to Floyd's memory and offer hope for the future – while wrestling with the realities of the present day.

March 28, 2022
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  • Olivia Hampton
Composer, Mary D. Watkins, left, and librettist, Clare Coss, right, pose for a portrait at Ripley-Grier Rehearsals in New York, NY on March 17, 2022.

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Critics want to shutter a new opera about Emmett Till. Here's what its creators say

While the creators of a a new opera about Emmett Till hope it will inspire white people to confront racism, others worry it depicts Black trauma for white entertainment while masquerading as activism.

March 25, 2022
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  • Quincy Walters
Pianist Ruth Slenczynska, photographed in 2021. At 97, she just released her first record for the Decca label in nearly 60 years.

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At 97, Pianist Ruth Slenczynska has a new album — and plenty of stories

The ebullient nonagenarian's new recording features music she's been playing for nearly a century.

March 18, 2022
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  • Tom Huizenga
Daniel Hope performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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Daniel Hope: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Watch violinist Daniel Hope play Beethoven from the composer's own birth house in Bonn, Germany.

March 17, 2022
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  • Tom Huizenga
Lise Davidsen, performing in the title role of Richard Strauss' <em>Ariadne auf Naxos</em> at the Metropolitan Opera in Feb. 2022.

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Norwegian opera singer Lise Davidsen is on the verge of superstardom

The big-voiced soprano is in her mid-thirties, and she didn't even hear an opera live until she was in her twenties. Now, she's a sought-after opera singer.

March 14, 2022
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  • Jeff Lunden
Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev has condemned the invasion of Ukraine. His shows are still being canceled.

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  • Music News

A Russian pianist's shows are canceled, even though he condemns the war in Ukraine

Alexander Malofeev, 20, had already arrived in Montreal when a series of his concerts in Canada had been canceled.

March 14, 2022
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  • Bill Chappell
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