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News Articles: Genre: Classical

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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  • National

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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  • Race

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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  • Music

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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  • Concerts

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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  • Music News

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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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Semyon Bychkov, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna, Austria in 2017.

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  • Arts & Life

As performing artists denounce or stay allied with Putin, history offers some lessons

While Russian artists and institutions grapple with how they are viewed internationally, American cultural organizations make what amounts to foreign policy decisions.

March 03, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
A still from "We Hold These Truths." Music for the new opera was composed by Tamar-kali, and director dream hampton put that music to film, for the LA Opera's Digital Shorts series.

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  • Performing Arts

New opera teaches a classical music class in the ongoing fight for civil rights

Tamar-kali, who composed the music for Mudbound and Shirley, has a new project: an opera that you can watch online.

March 03, 2022
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  • Tim Greiving
Soprano Anna Netrebko, performing in Vienna, Austria in 2019.

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  • Arts & Life

Anna Netrebko, a Russian star tied to Putin, is out at the Metropolitan Opera

The famed New York opera house said Thursday that the soprano will not appear there this season or next, after she declined to distance herself from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

March 03, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
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