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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe will serve as the festival's inaugural director.

New oratorios about women’s suffrage and the labor movement make their way to Bay Area concert halls.

Tony Award nominee Bryce Pinkham and Lizan Mitchell will join Audra McDonald for the Broadway premiere of Ohio State Murders by Adrienne Kennedy.

The Pulitzer-winning, MacArthur "genius" co-founder of Bang on a Can looks for the grit in music, whether she's writing a string quartet or one of her history-based oratorios.

Belgian-born cellist, singer, composer Helen Gillet has been described as a "whirling dervish of the cello." Gillet brings her diverse, eclectic sounds to the Foundry in West Stockbridge, Mass. on Saturday at 7:30. Gillet calls herself a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist exploring synthesized sounds, texture, and rhythm using an acoustic cello. Her music ranges from French chanson of the 1940s, to Belgian folk tunes sung in Walloon, to a mix of rock and punk from the likes ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and MacArthur Fellow Julia Wolfe will launch her residency as Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair for the 2021–2022 season on February 16 with the digital premiere of Oxygen.

Music tells a story: it can deliver a narrative to the listener with a fully formed plot, it can tell the story of an emotion, of a concept, or of a moment in history. Take any given setting of the Requiem: on the surface, requiems are settings of the traditional Catholic Mass for the dead. The story could be as simple as that: religious text that has been set to music. One peak beyond the surface, however, shows composers facing mortality and grief. For example, Mozart ...