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We discuss the joys and privileges of honoring composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in the Catalyst Quartets first recording in a series commemorating Black composers.

Death of Classical begins its 2021 season in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.

Live performances coming back to University Musical Society Today 2:00 PM JCTC closes out Voices: International Theater Festival with La Caja, by the Barcelona-based Los Escultores del Aire. The play uses corporeal mime, dance and live music to tell a universal story about life in contemporary society.Stela Salinas Facebook Share ANN ARBOR, MI -- The University Musical Society is back for its 143rd season with live and virtual performances. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the group was unable to...

UMS President Matthew VanBesien Credit Peter Smith The 2021-22 UMS season will include a variety of in-person performances, as well as digital content, according to its president, Matthew VanBesien. The season will include a number of new “commissioned” performances, and the UMS president says the live performances will begin later than they usually do in a typical season. The first in-person event will be the Big Band Holidays with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra o...

Verdi’s Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. ** 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, wri...

From Staff Reports Check out the Championship Cup Series at NJMP MILLVILLE – New Jersey Motorsports Park will present the Championship Cup Series, motorcycle road racing, on April 24 and 25 on Thunderbolt Raceway, including ASRA Sprint Races and CCS Sprint Races. Two-day tickets are $20 per person with kids ages 12 and younger admitted free. NJMP is at 8000 Dividing Creek Road. For information, call (856) 327-8000 or visit NJMP.com. Enjoy the music at the Exit Zero Jazz Festival CAPE MAY – ...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, ca. 1905, photographer unknown (Public domain) The name Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) often appears on lists of African-descended composers, but in truth I don’t know that I’d ever heard any of his compositions, certainly not in live performance. Have you, Reader? A new CD has just appeared from Azica Records called UNCOVERED Volume 1 that is entirely dedicated to his music, and at 79 minutes’ duration, it’s a generous sampling. It contains three early wo...

The Clarinet Quintet is the high point of this introductory volume of Catalyst’s Uncovered series exploring Black composers.

Mitsuko Uchida, the Louisiana Philharmonic and a performance organized by Teju Cole are among the highlights.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was only in his early twenties and not long graduated from the Royal College of Music when his cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast