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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.

Scaling your business in the United States. Business consultant Matthew Lee Sawyer on how and why to bring your company to America.

The Chicago Symphony co-commission will be performed at Symphony Center this coming weekend.

"Donnie knew the message he was sending was a message his father did not want to hear," charged Mary Trump, who's the niece of the former president.

Maria Ressa, co-founder of the Philippines-based online news organization Rappler.com, and internationally recognized music composer Julia Wolfe will be honored on Alumni Day, Feb. 19, 2022.

DIVA publisher Linda Riley “both to celebrate lesbians and show solidarity with all LGBT+ women and non-binary people in our community”. So, what better way to celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week than by honouring lesbians who are proud, visible and making the world a better place for our whole community? Whether you’re a lesbian or not, take note of these incredible women-loving women. Billie Jean King. Seventy-seven-year-old former world-class tennis player who has used her platform to sp...

Joshua Kosman February 16, 2021Updated: February 16, 2021, 7:46 pm Bang on a Can founding artistic directors David Lang (left), Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe. Photo: Peter Serling Something possibly worth noting about the influential New York new-music behemoth Bang on a Can is that the name is, strictly speaking, a misnomer. There aren’t any cans, and there’s only a reasonable amount of banging. Yet the name, which evolved out of a throwaway joke in an early grant application...

Donald Trump and niece Mary Trump (Peter Serling via Simon & Schuster, Getty) Taking time out from issuing a blizzard of 11th-hour pardons, Donald Trump has asked a New York court to dismiss a case filed by his niece. Mary Trump, who published a tell-all book about her uncle in July, claimed the president and his siblings fraudulently cut her out of the family’s real estate fortune. But in a filing Wednesday, the president said the matter was settled in 2001, Bloomberg News reported. “Plain...