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Wolf Trap just announced its summer concert lineup, bringing a ton of major music acts to Vienna, Virginia.

Broadway veteran Jack Viertel is publishing his first historical novel, Broadway Melody. The book, which spans multiple decades of Broadway's history, will be published by Benzinger & Frank on April 2, 2024.

Argentina’s rich musical world is often subsumed, and so wrongly, under the single word “tango.” There’s so much more. All one has to do is utter the names Mercedes Sosa and Atahualpa Yupanqui, and whole genres of folk and traditional music come to mind.

David Patrick Stearns talks to leading pianists, singers and composers shaping the art song tradition for today

Today we’ll give a listen to two new albums documenting the Black experience—one by an African-British composer who was famous in his day and has lately experienced something of a comeback in the affirmative search for Black roots and representation.

LGBTQ musical artists really and truly will be a force to be reckoned with this spring and summer.

Now more than ever, the emphasis is on the "new" in the world of Classical & Choral music.

The Cleveland Orchestra's impressive January 18 Carnegie Hall concert of music by Schubert and Alban Berg showcased the ensemble's renowned string tone and

We last caught up with singer/songwriter George Mann a year ago when he released his CD The Coronavirus Sessions. In the midst of a worldwide pandemic whose outcome was uncertain at best, the album had an autumnal quality, or what I called “a wise, avuncular summing up,” almost as though conceiv...

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98, Schumann’s Liederkries, Op. 39, and Beethoven’s Aus Goethes Faust, Op. 75, No. 3. Register and view here until April 18. 8 pm ET: Tippet Rise Art Center presents Spring Festival. For the first day of Tippet Rise’s Spring Festival, two films have been captured at the DiMenna Center. The first features violinist Katie Hyun—founding member of the Amphion String Quartet—performing Vytautas Barkauskas’s Partita for violin solo. For the second film, Tippe...