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Dear Young Person: No doubt you are learning very quickly the seriousness of your reprehensible and hateful act of anti-Semitism. You will come to understand the pain and agony you have caused. Please be sure to listen very carefully to the Authorities and find a Holocaust survivor who will share with you what a swastika really means. Today I invite you to read my thoughts: You are a young man and have your whole life ahead of you. You still have every opportunity to make a difference in the lives of so many people. How do I know this? I have never met you! The answer is simple. Every human b...

Virtual virtuosos: Alton Symphony Orchestra presents season's last concert Vicki Bennington For The Telegraph April 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Jay Lipsutz, second place winner of the Marie Stillwell Concerto Competition.Submitted photos|For The TelegraphShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Maestro Shane Williams leads the Alton Symphony Orchestra during a previous live concert.Submitted photos|For The TelegraphShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6 Members in Alton Symphony Orchestra are dedicated to making music for the community.Submitted photos|For The TelegraphShow MoreShow Less 5of6 Alton Symphony Orch...

Antonín Dvořák enjoyed near universal popularity in the United States by the time he arrived in New York in September 1892 to lead the National Conservatory of Music. The conservatory’s founder had great hopes his stewardship would elevate the institution to rival those of Europe, while others believed he could help the country’s classical music culture develop its own voice. Dvořák came to believe that “Negro melodies” should form the basis for a distinctly American classical style. He was not the first to say so. But the Czech composer’s outsized stature and outsider status r...

By David Fleshler Florence Price’s Piano Quintet and selections from her String Quartet No. 2 were performed by members of the New World Symphony. A pillar of the musical establishment shared the New World Symphony’s program Saturday with the first African-American woman to have a work performed by a major orchestra. Johannes Brahms needs no introduction, although the program drew from youthful works that showed he was pretty serious even then. The other composer was Florence Price, who grew up in segregated Little Rock, Arkansas, earned two degrees from the New England Conservatory of M...

Ruth Ann Dailey: Ode to joys recovered? Ruth Ann Dailey © Provided by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette This was supposed to be Ludwig van Beethoven’s year. Music organizations around the world had queued up stupendous programs to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the great composer’s birth. The exact date is unknown, but he was baptized on Dec. 17, 1770, and concerts this week would have crowned a yearlong celebration. A pandemic upended those plans. Beethoven himself would not be surprised by this calamity. You could argue that every year is Beethoven’s year. His music has ...