The American Composers Orchestra has revealed its 2024-2025 season highlights. This upcoming season brings ACO's annual series presented by Carnegie Hall, including The New Virtuoso: Borders, led by ...
American pianist and composer Chloe Flower is on a mission to get young people into classical music. She’s doing it by ...
Encompassing all of ACO's composer advancement initiatives, EarShot is the first ongoing, systematic program for developing ...
You could call the new album American Counterpoints another encouraging result of the push in recent years, especially after the start of the Black Lives Matter movement, to better represent and ...
George Frederick Bristow, born 200 years ago this month, struggled to find American champions of his music as orchestras ...
Three contrasting examples of this summer’s Aspen Music Festival Theme — “Being American,” pieces by American composers in a range of flavors — enlivened Sunday’s Aspen Festival Orchestra concert. The ...
The first time that pianist Sara Davis Buechner felt what she calls "the real spiritual power" of George Gershwin's music, she was 23 and building a reputation for virtuoso playing on the ...
In popular culture, it’s not often that classical music gets a spot in the proverbial spotlight. But more recently, two celebrated films have taken the subject up and earned critical and cultural ...
Perry was born in Lexington, Ky., in 1924, and launched her career in the early 1950s with the success of her choral work Stabat Mater. She won Guggenheim fellowships, studied with Nadia Boulanger in ...
A new album, American Counterpoints, reasserts the importance of two 20th century Black composers whose work has been neglected. Rediscovering the rigor of composers Julia Perry and Coleridge-Taylor ...