An introduction to the dream and message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—created especially for young listeners. With music by more than a century of Black composers including Florence Price, William Grant Still, Undine […]
Troubled by the onslaught of killings of unarmed Black men, Emmy Award-winning composer Joel Thompson wrote his Seven Last Words of the Unarmed in 2015, after finding Brooklyn-based journalist and artist Shirin Barghi’s #lastwords project […]
The program includes the rescheduled and highly anticipated world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s (a McKnight fellow) work celebrating women’s voices and written in commemoration of the centenary of women’s suffrage. Featuring illuminated portraits […]
The program includes the rescheduled and highly anticipated world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s (a McKnight fellow) work celebrating women’s voices and written in commemoration of the centenary of women’s suffrage. Featuring illuminated portraits […]
Marin Symphony's favorite Joyce Yang returns for Tchaikovsky’s beloved 1st Piano Concerto, along with colorful masterpieces by Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) and Igor Stravinsky. Date & Time: […]
Conducted by Tito Muñoz and Eugene Rogers (ACF's ChoralQuest series editor), the concert will feature 2015 Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient soprano Janai Brugger in a program including works by […]
The program includes the rescheduled and highly anticipated world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s (a McKnight fellow) work celebrating women’s voices and written in commemoration of the centenary of women’s suffrage. Featuring illuminated portraits […]
Marin Symphony's favorite Joyce Yang returns for Tchaikovsky’s beloved 1st Piano Concerto, along with colorful masterpieces by Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) and Igor Stravinsky. Date & Time: […]
Symphony of the Mountains’ Woodwind Quintet will play works by Gunther Schuller (a BandQuest composer) and Appalachian music by regional composer Greg Danner followed by the delightfully intriguing “Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio” by Claude Bolling featuring SOTM’s principal cellists Mathew Wilkinson. Date & Time: Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 7:30 PM CT […]
The “eloquent, enthralling” Horszowski Trio (Boston Globe) is one of the most widely admired American ensembles, with an expanding reputation abroad; they gave a sold-out performance at London’s Wigmore Hall in 2019. The Trio is joined by violist and Harlem Symphony Orchestra director, Amadi Akizawe, for Dvořák’s luminous Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, heard alongside […]
Billie Holiday is one of jazz’s most important figures, many are familiar with her music and the infamous story of Strange Fruit but not many know the context of the story and what makes Holiday one of the US’s artist-activists and civil rights champions. In this month's Equity Study Group, we will discuss Lee Daniel's […]
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra announced a 2021-22 season replete with new collaborations and a healthy balance of contemporary curiosities and cherished chestnuts from the orchestral repertoire. Manfred Honeck conducts The Firebird on Friday February 11, 2022 - Sunday, February 13, 2022, along with Kian Soltani, cello. Erwin Schulhof: Five Pieces, Schumann: Concerto in A minor […]
