Tickets for the March 7 Classical Roots Celebration Gala and concert are available now at dso.org/classicalroots. With a legacy of honoring Black excellence in classical music and a program that ...

The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even... In July 1913, friends of the African British ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

Metro Creative Music can evoke profound emotional responses. It also can communicate and spread a shared message of hope or ...

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Our critic rounds up the brightest young things in the classical music world (and where to see them in concert) ...

M. Lamar’s recent performance “Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche,” which debuted at Merkin Concert Hall on March 19, begins with a loop of Jamie Foxx accepting his Oscar for Ray, saying, ...

Coleridge-Taylor was also deeply interested in African American musical themes, and his body of solo instrumental and chamber works to this end became prized by Black American classical musicians. "I ...

In July 1913, friends of the African British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor gathered in his hometown of Croydon, England, to lay a plaque on his grave in anticipation of the first ...