Harry Connick Jr. will premiere a composition for the 100th anniversary of his mother’s birth for Carnegie Hall’s 2025-26 ...

Perhaps all great music counterpoints and comments on the times, but Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra have ...

This is the earliest of Wagner’s operas to form part of the regular repertory, retelling the ancient mariner’s tale of an accursed sea captain condemned to roam the seven seas until judgement day, ...

1899: Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, grandson of Queen Victoria, dies aged 24 in mysterious circumstances. On the same day, the ...

In honour of Black History Month — as you will notice on these pages… if you haven’t already — this Thursday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m ...

Even though there’s no shortage of contemporary opera around, we all still long for the rediscovery of a delightful operatic ...

Black composer Will Marion Cook wrote the music ... The Black performing duo Williams and Walker (Bert Williams and George Walker), famous for their work in vaudeville theater, starred in the ...

BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday, it is only available in the UK.

Now, for the first time, this lost music – composed by prisoners – will be heard again, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of British composer Leo Geyer. The Lost Music of Auschwitz follows ...

Today – Gideon Klein. Show more Composer of the Week marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz with a series commemorating some of the musical voices that were silenced by the atrocities ...