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Anguish of war permeates Boston Symphony’s 2022-23 season

The prestigious orchestra says its 2022-23 season will perform works that address the tragedies of armed conflict, racial injustice, civil rights, and gender inequity.

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Keegan Morris | August 29, 2019

Celebrate Art Song and Living Composers in Chicago and Beyond at this Three-Day Festival
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Matthew Byrd | August 29, 2019

Working for a Living: 5 Studs Terkel Conversations for Labor Day
Keegan Morris | August 28, 2019

Video: Watch Pianist George X. Fu Perform Works by Debussy and Beethoven

Refuge from Silence: COT, Refugee Orchestra Return to Live Stage
Christian Thorsberg | August 26, 2020
A collaborative performance with Chicago Opera Theater, the Refugee Orchestra Project, and conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya seeks to express the importance of refugee populations in American music and around the world.
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Thursday: Third Coast Percussion Plays Music of Devonté Hynes in WFMT Livestream
Keegan Morris | August 25, 2020
Join us on WFMT's Facebook Page Thursday at 7:30 pm for a free livestream with Third Coast Percussion, Devonté Hynes, and a video featuring choreography by Rena Butler.

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Cecilia Bartoli talks, again, of US return
Associated Press | August 23, 2019
"Mostly when you sing in the opera house you have this wall of sound in front of you and the only thing is to go and sing as loud as you can, and this is not making music," she said. "It's 80 against one, and you will never win."
Lost Saint-Saëns sonata: A page of the manuscript (courtesy of Juliette Herlin) with the work's composer (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Once Lost, Saint-Saëns Sonata Unearths a World of Artistic Possibilities
Keegan Morris | August 23, 2019
It’s not every day an artist can re-discover a piece of music by a master from the Romantic era. Yet this was the enviable privilege of cellist Juliette Herlin, who in 2017 gave one of the first performances since 1919 of a lost cello sonata by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Playlist: Classical Music From Composers’ School Days
Keegan Morris | August 22, 2019
Just because the school year is right around the corner doesn’t mean that you have to stop playing (or writing) music. As proof, here are 16 pieces from composers written when they were still students!
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