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Unsung Heroes of Uptown Promotes Connection in the Name of Community, Studs Terkel

“We don’t really spend much time talking to one another… you dig a little bit, and you’ll find something you never expected.”

WFMTSeptember 7, 2020

Quiz: What American Composer Are You?

Associated PressSeptember 5, 2020

Slow music: Chord change in Germany of 639-year organ piece

Keegan MorrisSeptember 2, 2020

COT Pivots to Digital, Expands Season

Feinstein, Midori, Perlman headline Carnegie Ukraine benefit

Associated PressMay 3, 2022

Soprano Angel Blue, mezzo-sopranos Denyce Graves and Isabel Leonard, and jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant will also appear on the concert.

Echoes of 2006: Jazz Fest returns to New Orleans for 2022

Associated PressApril 29, 2022

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is returning for the first time in three years.

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Mozart meets COVID-19: Finnish opera adapts classic piece

Associated PressAugust 28, 2020

“Covid fan tutte” is a satirical take on Mozart’s classic opera “Cosi fan tutte,” with an adapted contemporary story line that reflects the Nordic country’s coronavirus outbreak.

Watch Third Coast Percussion Perform Mesmeric Music by Devonté Hynes

Keegan MorrisAugust 28, 2020

The Grammy-winning ensemble performed music by Devonté Hynes from their new album, Fields.

Refuge from Silence: COT, Refugee Orchestra Return to Live Stage

Christian ThorsbergAugust 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.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff