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Clad in a patterned red-black suitcoat, Jaden Teague-Núñez strikes the steelpan with dynamism and athleticism

Steelpan Player Jaden Teague-Núñez Wins 2024 CSO Young Artists Competition

Teague-Núñez is the first steelpan soloist to enter — much less win — the competition.

WFMT | July 11, 2023

Northwestern’s Music Series Returns with Chamber Music, Piano, Guitar Luminaries

Associated Press | July 4, 2023

Grammys CEO on new AI guidelines: Music that contains AI-created elements is eligible. ‘Period.’

a yellow and red car zooms past a waving black and white checkered flag

Keegan Morris | June 30, 2023

Playlist: Loud Classical Music

How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor became Halloween’s theme song

Associated Press | October 30, 2023

The music of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue owes much of its spookiness to the drama it employs.

The Beatles, 1965, pose together with their instruments

The last new Beatles song, ‘Now And Then,’ will be released next week

Associated Press | October 26, 2023

The song was written and recorded in sketch form by the late John Lennon in the late 1970s. McCartney, Starr and the late George Harrison worked on it in the 1990s but were stymied by technical limitations.

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Riccardo Muti becomes Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s music director emeritus for life

Associated Press | June 23, 2023

The announcement was made on the stage of Orchestra Hall on Friday night after a performance of Beethoven's “Missa Solemnis,” the start of Muti's final subscription weekend as music director.

Tony-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ creator, dies at 99