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Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Favorite Composers’ Habits?

Can you tell the procrastinators from the diligent workers? How did Stravinsky fix his writer’s block? Test your knowledge of composers’ habits with these 10 tricky questions!

Stephen Raskauskas | November 18, 2017

Video: 5 Questions with Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya

David Polk | November 16, 2017

“Only beauty with a capital ‘B’ can save the world,” Riccardo Muti Reminds High Schoolers

Stephen Raskauskas | November 16, 2017

How Do You Practice a Concerto Without an Orchestra? Pianist Kirill Gerstein Explains

Late opera star Jessye Norman’s US hometown honors her life

Associated Press | October 11, 2019

City officials of Augusta, Georgia, plan to name the street outside the arts school Norman opened in 2003 after the beloved soprano.

Panelist Sister Helen Prejean speaks while composer Jake Heggie listens in front of an audience at a Lyric Opera-held discussion

Video: Jake Heggie and Sister Helen Prejean Talk ‘Dead Man Walking’

Keegan Morris | October 10, 2019

"There are very few places... where people go to reflect as a community… The opera house, or the concert hall, is one of those sacred spaces..." observes composer Jake Heggie.

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VIDEO | Watch Mozart’s Requiem With a Día de Los Muertos Twist

Stephen Raskauskas | November 3, 2017

The Chicago Sinfonietta has made its Día de los Muertos concert a popular annual tradition, celebrating the music of Latin American composers and giving a New World twist to Old World classics like Mozart’s Requiem.

VIDEO | Pipa 101 with Wu Man

Stephen Raskauskas | October 31, 2017

"Surprisingly, people will come up to me after [concerts] and say, ‘Oh that sounds like a banjo! That sounds like a harp! That sounds like a guitar!’"

The Film Score: Music for Halloween

Michael San Gabino | October 30, 2017

Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael