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UK to host 2023 Eurovision after Ukraine ruled too risky

The fate of the 2023 contest had featured in talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Stephen RaskauskasJanuary 23, 2017

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky Explains Her Holistic Approach to Learning Opera’s Most Demanding Roles

Stephen RaskauskasJanuary 19, 2017

10 US Presidents Who Changed Music in America, According to White House Historical Society Director Emerita

Associated PressJanuary 17, 2017

Bieito’s manager: Met decision ‘cruel and disappointing’

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

Associated PressOctober 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 MorrisOctober 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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Hear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak to Studs Terkel about his dream, the dangers of hate, and the power of love

Stephen RaskauskasJanuary 12, 2017

"Even though I lived in a Southern community where segregation and discrimination were part of our everyday lives, I always dreamed of a day when these conditions would not exist."

Hamburg’s spectacular Elbphilharmonie opens for 1st concert

Associated PressJanuary 12, 2017

The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester is playing music from the renaissance to the present, including works by Beethoven and Wagner and a new piece by German composer Wolfgang Rihm.

“High Priestess” or “Master of an Art of Singing”? Changing the Conversation about Mahalia Jackson

Stephen RaskauskasJanuary 11, 2017

Mahalia Jackson is undoubtedly one of the most influential singers of the 20th century. Learn about how musicians and music historians are changing the conversation about the "Queen of Gospel."

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