Conductor Thomas Wilkins leads music from the African Diaspora by Carlos Simon, Nathalie Joachim, David Baker, and William Grant Still.

Works by Scott Joplin, Julia Perry, William Grant Still, Bernard Herrmann, Raven Chacon, and Edgard Varèse.

Music from the 1800s to today to honor each of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

Highway 1, USA explores themes of family and sacrifice, with a compelling narrative of a couple striving to provide a better future for their son. Zemlinsky’s The Dwarf tells a dark tale of love and vanity. 

The orchestra’s slate of seven concerts will kick off in September with “Three Great American Symphonies.”

Marian Anderson, an acclaimed and boundary-breaking Black contralto, was born in Philadelphia in 1897.

This AMP season’s lineup showcases neglected repertoire in chamber, solo piano, and orchestral settings.

Operas from the 19th century to today that depict Black stories.

Host Terrance McKnight dives into the songs, cantatas, musicals, and librettos that flowed from Hughes’s pen.

A celebration of rich and diverse Black musical heritages.

Follow live on Sunday, February 4, as music’s biggest awards are given out!

Saxophonist Richard Brasseale and pianist Lillia Woolschlager perform music by DeCruck, Still, Piazzolla, and Brasseale.

Music director Ken-David Masur welcomes the Aaron Diehl Trio for Mary-Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite before conducting the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Milwuakee Symphony Women’s Chorus in Holst’s seminal The Planets.

Peruse the hopefuls for classical, jazz, soundtrack, and more!

The program begins with Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont and Fourth Symphony, followed by Still’s Mother and Child and Price’s Third Symphony.

Amir Hoshang Farsi, flute, and Yun Janice Lu, piano perform works by Samuel Barber, Charles T. Griffes, William Grant Still, and Lowell Liebermann.

Guest conductor Rafael Payare leads music by William Grant Still and Johannes Brahms before welcoming German soprano Dorothea Röschmann to perform Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder.

Need some music for a day at the beach? These classical plays are the perfect soundtrack as you’re catching rays.

A celebration of rich and diverse Black musical heritages.

Fast-rising violinist Stefan Jackiw joins guest conductor Jordan de Souza to perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, in a program that also features music by Leonard Bernstein and William Grant Still.

A special program commemorating the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans

Kerry Frumkin welcomes flutist Kim Fleuchaus and pianist Heidi Mayer for a program that includes music by Lili Boulanger and William Grant Still.

Violinist Ariel Horowitz and pianist Alexa Stier play music by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Jessie Montgomery, Germaine Tailleferre, William Grant Still, and Béla Bartók, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

An intimate one act opera blending elements of blues, Romanticism, and musical theater by the ‘Dean of African-American Composers.”

Despite an upturn, William Grant Still’s music remains under-performed. We spoke to Judith Anne Still about her five favorite pieces by her father.