How a collaboration between Anne Harris and Amanda Ewing is shining light on the history of Black luthiers in the United States.

Kristina and LaRob invite the all-Black music collective D-Composed into the studio for a live performance and a closer look at their mission: amplifying the music of Black composers and sharing that history with communities!

These musicians didn’t just navigate the classical and jazz realms… they transcended and redefined them.

“You could just take that first generation of migrants. You think about what came out of it musically. There is no genre that is untouched.”

Chicago hosts a vibrant and eclectic mix of concerts and performances to honor Black artistry. Check out these events to take part in the celebrations!

“A lot of young people feel like it’s not cool to carry a violin down the street. But, when you play the violin well with other kids who are like you, social acceptance begins to emerge.”

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the first Black musician to win the BBC Young Musician Award, is the soloist in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

Kristina and LaRob invite the all-Black music collective D-Composed into the studio for a live performance and a closer look at their mission: amplifying the music of Black composers and sharing that history with communities!

Concerts, festivals, and more to celebrate Juneteenth in Chicago.

Terence Blanchard’s stirring drama returns following its landmark company premiere in 2021, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green starring as Charles.

Armstrong is Oakland’s first music director since the unexpected death of Michael Morgan in 2021.

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

Just a few of the Black voices from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive.

Anthony Parnther leads the orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto, and works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and Valerie Coleman.

“It is rare, not only for a male singer who’s not a tenor, but especially a bass-baritone to be able to do this kind of concert with an orchestra like the Chicago Philharmonic.”

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the first Black musician to win the BBC Young Musician Award, is the soloist in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

For more than 60 years, the “First Lady of Children’s Folk Music” has used music to inspire and teach children around the world.

The Gateways Brass Collective, an all–African American quintet, was founded in 2018 to inspire artists from all backgrounds.

In 1963, Watts made his national television debut performing Liszt’s First Piano Concerto with Leonard Bernstein and the NY Phil.

Concerts, festivals, and more to celebrate Juneteenth in Chicago.

The American violinist comes to WFMT to share his new album—a collaboration with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra that showcases violin concertos by Max Bruch and Florence Price.

Bumbry was among the winners of the 1958 Met National Council Auditions. She had a recital debut in Paris that same year and made her Paris Opéra debut in 1960.

Belafonte stands as the model and the epitome of the celebrity activist. Few kept up with his time and commitment and none his stature as a meeting point among Hollywood, Washington and the civil rights movement.

The record’s nomination for best roots gospel album marks the first time a college marching band has been nominated in that category.

Sanders, who launched his career playing alongside John Coltrane in the 1960s, died in Los Angeles early Saturday.