Normally performers like U2 or Knight would be headlining such a show, but during the Kennedy Center event the honorees sit in the balcony and watch as their peers laud them and perform their works.
A copy of what’s being called Stephen Sondheim’s first original cast recording captures the legendary composer’s budding skills in a student-led musical while at Williams College in 1948.
In the days since the Club Q shooting, Colorado Springs’ LGBTQ community has worked to collect itself and forge ahead.
Broadway’s longest-running show has postponed its final performance by eight weeks.
Batiste will be adding White House entertainer to an already long list of roles.
Time once called Rorem “the world’s best composer of art songs,” and he was notable for his hundreds of compositions for the solo human voice.
The Recording Academy announced its 2023 Grammy nominations on November 15, 2022.
The progressive disease “has made it impossible to sing and not easy to speak.”
An NHL team with a Hollywood connection gets a new musical score, and it’s from Oscar and Grammy winner Hans Zimmer.
“I’ve never seen a jazz band like ours play with a marching band, where the actual music we’re playing is integrated into the music the band is playing,” Marsalis said.
Musicians Tomeka Reid (who is Chicago-based), Martha Gonzalez, and Ikue Mori are among the grantees.
“It was so evident to all of us that we could not keep silent any more,” said baritone Ilya Silchukou.
Ichiyanagi studied at The Juilliard School in New York and emerged a pioneer, using compositional techniques that incorporated traditional Japanese elements and electronic music.
“I have lived all my life in and through music, and I will continue to do so as long as my health allows me to.”
Brennan was an active and engaged leader, serving on nearly every committee of the WTTW-WFMT board.
Waters has expressed a sympathetic stance toward Russia in its war against Ukraine.
Sanders, who launched his career playing alongside John Coltrane in the 1960s, died in Los Angeles early Saturday.
The audience will include teachers, nurses, students, gay rights advocates, and others.
Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022, at the age of 96. In memoriam, we take a look at the royal monarch’s life through a musical lens…
Broadway’s longest-running show is scheduled to close in February 2023, less than a month after its 35th anniversary.
A link to the almost-vanished generation that fought World War II, she was the only monarch most Britons have ever known, and her name defines an age: the modern Elizabethan Era.
“Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision,” a palace spokesperson said.
German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt has died. The musician was diagnosed with cancer in February 2021 after tumors were found on his throat and liver, and succumbed to his illness on September 5, 2022.
The fate of the 2023 contest had featured in talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Seeger, a Harvard dropout who died in 2014 at age 94, wrote or co-wrote “If I Had a Hammer,” “Turn, Turn, Turn,” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.”