With nine Oscar wins, Alfred Newman remains the most honored composer in Academy history. From sweeping romance to epic ...

While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

Portrait of who is believed to be Raffaella Aleotti, and illuminated manuscript with a musician of color. Soloists, Instrumentalists and Co ...

Raven Chacon, the first Native American composer to win a Pulitzer Prize, will debut his first piece for full orchestra with ...

Fanny Mendelssohn was never lost. But she’s certainly been found. Including by violist Laura De St. Clair and the NouLou ...

Franck Vigroux is on tour from rural France, stopping at 6 p.m. Feb. 21 at the University Galleries. Our music columnist reviews his latest album and 1980s influences.

Marianne Faithfull was just 17 when she released her debut single, this wistful-beyond-its-years British Top 10 hit written ...

Shakespeare did not write musicals as we know them in the Broadway or West End form, closer now to his English roots. But incidental music, most often played ...

In 1933, Chicagoan Florence Price became the first Black woman to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra.

Morgiane, perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American, finally receives its full public performance, shedding light on the ...

Born in a small Nile Delta village, Umm Kulthum rose from humble beginnings to become the most celebrated voice in the Arab ...

"Krone" columnist and author Robert Schneider recently made a new discovery in the art of music: Swedish singer and multi-instrumentalist Gunhild ...