Shortly after Antonin Dvorak arrived in the United States in 1892 — for a historic visit that resulted in the creation of his ‘‘New World’’ Symphony — he made a cursory remark to a Boston newspaper ...

The well-known Lithuanian pianist Darius Mažintas has performed on Kremenets Mountain in the liberated city of Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, playing works from the music cycle "Naive Music" by the Ukrainian ...

Nobody laughed when an 11-year-old Mozart sat down at the keyboard to play what one critic described as “the longest and most difficult pieces with impressive precision.” Performing next, her younger ...

Bottom line: Any classical music concert that mainly features the music of black women is a very good thing. This is a field with huge gender and race gaps, and they can’t be addressed solely by a ...

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Billboard Japan's Women in Music initiative launched in 2022 to celebrate artists, producers and executives who have made ...

American women spent decades fighting for the right to vote, and female composers provided the soundtrack for the suffragettes. A local musician and music professor has collected many of those songs ...

Bottom line: Any classical music concert that mainly features the music of black women is a very good thing. This is a field with huge gender and race gaps, and they can’t be addressed solely by a ...

Abraham Mendelssohn wrote to his daughter, Fanny, in 1820, saying his son, Felix, might make music his profession, but "for you it can and must be only an ornament." For generations, genteel ladies ...

Manhattan’s Town Hall was cold and empty one morning last week, as a small, dark-haired woman deposited her mink coat and shawl on a stage table, set up her metronome, covered her shoulders with a ...