JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – The concert was set to start in a half hour. Chairs were in place and people had begun arriving. But Roderick Cox remained on the podium, coaxing out of the young players ...

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Clarence Frank has played in the Baytown Symphony for about 25 years, and in January he was named the orchestra's new music director and first African American conductor in its 53-year history, ...

Soon, the Minnesota Orchestra will fill an iconic church in Soweto. More than a place of worship, Regina Mundi Catholic Church has been the site of history — a home and organizing hub for those ...

Clarence Frank remembers first hearing the music of Beethoven in sixth grade. "I heard all of the instruments just coming together as one,” he said. “I was just thrown into another world, and my ...

Sebrina María Alfonso says that her love for music began at an early age, where it was nurtured during elementary school and cemented in the ninth grade. At the time, her Key West-based family picked ...

He was called “the Martin Luther King of music” by no less than ragtime piano giant Eubie Blake. But James Reese Europe‘s enormous contribution as composer, bandleader and champion of black musical ...

1 Michael Tilson Thomas, Longtime San Francisco Symphony Leader, Dies at 81 The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce the appointment Shantanique Moore ...

The last time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo came to Atlanta, she grooved across the Fox Theatre stage encouraging the audience at Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday celebration to move to the ...

The idea sounded simple enough. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra would sponsor a concert recognizing African-American contributions to classical music. But it was 1978. And this wouldn’t just be an ...

This weekend the Oregon Symphony presents a new piece called An African American Requiem by Portland composer Damien Geter. The piece features a choir singing traditional Latin Requiem texts, civil ...