The University of Akron’s Celebrating African American Composers concert features works by leading Black composers performed by university faculty and students.

Music history has a funny way of remembering the loud voices while quietly shelving the revolutionary ones. We celebrate ...

An absurdist satire, a horror story, science-fiction, a historical drama, a black comedy: this year’s Oscar-nominated ...

There was a time not long ago in the classical music world when melody was considered passé. Young composers making their way through academia were encouraged to leave hummable tunes behind in favor ...

Springfield composer Phillip Roberts earned honorable mention for “Hocket Rocket,” an orchestral piece submitted in a ...

The French composer, Claude Debussy, is known as the first impressionist composer. He was born in 1862 and is often referred to as one of the most influential composers of the time. Some of his most ...

Jean Barraqué is a 33-year-old French composer who detests daylight, the concertgoing public (“Asses! Imbeciles!”) and his own music. His ambition in life, he explains, is “to live 60 years, more or ...

As he approaches his 80th birthday, composer Colin Matthews speaks about his 50-year contribution to British musical life ...