Like U.S. history, classical music has become a new front in the culture wars as musicians and music institutions grapple with the legacies of racism. With most performing arts organizations shuttered ...

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It offered a fount of tumultuous stories, ranging across three centuries of classical composers who happened to be black. First, Charles Ignatius Sancho, born on a slave ship in about 1729; and the ...

Classical music still has time to save itself from extinction. But how can the art form I love avoid the fate of the dinosaur and the dodo? First, it must admit it still has a diversity problem; ...

Lovers of classical music will get a chance to hear pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the instrument he and other eighteenth century Austrian composers used next week. MORE EVENTS Cherry Blossom ...