Presenting AfroClassical Composers, a new non-profit organization founded to celebrate the contributions of African-American, and other African Diaspora classical music composers will present its ...

Although few people can name even three black classical composers, the Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine can name 350. Pine’s RBP Foundation Music by Black Composers (MBC) project has ...

It was 1989, and Helen Walker-Hill, a member of the piano faculty at the University of Colorado in Boulder, was working on a book titled "From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women ...

Counterpoint, Vermont’s professional vocal ensemble, is well known for its performance of African American spirituals and folk music. For its March program, rather than focusing on genres typically ...

The first thing to know about "Black Keys: The Evolution of the Black Classical Arts" is that the concert is sold out. That happened more than a month ago, leaving only the slim hope of a wait list ...

Olly Wilson, an adventurous composer who integrated African, African American and electronic rhythms, riffs and sounds into Western classical music conventions, died March 12 in Oakland. He was 80.

Musicians of the African American Composer Initiative perform during a previous AACI concert at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto. Courtesy AACI. The endeavor to challenge the limiting way in ...

The American classical music vernacular would never be complete without the catalogs of great composers like William Grant Still, Florence Price, and George Walker. But even so, Black voices have been ...

A Baptist church in West Philadelphia will premiere new music by four African-American composers working in the vein of Leonard Bernstein. Nolan Williams Jr. is the curator of the Philadelphia ...

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Seattle is a city that likes to experiment. From big tech to bold coffee, glass gardens to snow-capped mountains, Seattleites like to think outside the box — heck, even our hot dogs are a little ...