Category: NPR Music: Classical

Two adventurous musicians trace the history of their fruitful collaboration in a set of pieces both ferocious and beautiful.

Music can shift, uplift or even subvert a scene. This week on 8 Tracks, we play music supervisor, imagining songs by Kamasi Washington and Carin León on the big screen.

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Grammy-winning baritone Will Liverman about his latest album — Show Me The Way — honoring women in classical music, past and present.

The Apollo Chamber Players in Houston, Texas, create concerts in response to book banning, the refugee crisis, the war in Gaza and other world events. Thousands of people attend their performances.

A new album, American Counterpoints, reasserts the importance of two 20th century Black composers whose work has been neglected.

A fictional tale of the real-life Jewish community in Shanghai during World War II — with a cross-cultural love story at its heart — is premiering at the New York Philharmonic on Thursday.

The Los Angeles-based harpist and composer talks about approaching her instrument in new ways on her debut album.

Poet Amanda Gorman and German cellist Jan Vogler combine poetry and Bach’s cello suites at New York’s Carnegie Hall to share the “lows and highs” of human experience.

On Feb. 12, 1924, a sassy fusion of jazz and classical music debuted in New York, sparking a mutual exchange of ideas still debated today.

The pioneering Japanese-American conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly decades died Tuesday.