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Classical 101What knits us to the soul of another? It’s one of the central questions of life, and it is the central question of the Philadelphia-based The Crossing choir’s recording Born: The Music of Edie Hill and Michael Gilbertson, which invites us to consider how we walk with the creatures we encounter on our path.
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Classical 101The My Lai Massacre is one of the Vietnam War’s most notorious episodes. Now a new recording again brings awareness to the massacre and the U.S. Army officer who tried to bring it to a halt.
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Classical 101It has been said that life begins at 40. Columbus composer Sharon Udoh explores the upheaval of her life as a 40-year-old in a new musical work full of surprising twists and turns.
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Classical 101Donald Nally, artistic director of the Philadelphia-based choral ensemble The Crossing, has spent most of the last year reinventing how the choir works together and reaches its audience amid pandemic safety protocols.
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Classical 101It was a big idea – to commission an award-winning composer to write a splashy new percussion concerto that would be premiered right here in central…
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Classical 101“It was here, it was gone and it wouldn’t go away.”That’s how Columbus composer Sharon Udoh describes her experience of the year 2020.
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Classical 101It’s a fact both horrifying and sobering: an estimated 1.5 million children perished in the Holocaust.But those voices long silenced now ring on, thanks…
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Classical 101Children are at the heart of Christmas. And what better way to celebrate the holidays than with the wondrous voices of a world-class children’s choir?O…
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Classical 101“For me, making music felt inadequate.”That’s what noted pianist Simone Dinnerstein said about the days she spent in lockdown last spring, as the…
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Classical 101“At this performance, it was a kind of pandemonium afterwards. The audience wouldn’t stop cheering.”That’s how the noted pianist Gilbert Kalish recalls…