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Donald 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.

It 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…

“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.

It’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…

Children 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…

“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…

“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…

Columbus’ annual VIVO Music Festival kicks off this week and, like just about everything else this year, it looks a little different.In the midst of the…

The story of Desbrosses Street, in Lower Manhattan, is a story of a warehouse district turned into apartments, of people taking up residence in the once…

“My God, I can really feel the fabric of society tearing.”That thought haunted Eric Whitacre as he saw the effects of the coronavirus pandemic in its…