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As the new concert season gets underway, composers and orchestra administrators say they are feeling a shift in whose music gets heard.

The young rising violin star not only makes his instrument sing, he offers music by composers of color.

Vienna is famous for decorated symphony halls and its ornate opera houses. Now meet the newest ensemble in town—the Vegetable Orchestra. You’ll hear carrot flutes and a leek violin in this podcast called Sense of Place.

The new record label La Boîte à Pépites is dedicated to raising the profile of female composers whose works have been neglected.

Hear the towering – and polarizing – author in conversation about his 4,000-page book, The Oxford History of Western Music.

A new project conceived by Lebanese American tenor Karim Sulayman recasts baroque music that by turns demonizes and exoticizes Arabs and Muslims.

Watch a world premiere performance of choral songs built on texts from important Washington women, from Kamala Harris and Condoleezza Rice to Eleanor Roosevelt, Elena Kagan and Abigail Adams.

Vijay Gupta was a 19-year-old violin prodigy when he joined the LA Philharmonic. Now he runs Street Symphony, an organization bringing music to clinics, jails and homeless shelters on Skid Row.

This Juneteenth, pianist Lara Downes remembers the freedom that has been hard fought and hard won.

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

The ebullient nonagenarian’s new recording features music she’s been playing for nearly a century.

On a new album, the classical stars revisit the concerto Williams composed specifically for Ma, as well as some of Williams’ most affecting film scores.

Gentle music from the bucolic English countryside pervades this tranquil Tiny Desk (home) concert by Roger Eno, with a special appearance by his two daughters.

A pianist widely admired by his fellow artists, Radu Lupu was known for his interpretations of Brahms, Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven, among others. Lupu retired from performing in 2019.

The bureau said previously that it believes the census results are “fit to use” for reallocating each state’s share of congressional seats and Electoral College votes, as well as redrawing voting districts.

The world-famous cellist made a personal stand with Ukraine on Monday, setting up his instrument on the sidewalk in Washington, D.C., next to an improvised street sign reading, “Zelensky Way.”