Featured Composer: Halim El-Dabh
Halim El-Dabh (1921-2017) was a composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator. Born in Egypt, El-Dabh originally studied...
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Mar 21, 2021
Featured Composer: Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) was a French composer whose career was tragically cut short by a lifetime of dealing with illness. Yet,...
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Feb 7, 2021
Featured Composer: Cécile Chaminade
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) was a French pianist and a prolific composer. She began her musical studies with her mother, but quickily...
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Jan 24, 2021
Feeling Seen in the Classical World
Every year, my mother would take me and my siblings to a concert at Orchestra Hall in Chicago. I would gasp in awe at the size of the...
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Jan 24, 2021
Thoughts & Conversations
Thoughts & Conversations offers a space for composers, performers, musicians, and educators to explore topics of their choice, from...
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Jan 2, 2021
Featured Composer: Luise Adolpha Le Beau
Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927) was a German composer, pianist, and teacher. Le Beau began her musical studies with her father from a...
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Dec 6, 2020
Featured Composer: Undine Smith Moore
Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989), is perhaps best known as an educator and as a co-founder the of Black Music Center at Virginia State...
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Nov 20, 2020
Featured Composer: Philippa Schuyler
Philippa Schuyler (1931-1967) was a pianist, composer, journalist, and author. Hailed as a child prodigy (and genius!), she made her...
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Nov 4, 2020
Featured Composer: Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Grammaté
Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Grammaté (1898-1974) is a Russian-born Canadian composer, pianist, and violinist. A largely self-taught composer,...
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Oct 7, 2020
Featured Composer: Harry Thacker Burleigh
Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949) is perhaps best known as both a baritone and a composer of art songs and concert spirituals. Burleigh...
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