diversity in classical music

A Tempo this Saturday (5/21 at 7 pm) features an interview with composer, performer and installation artists Raven Chacon, a Dine composer from the Navajo Nation, whose work "Voiceless Mass" received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music.

George Marriner Maull is joined by the American String Quartet to explore the effervescent first movement of String Quartet No. 5 by Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

A Tempo this Saturday (4/30 at 7:00 pm) features an interview with Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, who performed this week at Princeton University Concerts and met with music students at Trenton Central High School.

Maps can show us the way forward, and this week's A Tempo (3/5 at 7 pm) highlights the Kennedy Center's "Cartography Project", a series of commissions that celebrate Black dignity and remember some of the lives lost to race-based violence.

This week's A Tempo (Feb. 26) looks at programs by the Early Music Access Project and Early Music America to highlight the role of musicians of color in creating and performing Early Music.

An upcoming performance presented by the Raritan Players features the music of Ignatius Sancho, a Black composer, writer and abolitionist in 18th-century…

A Tempo wraps up its series looking at the return of choral ensembles to live performances for the holiday season this Saturday (12/18 at 7 pm) with an…

When students at the Special Music School at Kaufman Music Center wanted to learn more about Florence Price, they found little accessible material. Price,…

As opera returns to the stage post-pandemic, there are continued efforts to bring new voices and new works to the stage. A Tempo this Saturday (10/30 at 7…

Among the works that expand the diversity of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's programming this season are a pair of compositions by Joseph Bologne…