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It’s often—not always, but often—interesting to read what composers have written about composing—especially if they’re good writers. Aaron Copland was an…

“Music…embraces at once the real and the ideal… "

In North America, antlion larvae are sometimes referred to as doodlebugs because of the strange marks they leave in the sand.

Though the songs of the song cycle are all individual entities, they’re designed to be heard together.

Performers are always seeking the most effective and compelling ways to bring a composer’s musical ideas to life. I stress the plural, “ways,” because there’s never just one way.

In Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands (USC Press, 2021) musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah/Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten. Crawford talks with Walter Edgar about his work, which focuses primarily on South Carolina's St. Helena Island, illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s.

In The Barber of Seville and his many other operas, Gioacchino Rossini gave singers plenty of opportunities to show off their talents. But in a letter he…

Mozart, they say, could compose music while he was playing billiards. Rossini wrote that he had once composed an overture while standing in the water…

“K” is for King, Susan Dupont Petigru (1824-1875). Author.

The first American Arbor Day was originated in Nebraska City, Nebraska by J. Sterling Morton.[2] On April 10, 1872, an estimated one million trees were…