The HB Compose Yourself! Project, Hoff-Barthelson's annual composition Master Class for young composers, takes place on Saturday, March 2, 2024, from 1:00-5:00 pm at the School, 25 School Lane, ...

First-year composition courses, which are required of incoming students at many colleges and universities, lack cachet. No student gets excited about a comp class, and the faculty who teach these ...

More information: The showcase includes concert readings of four newly written orchestra pieces by Aspen Music Festival and School composition fellows, performed by the Aspen Conducting Academy ...

The energy and creativity of the mass worker of 1969 was to bubble over into the early 1970s as the years of 'permanent conflictuality'. It was a time when tens of thousands of working people engaged ...

Professor Bright Sheng has lived through two cultural revolutions. The horrific Cultural Revolution in Mao’s China saw the composer’s childhood piano dragged away by Red Guards, while the revolution ...

A new classical music composition program has changed the lives of a number of inmates serving time at a Bay Area jail. They recently gathered to listen to performances of pieces they composed ...

A professor of music at the University of Michigan is no longer teaching his undergraduate composition class following controversy over his decision to show a movie featuring a white actor in ...