What do we possess today as “art”? A faked music, filled with artificial noisiness of massed instruments; a failed painting, full of idiotic, exotic and showcard effects, that every ten years or so ...

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Gateways Radio celebrates music without limits. We explore the rich legacy of Black composers across the 20th century, with works by William Grant Still, Jessie Montgomery, Errollyn Wallen, and ...

‘Alker writes with knowledge and understanding and her instinct for cultural cross-pollination is consistently engaging’ Musical sound worlds and styles converge, collide and coalesce in Elizabeth ...

Since the appearance of jazz in the early 20th century, jazz and classical have mostly lived on opposite sides of town, separated by tracks that most listeners won’t cross. This has long remained the ...

Music by Edmund Thornton Jenkins, an early 20th-century Charleston-born Black classical composer, is being brought to light for the first time almost 100 years after his death. Colour of Music ...

If the above photo does not look anything like a night of Mozart or Tchaikovsky, you're right. Enter 20th Century Classical music where some composers went into non-linear forms, chance and ...

Barrie Gavin: instead of attempting to illustrate music literally, he found visual equivalents with a beauty of their own - Dmitri N. Smirnov Barrie Gavin, who has died aged 89, was a prolific ...

In interviews and in its music, Radiohead tosses around references to 20th century classical titans Messiaen and Penderecki. So why shouldn’t classical musicians toss around a little Radiohead? That’s ...