George Walker News

The film also includes performances of music by Ruth Crawford Seeger and George Walker, the first African-American composer to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and the sublime Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No.1, featuring Principal Cello Timo-Veikko Valve as soloist.

The Bard Music Festival returns for its 31st season this August, with a rare and intensive two-week exploration of “Nadia Boulanger and Her World.” In twelve themed concert programs, performed live with limited in-person audiences, Bard examines Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), the pioneering Parisian pedagogue, composer, conductor, pianist, organist and indomitable personality who shaped more than a generation of American musicians.

The University of Washington’s Meany Center for the Performing Arts has announced a return to live performance on October 13, 2021, with the beginning of the 2021–22 Season. Meany Center is inviting back to the stage many of the visiting artists whose performances were canceled due to the pandemic.

The biggest surprise about the surprise program at the Kennedy Center by the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction fo Gianandrea Noseda may have been that it was happening at all.

On Saturday, June 19th at 7pm, New Orchestra of Washington will present Juneteenth Celebration: Lift Every Voice! The performance will be held at the newly built, outdoor, Strathmore Patio Stage on the Trawick Terrace (10701 Rockville Pike), and will mark the first live audience performance for NOW since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Caroga Lake Music Festival is proud to showcase acclaimed local talent including Jocelyn and Chris, Girl Blue, Wild Adriatic, and North and South Dakotas, all making their CLMF debuts at Sherman's.

The National Symphony Orchestra has announced classical programming for the 2021–2022 season, its fifth season under the artistic leadership of Gianandrea Noseda. NSO Classical subscriptions for the 2021–2022 season are now available here or by calling (202) 416-8500.

With the 104th season, which marks the 20th season of the ensemble's acclaimed partnership with Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, the Orchestra will welcome audiences back to Severance Hall as a more flexible, innovative, versatile, and empathetic institution, strengthened by the lessons of the past 14 months.

New film adaptations of Poulenc's La voix humaine starring Patricia Racette and Henze's El Cimarron starring Sir Willard White presented alongside an Academy of Music production of Verdi's Rigoletto and a Verizon Hall concert pairing Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with George Walker's Lilacs

Today (May 12) in live streaming: a My Fair Lady reunion, Stars in the House celebrates David Katz, Vineyard Theatre continues its 2021 Spring Gala Series, and more!

The Ravinia Festival plans to reopen in July for the 2021 summer season. Now, the full lineup has been announced!

Tickets are now on sale for in-person and livestream concerts as part of Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's Spring Inspirations concert series.

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, May 1-2, 2021.

The Catalyst Quartet will return to Lot of Strings after a triumphant performance of their rendition of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 3 last Summer. On May 16th, the program will include two pieces by Florence Price, Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint and String Quartet  No. 2 in A Minor, and George Walker's Lyric for Strings.

The San Francisco Symphony returns to live performances on May 6 with a First Responders concert.

The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra will return to Orlando’s Festival Park to close out the 2020–2021 Season with An American Celebration, part of the OPO’s Pops Series, on Saturday, May 8. Music Director Eric Jacobsen will lead the orchestra in a season-ending celebration of America.

WQXR, New York City's classical music station, today announced the launch of a second season of “New York in Concert” — a guide to the city's classical scene featuring exclusive, locally-sourced performances, and the artists, ensembles, and institutions that make New York a leader in music. 

The New Jersey Youth Symphony announced today that it will hold auditions by video submission for the 2021-22 season. Audition registration for New Jersey's largest youth orchestra program, encompassing 15 ensembles including strings, winds, percussion, jazz, chamber music, and three full orchestras, is available online April 1-April 30.

Today, the Newport Music Festival announces the complete seventeen-concert schedule for its 53rd season, from July 4-20, 2021.

Enjoy live arts from the safety of the sidewalk, at Culture Windows this Friday, April 16 at 8 PM.