William Grant News

The Music Institute of Chicago celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. through music and discussion via livestream January 16 and 17. Stephanie Shonekan will explore issues of race and identity in American music culture in a keynote lecture on Saturday, January 16 at 3 p.m. 

The New York Youth Symphony has announced the launch of new educational videos showcasing the history and works of composers from historically underrepresented communities.

The Sioux City Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2020-21 season! The 105th season includes a lineup of in-person concerts as well as exclusive streaming programming. 

On Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26 at noon, at www.bso.org/now, the Boston Symphony Orchestra continues its series of new BSO NOW online offerings with a program of works by Jessie Montgomery, William Grant Still, and Duke Ellington under the direction of Germeshausen BSO Youth and Family Concerts Conductor Thomas Wilkins—the second of 15 BSO performance streams under the banner title of Music in Changing Times.

Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced their new BSO NOW programming! Thursday,November 19, at noon: Ken-David Masur leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, From the New World, and Ives' The Unanswered Question; BSO musicians to be featured in chamber music performance of Florence Price's String Quartet in G.

Tonight, the 2020 Gateways Music Festival Finale Livestream Concert will feature the Traveling Through Time string quartet with Edward W. Hardy, violin (composer of The Woodsman); Candace Rembert, violin; Drew Alexander Forde, viola (social media influencer, ThatViolaKid); and more.

The 2020 Gateways Music Festival Finale Livestream Concert will feature the Traveling Through Time string quartet with Edward W. Hardy, violin (composer of The Woodsman); Candace Rembert, violin; Drew Alexander Forde, viola (@ThatViolaKid); Thapelo Masita, cello; and the Gateways Brass Collective with Courtney Jones, trumpet; Herb Smith, trumpet; Eric Davis, French horn; Isrea Butler, trombone; Richard White, tuba.

Marcus Roberts and The Modern Jazz Generation will join the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) to offer United We Play, a short film to be available on ASO's new streaming platform ASO Online, starting at 5 PM EST on Wednesday, December 9.

Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced their upcoming programming including newly recorded videos launching in November and December, plus Music In Changing Times and more.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra are uniting for a concert to support Project Unity on November 11, 2020.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) announced a bold 2020–21 season full of historic company firsts, from a diverse line-up of dynamic, digital performances during the winter months to an open-air Festival Season in Spring 2021.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has announced NJSO Virtual 20-21, a season of free digital experiences, from broadcasts of virtual orchestral concerts led by Music Director Xian Zhang at NJPAC to solo and chamber performances in iconic New Jersey locations to collaborations with fellow New Jersey arts organizations.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis announces adventurous season of streaming and out-door opera.

MusicaNova Orchestra returns this fall with live and streamed performances. The schedule includes a variety of programs from the 'appetizer' of a fascinating piece for nine trombones - played by a single musician - to launch the fall season in November.

Providing another platform for the LA Phila??s SOUND/STAGE series of concert films, Classical KUSC radio will broadcast excerpts from the first three episodes on air from October 20 through 28 at 6pm, with complete audio from each concert posted to kusc.org after that episodea??s excerpts have aired.

Bloomingdale School of Music has announced the Faculty Concert Series as part of the School's Community Music Events on October 9, 23, and 30, 2020 at 7pm via Zoom. The concerts, free and open to the public, feature themes of South American Sounds on October 9, Music With A Voice on October 23, and Musical Imageries on October 30.

Members of the American Symphony Orchestra Will Perform on the Morris Museum's Back Parking Deck, Saturday, October 17th at 6pm.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic returns to Power to the People! in the third episode of its SOUND/STAGE media project of concert films, Friday, October 9, at 10am. The LA Phil's Power to the People! festival, curated by Creative Chair for Jazz Herbie Hancock, was cut short earlier this year by COVID-19. Because the issues explored by the festival remain pervasive, the LA Phil chose to revisit its themes and take the opportunity amplify the voices of Black artists.

San Francisco Conservatory of Music announces its Fall 2020 concert series, launching September 28 and featuring an expansive line-up of free live-streamed performances. While SFCM's concert halls and campus are closed to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, this digital concert series will bring performances from SFCM's talented students, renowned faculty, and accomplished alumni directly to audiences around the globe.  

A string quartet featuring members of the esteemed American Symphony Orchestra will perform a program of works by Black composers as part of the Morris Museum's outdoor Lot of Strings Music Festival on October 17 at 6pm.