Dvořák's "From the New World" was written during the Czech composer's visit to the United States in 1893.

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

Florence Price weaves African American spirituals, folk melodies, and classical traditions into a work full of warmth, vitality, and radiant beauty. Hear her Symphony No. 1 tonight on 91.1, 107.5 and ...

Discover the artistry of Allison Loggins-Hull at the Montclair Cultural Arts Series. A unique opportunity to enjoy local ...

The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even... In July 1913, friends of the African British ...

When nine students and a music professor set off on a fundraising tour from Fisk University in Tennessee in 1871, they had no idea what lay ahead. They just hoped their talents as singers and the ...

Anna Alejo is CBS News Colorado's Executive Producer of Community Impact. She works with the news team to develop more grassroots relationships and original content at the neighborhood and local ...

New research highlights how Antonín Dvořák’s embrace of African-American spirituals and folk traditions during his U.S. tenure helped forge a distinct American sound. His call for composers to ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites American ...