As an openly gay black composer, Eastman broke the stereotypes in classical music's predominantly white and conservative ... met during their studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.
You may remember eagerly walking past the quaint little white picket fence ... the entrance to Blobbyland was the Liszt and Newt pub (known now as The Black Swan). Serving food and drink to ...
Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...
Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...
Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...
After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance ...
With the rollback of its DEI programs, Target folded like a cheap card table during an intense game of dominoes at the family ...
Tony award-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart firmly captures the exuberance and warmth of Armstrong and takes the audience through the famed musician’s life.
Mr. White, a close ally of President-elect Donald J. Trump, further strengthens the social media giant’s connections with the incoming administration. By Kate Conger Mark Zuckerberg said in a ...
The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.
Netflix’s Black Stories collection celebrates Black ... During the Civil War, white Southern farmer Newt Knight served in the Confederate Army as a medic. An abolitionist and pacifist, he ...
In her Celebrity Series debut, Avdeeva explored the virtuosity and experimentation of Liszt and Beethoven, two giants of the 19 th century, who were as famous as pianists as they were composers.