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Mark Malinowski traces the history of the piano, exploring how primitive keyboards and harpsichords evolved into the modern concert grand.

Terence Blanchard made history last season when his opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones was the first work by a Black composer staged by the Metropolitan Opera. And the Met has asked for more.

Do Orchestras Really Need Conductors? Exploring the Good, the Bad, and the Beat

A musical walk down memory lane.

"Music that stinks to the ear?" Mark Malinowski explores how critics originally panned masterworks by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Chopin.

Judith Krummeck explores how immigrant composers shaped American classical music—and how America changed them in return.