American composers

It was a fateful trip to the art museum.That trip decades ago, when Derek Bermel was just a kid - long before he became an award-winning composer and…

It’s jarring to hear a honking car horn. But on the streets of Paris, honking horns – like good wine, café au lait and the Gallic shrug – are just a part…

“I call it real American music.”That’s how Stephen Caracciolo, artistic director of the LancasterChorale, describes the program for An American Mosaic,…

Long before clarinetist Anthony McGill and flutist Demarre McGill launched coast-to-coast musical careers, as kids the brothers were each other’s musical…

Two brand-new musical works – involving cutting-edge technology and offering commentary on subjects as diverse as a brassy night in Vegas and the wild and…

It's simply too difficult to create a list of recordings made by conductor Leonard Bernstein that could be called "The Best of Lenny" or "The Definitive…

An eagle bone whistle. A sacred rattle. A singing turtle. A “love flute.”These are just a few of the ancient Native American instruments showcased in…

When the award-winning flutist and composer Katherine Hoover starts writing a new piece of music, she’s never sure where it’s going to go. And she’s okay…