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Long a fixture of sci-fi film soundtracks, the theremin will sail through central Ohio this weekend when the Central Ohio Symphony and thereminist Caroline Scruggs perform the world premiere of the Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra by Linda Kernohan.

Columbus composer Mark Lomax, II’s new work Ubuntu musically embodies the tenets of radical humanity and offers a glimpse of a path to a better world. The Carpe Diem String Quartet performs Mark Lomax’s Ubuntu in WOSU Public Media's Performance Studio.

The world premiere of a work by Columbus composer Mark Lomax, the culmination of a major new music commissioning project and a return appearance in one of the world's top concert halls. Find our what Columbus' world-class Carpe Diem String Quartet has in store for the 2024-25 concert season.

Boston-based percussionist Matt Sharrock performs Time-Lapse, a concert of new music for solo vibraphone and electronics that explore in sound what it means for one person to speak – literally or figuratively – in a world that may or may not be listening.

On July 4, 2022, a shooter opened fire at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Ill., killing seven and injuring 48 others. The incident inspired community leader Joanne Bernstein to commission Chicago-based composer Stacy Garrop to write a piece of music that could bring solace to the community.

The threads of childhood experience and cultural identity will be woven into a tapestry of sound in a concert of the Worthington Chamber Orchestra and the New World Singers of the Columbus Children’s Choir Sunday, May 5 at 5 p.m. in Worthington United Methodist Church.

Every building has a unique personality. The Overlook Hotel, the demonically possessed setting of Stephen King's novel The Shining, is now also the title character of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's recording of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec’s musical works inspired by architectural forms.

As part of a nationwide new music commissioning program, the Central Ohio Symphony will open its 2023-24 season with the Ohio premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain Suite.

Composer Michael Shapiro’s oratorio Voices joins poetry written by Sephardic Jews during the Holocaust, original music reminiscent of the sound world of the Terezin concentration camp and Jewish liturgical music in a testament to faith, hope and endurance.

The austere beauty of the Arctic and the rapid ecological changes in the region are the inspiration for Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing’s most recent recording, Arctic (Sony Classical). Featuring music inspired by the Arctic’s natural wonders, the recording is Hemsing’s love letter to the north and her plea to spare this region from the devastation that some portend for it.