With four composers – three living, all women – Philippe Quint’s Milestones is a refreshing and much...
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A. Kori Hill
This sponsored article is part of a paid partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music. Teddy Abram...
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These days, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė is based in New York City, but she was born and raised in Lithuani...
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A. Kori Hill
I don’t need many reasons to enter a room filled with colored lights. It’s one of my favorite things...
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A. Kori Hill
Running from Sep. 24-29, 2024, Cincinnati’s inaugural Talk Low Festival featured local, regional, an...
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A. Kori Hill
The story of Bamako*Chicago Sound System (Aug. 23, FPE Records) begins in 2014: flutist-composer Nic...
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A. Kori Hill
I missed the “Yeehaw Agenda” era that dominated the socials a few years ago, so when the OLEA chambe...
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A. Kori Hill
As a child, Mazz Swift would introduce themselves as a violinist – even though they had never touche...
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A. Kori Hill
In July 2022, I reviewed Fierce for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. The commission by Cincinnati Opera feature...
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A. Kori Hill
In the oeuvre of composer and violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama (No-goo-TOO-lah En-gwen-YAH-ma), music ope...
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A. Kori Hill
Matana Roberts’ jubilantly experimental new album Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden deftly weave...
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A. Kori Hill
Awadagin Pratt does not stay still, but he doesn’t rush. Whether as a pianist, as an educator at the...
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A. Kori Hill
In Margaret Bonds’ 1965 cantata CREDO, her creative choices speak to the political, artistic, and sp...
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A. Kori Hill
Garrett McQueen stays busy. A performer; radio producer and host; lecturer on race, administration,...
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A. Kori Hill
There’s a common lament amongst animation heads: animation is a medium, not a genre. In some ways, o...
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A. Kori Hill
“History doesn’t repeat itself; but it does often rhyme.” Imma need to disagree with whomever said t...
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A. Kori Hill
“One of my favorite pieces written for viola and piano is A String Around Autumn by Tōru Takemitsu.
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A. Kori Hill
As a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and through her current career as a singer-song...
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A. Kori Hill
When I was a kid, I thought my sister and I were the only Black people playing violin in Cincinnati,...
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A. Kori Hill
The African Diaspora Music Project (ADMP) was established by Dr. Louise Toppin in conjunction with V...
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A. Kori Hill
BLUES BLOOD | BLACK FUTURE begins and ends with cooking. Sekai Abeni–one of four lyricists of the Ro...
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A. Kori Hill
Is it possible for Inuit-Western musical collaborations to be equitable and equal? The commission an...
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A. Kori Hill
If there is a defining characteristic of 21st century classical composition, it’s a blurring o...
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A. Kori Hill
