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Classical 101The Abeo Quartet is a rising star with a mission to perform the standard string quartet repertoire and works by underrepresented composers, including composers of color and women. Watch as the quartet performs the sublime first movement of Fanny Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E-flat in WOSU Public Media’s Performance Studio.
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Classical 101A new recording, American Counterpoints, sets two undercelebrated African American composers in counterpoint and brings to light a long-obscured musical masterpiece in its first commercial recording.
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Classical 101The Icelandic composer talks about the creative forces behind her distinctive music, her presence in the movie Tár and the "dome of energy" that fuels her country's artistic productivity.
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Classical 101Columbus’ resident early music ensemble, The Early Interval, brings the holiday season to a close with a Twelfth Night concert featuring exquisite music composed by women in the convents of 16th- and 17th-century Italy.
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Classical 101As the new concert season gets underway, composers and orchestra administrators say they are feeling a shift in whose music gets heard.
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Classical 101The new record label La Boîte à Pépites is dedicated to raising the profile of female composers whose works have been neglected.
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Classical 101It has been said that life begins at 40. Columbus composer Sharon Udoh explores the upheaval of her life as a 40-year-old in a new musical work full of surprising twists and turns.
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Classical 101On the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a much-neglected work by British suffragette and composer Ethel…
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Classical 101Six years ago, fifty bucks and an outside-the-box choir helped Caroline Shaw become the youngest person to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. Here's a look…
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Classical 101She was an African-American woman trying to make it in a white man’s world – and she succeeded, performing with world-class orchestras and winning three…