For centuries, extraordinary musicians have inspired the same unsettling question: how could anyone become that talented?

WORCESTER — Balla Kouyaté inherited a family musical tradition that goes back centuries in the West African nation of Mali. Since coming to the United States in 2000 he's been sharing it in different ...

Hoff-Barthelson Music School's Spanning the Centuries Music Festival, celebrating music composed between 1750 and 1950, takes place Friday, March 6, 2020, through Sunday, March 15, 2020. The Festival, ...

On his new album titled c.1300-c.2000, the pianist begins with a medieval song by Machaut and ends with an étude by Philip Glass. Jeremy Denk's Musical Odyssey Through 7 Centuries Of Music Pianist ...

Terence Blanchard's “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” was staged by the Metropolitan Opera in New York in September 2021, becoming the first-ever opera by a Black composer to be produced by the company. In ...

Julia Bullock’s interests range far beyond singing lyric soprano roles at major companies around the world. Her intellectual curiosity and instincts for finding relationships between disparate sources ...

Jeremy Denk's new album c.1300-c.2000 traces seven centuries of classical music. Denk spoke with NPR's Melissa Block about the stories behind and within the album and how the language of music evolved ...