C.M. Rubin interviews composer Joan Tower regarding upcoming performances by the Young People’s Chorus at Carnegie Hall of new works by distinguished composers. "It's not just about the best music curriculum in the world. The school system needs teachers

New York–based international concert organist and recording artist Gail Archer will play works ranging from Baroque to contemporary on the Casavant organ at St. Mary of the Lake Church in Gary. "Ascent," by composer Joan Tower, is one of the pieces Arche

Put University of Alberta writer-in-residence Richard Van Camp in a room with a dozen saxophones, upright bass and piano and what do you get? The truth is that nobody, not even the participants, is quite sure yet, even after a year of preparing for Sunda

Leonard Slatkin has always championed new American music. But in recent years, the 67-year-old music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra has broadened his gaze to include not only composers more or less his own age -- William Bolcom, John Coriglia