Tazewell Thompson's "Jubilee," about Fisk University's Jubilee Singers, has its world premiere at Seattle Opera.

Al Jolson turned personal family drama into the grist for his star turn in “The Jazz Singer.” ...

Director Tazewell Thompson has taken an a capella musical he created in 2019 about the original Fisk Jubilee Singers and ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center is offering the world premiere of a new jazz oratorio "Rustin in Renaissance," a tribute to the Civil ...

Experience the New West Symphony's presentation of Dvořák's 'New World' Symphony with visuals by Joseph Sohm and narration by ...

For the first time, traditional Negro spirituals will be sung as an opera, when Seattle Opera hosts the world premiere of ...

Catch up with Markel Reed to find out more about him, his concert, and what he is looking forward to about being in Newport.

Les Reagan is a well-known Augusta musician. He is the founding director of The Augusta Broadway Singers (TABS). Now, he has ...

Spirituals came out of the cargo holds that brought enslaved people from Africa, helped sustain them as they worked long hours in hard conditions, served as a balm when tragedy struck their ...

A sea of red and notes of musical blues fill the fifth floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Curtains drawn across the ...

When nine students and a music professor set off on a fundraising tour from Fisk University in Tennessee in 1871, they had no idea what lay ahead. They just hoped their talents as singers and the ...

The Terry Buffington Foundation’s second-anniversary fundraising gala will be held on Nov. 1 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts ...