Spirituals will be on the lunch hour concert menu today. This genre originated among the black slaves in the US and is known ...

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

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

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

FOLIE Á DEUX’s dismal box office debut, the movie has continued its historic dive, dropping 90% from its opening weekend.

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...