When the first enslaved Africans landed on American shores in 1619, their musical traditions landed with them. Four centuries later, the primacy of African American music is indisputable, not only in ...

It may seem hard to believe, but it took awhile for Black Violin to realize its representational power. The Grammy-nominated duo — composed of string-shredding virtuosos Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste — ...

Twenty years ago, I got my first wake-up call to racism in my profession. A Black piano student asked me, “Are there any Blacks in classical music?” As a white concert pianist and teacher, I remember ...

What do you get when classical music meets hip-hop, plus a little R&B, funk and rock? The answer is Black Violin, playing at the Charleston Gaillard Center at 7 p.m. March 8. They'll be joined on ...

A free collaborative arts event is taking place this Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Everson Museum Plaza as part of Syracuse's ArtsWeek. You can see both a symphony perform and a film screen beneath the ...