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Pass by a 7-Eleven in the city, and you might hear classical music pouring from the speakers outside — a tactic deployed by some store franchisees to shoo away loiterers. A former 7-Eleven at ...

Being a composer is a solitary gig, even in the best of times. And that feeling of isolation can be exacerbated for people of color working in classical music’s predominantly white spaces. But amid ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A celebration of Indian Classical Music unlike any other is happening in Chicago. The yearly "Ragamala" concert begins Friday night at the Chicago Cultural Center, and it goes all ...

Dr. Samantha Ege, a researcher, musicologist, concert pianist and author, joined Jewell Hillery on Sunday’s WGN Weekend Morning News to talk about her new book, “South Side Impresarios: How Race Women ...

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A few hundred onlookers watched raptly as the sounds of a violin and cello from The Confluence Quartet filled a one-block stretch of the Uptown neighborhood Saturday. From a small stage Saturday ...

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Onstage at Ragamala 2018, from left: Ganapathi Ranganathan on kanjira, Patri Satish Kumar on mridangam, and Saraswathi Ranganathan on veena Credit: Courtesy of the City of Chicago In fall 2013, ...

A group of Black classically trained musicians called D-Composed have made it their mission to celebrate the work of Black composers from the past, present and future. "The mission of D-composed is to ...