Tom Huizenga
Stories
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Music
Meet Raven Chacon, the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music
A composer, performer and installation artist from the Navajo Nation, Chacon's winning piece, Voiceless Mass, was composed for a chamber orchestra and a specific Milwaukee pipe organ.
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A young, all-women ensemble upends the percussion paradigm
The members of Recap, four young women of color from New Jersey, have built a mission of gender equity into their striking debut album.
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Víkingur Ólafsson Wants To Change Your Mind About Mozart
On his new album, Mozart & Contemporaries, the deep-thinking pianist from Iceland aims to debunk the image of Amadeus as the giggling savant by contrasting his music with that of his peers.
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A Life Of Irresistible Creation: Marian Anderson In Songs And Pictures
The trailblazing singer, who broke the color barrier at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955, is remembered in a deluxe new release of albums and images.
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NPR's Classical Music Editor Previews 2 Albums You'll Want To Hear
Another member of the NPR Music team previews two of the albums he's looking forward to spending time with in 2021.
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Why Is American Classical Music So White?
Early American composers could have shaken off their European sound and mined the rich trove of African American music. They didn't. And one historian believes we're worse off because of it.
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Pavarotti Documentary Misses All The Right Notes
Ron Howard's new Pavarotti film fails to make us feel much for its subject, and does little to bolster the magical, complicated art called opera.
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How The 'New World' Symphony Introduced American Music To Itself
Sometimes it takes an outsider to see a culture clearly. Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's Ninth Symphony was an ode to what American music could become.
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Raising The Dead — And A Few Questions — With Maria Callas' Hologram
The legendary opera diva is on tour, as a hologram, with a live orchestra. But behind the dramatic music, truth and fiction are blurred.