Piece Of The Week (POW)

Each week will be highlighting a different piece of music literature by a diverse range of composers.

Berlioz used Shakespeare’s Romeo and Julliet as the basis of his romantic era music masterwork. The idea of using a story as composition...

As a member of the Cherokee Nation, I wanted to learn more about Native American composers in celebration of Native American History...

November is Native American History Month, so let’s learn some Native American history and protest music. The history of Native American...

Throughout the 20th century, music has been used to protest and fight for civil rights in the United States. By using art and a medium...

“Sometimes you need to change your taste” These are wise words from the late great Charles Earland, but who is Charles Earland? Charles...

No matter how you identify and no matter what you may hear throughout your life, you are accepted, you are beautiful, and you are loved.

Alternative Electropop Nu-Metal? Now that’s a genre of music you don’t see every day! Jazmin Bean, with their eccentric, creepy-cute...

“Give me reasons we should be complete You should be with him, I can't compete You looked at me like I was someone else Can't you see? I...

Julian Carrillo-- who exactly is he? While not as well known of a composer as someone like Beethoven, Bach, or Mozart, Mexian composer...

Music is a somewhat inaccessible industry to get into- instruments and lessons are expensive, and there are plenty of barriers for...

Even as his career took off and continues to grow to this day, Dudamel has never forgotten from whence he came. En el mundo de hoy, la...

“The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys...

When most people think about opera, they picture old men in powdered wigs singing glorious arias. While it is true that opera did...

"Contreras’s writing feels fun and serious, fractured and coherent, modern and traditional." Brandon Rolle New Classic LA Classical music...

The Gadfly Suite was fated from the beginning to become one of the most beautiful, yet tragic works ever written.

No matter where you are in your educational journey if studying music in college interests you, read on!

July fourteenth through July seventeenth-- for a trombonist like myself, that was the best week of my life. The International Trombone...

“I consider it the duty of every Mexican composer to ennoble his country’s music by giving it artistic form, attiring it in the garb of...

Classical music is known for dealing with the social climate of the period it was written in- Beethoven wrote about the fall of Napoleon,...