NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Givonna Joseph of Loyola University New Orleans and Gwen Thompkins of WWNO radio about the influence of opera on jazz music. And that is Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz ...

LEAVE ME ALONE!, A JAZZ OPERA BY HARVEY PEKAR AND DAN PLONSEY, TO PREMIERE AT THE OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND VIA WEBCAST ON JANUARY 31, 2009 American Splendor Icon Pekar Focuses His Sardonic ...

Both dive deeply into undeniable relationships between notes and truth. Both know when to follow a brilliantly written script and when to be fearless enough to embrace deconstruction and the deeper ...

In September of 2021 at the Metropolitan Opera's gala opening night, the curtain rose not on Puccini or Verdi, but on an opera by the American jazz trumpeter and film score composer Terence Blanchard.

Hollywood has an enduring ethnic stereotype of Italian men as frustrated opera singers. Though a caricature, there is undeniably a greater knowledge of the music throughout all levels of Italian ...

Detroit Opera made a strong impression Saturday night with the sprawling jazz opera “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” a production that bore skilled performances and excellent music but proved a ...

🎤 Big Sexy is Back! Tonight, the curtain rises on “Big Sexy: The Fats Waller Revue”, premiering at the West Coast Black Theatre. This lively, family-friendly musical pays tribute to jazz legend Fats ...