TwoSet Violin pulls a young, enthusiastic audience to Symphony Center: ‘Classical music can compete with brainrot’

Brett Yang and Eddy Chen said when they started out, everyone was skeptical they could pull off live concerts blending comedy ...
WKAR

Musical duo Black Violin on blending hip-hop with classical music: 'Be who you are'

When you think of classical music, chances are you don’t often think of an underlying hip-hop beat. That's where two musicians, Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus come in. The pair has been blending hip-hop ...
NPR

'The Violin Conspiracy' shows what it can be like to play classical music while Black

Brendan Slocumb remembers that moment that classical music just clicked for him. BRENDAN SLOCUMB: The first piece of classical music that I heard was Mozart's "Symphony No. 40." (SOUNDBITE OF ...
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Thriller 'The Violin Conspiracy' addresses racism in classical music

Polemic rarely works in fiction, and that's for a very good reason: Fiction begets empathy, and polemic encourages attack. But in his debut thriller The Violin Conspiracy, Brendan Slocumb employs ...

Staten Island youth violin ensemble to host free Gratitude Concert

The youth ensemble's Gratitude Concert will feature classical and folk music with special guests, funded by the NY State ...