Black History Month

Are you familiar with Black Violin? They are an two classically trained musicians -- Kevin Sylvester and Wilner Baptiste - who perform as a hip hop duo.

Today's Beautiful Music features a significant singer in opera history - soprano Camilla Williams with a 1946 recording of SUMMERTIME.

Montague Ring was the pen name of musician Amanda Aldridge, who lived from 1866-1956. She was an opera singer and teacher, and when she composed she used her pen name.

The extraordinary violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins is featured in today's Beautiful Music. She has teamed up with Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Cunningham. They're performing Florence Price's exciting Violin Concerto #2.

Today's Beautiful Music is a fantastic concert performance of George Gershwin's opera PORGY AND BESS. The 2019 performance features soprano Adina Aaron, and bass-baritone Musa Ngqungwana.

Bass-baritone Jonathan Woody's powerful, expressive artistry provides today's Beautiful Music. This concert performance is from a March 2023 of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio MESSIAH with Washington Bach Consort.

Today's Beautiful Music features Brandon Patrick George with harpist June Han playing the Tempo Minuetto section from the Sonata for Flute and Harp in E-flat by Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Today's Beautiful Music is a captivating, jazzy improvisation featuring the rising star violinist Randall Goosby and double bassist/composer Xavier Dubois Foley.

Today's Beautiful Music is Adolphus Hailstork's 1999 Symphony #2, commissioned by the Detroit Symphony, and inspired by the composer's 1996 trip to Africa.

Today's Beautiful Music features Kelly Hall-Tompkins playing her arrangement of PURE IMAGINATION.