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Postell creates socially aware, outward-facing music -- a hybrid of singer/songwriter R&B with touches of soul and rap

Netanyahu's hot-headed agenda

Junetta Jones, a pioneering African-American soprano who performed with the Metropolitan Opera after winning its 1963 Young Artists competition, died.

Dan Deacon first heard the term "stress addiction" a few years ago, and the Baltimore-based experimental-pop artist wondered aloud if it applied to his own life. Nearby, the former Ponytail drummer Jeremy Hyman looked back in disbelief.

Gary Thomas has played with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has performed at Carnegie Hall and heads up Peabody's jazz program.

Betty G. Bertaux, a composer and music educator who founded the Children's Chorus of Maryland, died Oct. 10 at her Naples, Fla., home of pancreatic cancer. She was 75.

Richard William Parsons, a retired Baltimore County librarian who also spent nearly 50 years as a residential advocate for Towson, died of cancer Monday at his Woodbine Avenue home. He was 87.

Like many artists before her, Lisa Su has found inspiration from the intricate patterns and textures found in nature: the red seeds from the inside of a pomegranate, barnacles adhering to a rock.

I've never stopped feeling disappointed in the Baltimore School for the Arts. It behaved more like a private school — with the administration's loyalty to the institution, not the individual — than a public school that receives 70 percent of its operating budget from the city school system.

Pianist Emanuel Ax played a brilliant recital of Brahms and new Brahms-inspired works by Brett Dean, Missy Mazzoli in season finale of Shriver Hall Concert Series.

Congratulations to Ally Schito! The Centennial High School senior won a silver medal for her mixed media painting titled, "Adding a Dimension" in the renowned Scholastic Art and Writing competition, a national art contest sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers.

"Marshlands" is praised by such literary power-brokers as the New York Times and Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes

The River Hill choir participated recently in the World Strides Heritage Festival at George Mason University along with students throughout the region from North Carolina to New York. Under the leadership of music teacher/choral director Amy T. Hairston, the students performed masterfully.

Conductor Zubin Mehta coaxes soprano Diana Damrau onto podium during a Vienna Philharmonic encore at Carnegie Hall.

Program that puts musical instruments into hands of schoolkids inspires similar programs in Austria, Brazil and Iraq

the Amelia Piano Trio appears for Candlelight Concerts on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 8 p.m. at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

The sound of 150 children playing instruments — the violin, the trumpet, the oboe, the harp — spills out of every classroom, filling the air and remarkably transforming this elementary school in a raggedy neighborhood of West Baltimore into a music conservatory.

The members of the Jupiter String Quartet surely will be in harmonious alignment with each other when this chamber ensemble performs for Candlelight Concert Society on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. in Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

Collaboration between Carnegie Hall and Ensemble ACJW gives people on New York City street a chance to conduct an orchestra.

Alan Jackson, the country superstar who headlines Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., this weekend, can't help but wonder: Where did the "real" country music go?

Though budget troubles and contract negotiations loom, Marin Alsop has been a definite plus

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop, who started her tenure in 2007, has signed a new contract that will take her through 2021.

The Baltimore Sun has five questions for Toby Bozzuto, president of real estate developer The Bozzuto Group.

Fashion students create performance-based attire that will update the look of the symphony

Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony kicked off the week-long Spring For Music festival at Carnegie Hall in impressive style.

Ravens purple greeted Baltimoreans in 'Spring for Music' program

Marin Alsop shows off her flair for rhythmically propulsive music in a kinetic Baltimore Symphony program that the orchestra will take to Carnegie Hall.

You can expect the music to sound fresh during the Leipzig String Quartet's concert on Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m., at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre. Like the sponsoring Candlelight Concert Society, this chamber music quartet often likes to introduce audiences to contemporary classical music.

Musical and cultural diversity are at the heart of what the Harlem Quartet is all about. This string ensemble brings an eclectic program to Columbia when it performs for the Candlelight Concert Society series on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

Beethoven gets a fresh take by ORR and John Eliot Gardiner

Singer to feature program of pop, jazz standards in Baltimore concert

Shirley Reingold, who wrote the 1948 hit song "It's Too Soon to Know" and managed the Orioles, an early rhythm-and-blues vocal group, died of heart disease Oct. 10 at Aventura Hospital in Aventura, Fla. The former Baltimorean was 89.

Dust off Dust the tuxedos, pull out the pearls and get ready to celebrate a new dance season with anniversaries, reunions, holiday performances and a masked ball here in Howard County

The new album, due out next week, showcases the Baltimore musicians crazy and composed sides

Dan Deacon's new album, due out next week, showcases the Baltimore musician's crazy and composed sides.