The Minneapolis youth choir Known MPLS is making an impact in song and in community. ‘Known MPLS first and foremost exists to consistently provide a safe space for youth to thrive,’ director Courtland Pickens says. Find out more about these remarkable singers, and watch their performance of ‘Up Above My Head.’
During the Voces8 Scholars’ recent recording residency with YourClassical MPR, the young singers enjoyed the privilege of working with Minnesota composer Shruthi Rajasekar. Watch and listen now as they perform the Midwestern premiere of her vibrant new piece ‘Sat on the Shore,’ which urges listeners to ‘put away your mobile devices’ and enjoy the beauty of the world around you.
For the first time since 2015, the North Dakota State University Challey School of Music performed its annual holiday tradition ‘Messiah’ at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Minneapolis in late 2022. Listen now to that performance for Easter.
On Thursday, March 30, YourClassical MPR presented a broadcast of Minnesota Opera’s production of 'Edward Tulane,' based on a novel by Kate DiCamillo. Find out more about the making of this incredible opera from the people behind it, and listen to the on-demand audio now!
MNspin is a digital streaming platform based in Minnesota that contains more than 500 albums in its collection, showcasing music in 18 diverse genres, including classical. Sponsored by the Friends of the Hennepin County Library, that system’s cardholders can download the music for free, and any Minnesota-based performer can submit music to be considered for inclusion. Find out more!
Minnesota music explorers are in for a treat when world-renowned tabla percussionist Zakir Hussain and fifth-generation sitar player Niladri Kumar perform Saturday at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul as part of the 40th-anniversary celebration of the Indian Music Society of Minnesota.
The scholastic marching arts continued their post-COVID comeback as 34 of the top high school marching bands from Minnesota and beyond competed Saturday at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis as part of the Youth in Music Championships. Relive the excitement and pageantry of the event through our huge photo gallery.
Composer Gerald Gurss was listening to NPR one day when he heard the story of an HIV-positive man who found life-saving drugs on the black market during the AIDS crisis. Moved by this and similar stories, the composer created ‘Stigmata,’ a 35-minute suite that’s airing on TPT in a performance by the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus.
Hip-hop and horns go together like peanut butter and jelly. But what happens when you take a typically small horn section and multiply it by 10? You get something like “Brighter Day,” Minnesota rapper Nur-D’s collaboration with the Anoka-based River City Rhythm drum and bugle corps.
Four notes, arranged into a simple melody of 24 tones, played by a solitary bugler, might be one of the nation’s most recognizable and enduring pieces of music: “Taps.” Volunteers ensure that it’s heard at all military burials at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
