Forty minutes into his own performance at the Cistern, Terence Blanchard had played trumpet for about five minutes. Read More

The winner, after two rounds…err…two acts and one intermission, is Champion at Washington National Opera (WNO). Read More  

How many operas have there been about boxing? a friend asked me at the Washington National Opera on Saturday night. In fact, there have been a few in Washington alone....

Symphony orchestras and opera companies across the country continually ask the same question: How do we attract a younger and more diverse audience?Saturday night, I discovered something of an answer...

For Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard, composing a jazz concert based on the children’s novel “Bud, Not Buddy” meant more than just telling Christopher Paul Curtis’s colorful Depression-era tale in...