The son of a Baltimore record store-owner, Glass studied flute as a child and entered the University of Chicago at age 16. He progressed from there to Juilliard and was building a solid career for himself, when at 26…

Leonard Bernstein was, without a doubt, the best-known classical musician America has ever produced. Respected worldwide as a conductor and composer…

To call Jessie Montgomery “in demand” in recent years is to engage in truly comic understatement. In the past four years, she’s been Musical America’s Composer of the Year, Performance Today’s Classical Woman of the Year, Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony, has won a Grammy Award…