A little-known aspect of Felix Mendelssohn's 1840 Song of Praise shows the importance of learning and optimism in times of crisis.

Florence Price's newly published piano arrangement of the slave song "Troubled in My Mind" eloquently sounds spirit of the ancestral melody.

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented disruption in our daily lives. Musicians can turn that into a creative opportunity in their art.

The arts are where our imagination grows the strange new fruit of new world-views that open the way to a brighter future.