An Orchestra That Describes Itself as “Forever Young” Employs Some Bad Old Practices In January 2020, after two years of planning, noted composer Primous Fountain, the New World Symphony (NWS), and the orchestra’s co-founding music director laureate Michael Tilson Thomas (1944-2026) formally contracted for the orchestra to give a full concert of Fountain’s music. Mr. Fountain duly supplied the requisite scores and performance materials, and the orchestra advertised the progra

Margaret Bonds's star piano student has recorded one of her best-known piano works, "Troubled Water," and posted it to YouTube. This is an announcement, context, and commentary.