"Each of these four figures, Marsha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, Jeanne Manford, and Xulhaz Mannan, carried a kind of radical tenderness into a world that often met them with hostility."

A selection from the 76 pieces of Kwon's "America/Beautiful" project showed the composers' vast range of styles and approaches.

Four composers combine in an appealing work promoting "a shared community between us and the other living creatures that make us possible."

Todd Almond continually gets waylaid just trying to be a decent and reasonably happy version of himself in this charmingly surreal musical storytelling session.

One of our foremost contemporary Bach interpreters, Dinnerstein also consistently celebrates the music of the now 89-year-old Philip Glass.

Let your mind create its own pictures...

Fanny Hensel, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, composed some 450 works. And it isn't enough to say that her music is as skillfully composed as that of her male peers. Like theirs, it has a distinctive voice (or voices).

The fantasy fable follows the preparations for a wedding between over-the-moon Jenny and Sebastian, a shiftless, barely-interested charmer who seems to have proposed as a lark.

A new exhibit explores the myriad of ways we have created musical instruments in our own image – and incorporated them into our own physicality.

A work like this asks us to exercise our patience, something in short supply these days – to listen closely to a spread of sound over time without imposing expectations on it.