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Featured Artist: Jordyn Davis Interview: Nicole DeMaio News and Current Events: Rickey Pageot at the Hollywood Bowl; San Antonio Symphony Files for Bankruptcy  This Month In History: Vicente Lusitano

Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! Happy Armed Forces Day!  Happy Memorial Day! Featured Artist: Nicole DeMaio Interview: Connecticut Summerfest Founders Aaron Price and Gala Flagello News and Current Events: We need to talk about what female classical musicians wear; The forgotten and unrecognized female composers who pioneered electronic music This Month In History: Alton Adams Gameshow! - Souza March or Nah?

Happy Black History Month Interview: Mel Fitzhugh News and Current Events: NorthStar Duo performs at the Sugar Hill Salon in Harlem! And some more super cool resources for research! This Month In History: Lillian Hardin Armstrong  

Happy New Year! Featured Artist: Mel Fitzhugh Interview: Groupmuse Founder and Worker-Owner Kyle Schmolze! News and Current Events: Some super cool resources for research! This Month In History: Sam Cooke Gameshow: What Seychelle Know About the Flute?

Happy Holidays!   Featured Artist: Hakeem Bilal News and Current Events: Hey composers! Connecticut Summerfest applications are due soon, Ebun Oguntola wins the Composers NOW Commission Award, there’s a new Belle in town at the Olney Theatre, Makella Moore Harris: Band Teacher and Black Excellence Reflections on the past year Gameshow: Do You Know What I know?

Halloween! Featured Artist: Justine Lee Hooper News and Current Events: Students organize against a U of Michigan composition professor for racially insensitive teaching, Richard Antoine Wright on his journey to the New Mexico Phil, Fire Shut Up In My Bones, and Nashville's new museum of black musicians This Month In History: Oliver Nelson Gameshow: MusicGhoul Movies

Back to School! Featured Artist: Adelante Winds News and Current Events: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra fires its principal flutist, covid and when we'll be back in the concert hall, Virgos unite! This Month In History: Judy Clay Gameshow: The Price Is Right - Endowments Edition

It's Melanoma Awareness Month! -Featured Artist: Tivon Pennicott -Interview: Previous NorthStar Duo Call for Scores winner Buck McDaniel -News and Current Events: An Eastman School of Music major is racially profiled on campus, and  Slavery Saturdays at Juilliard This Month in History: William Grant Still Gameshow! - Seychelle is in the hot seat with "Do You Know the Skin You're In?"

Happy Women's History Month! -Featured Artist: Am're Ford -Interview: Grammy nominated flutist Kim Scott -News and Current Events: NorthStar Duo Presents Stronger Together Concert; Hannah Kimball; Julliard in Rolling Stone Magazine, Fisk Jubilee Singers win a grammy, the passing of James Levine This Month in History: Margaret Bonds Gameshow! - Adrienne's in the hot seat

Extended Black History Month and Black Excellence Episode! -Featured Artist: Grammy Nominee Kim Scott -Interview: Alissa Gittens of Urban Flautistas talks racial bias in music education -Black Owned Business: Sunflower Essentials -Miss Jessica's World: "Black People Who Change the World" News: Met Opera Lockout and NorthStar Duo's Call for Scores: Images as Microcosm This Month in History: Marian Anderson

Keeping Score, Episode 9, January 2021! -Kim Janey is appointed Interim Mayor of Boston if Walsh accepts Biden's appointment -Adrienne talks about the music in the Netflix Series Bridgerton -Featured Artist: Jeff Scott -Interview with Alexander Davis as he talks about the Sugar Hill Salon -This month's quiz: Adrienne in the hot seat with "King Me", a quiz about the amazing Coretta Scott King

Gratefulness Episode! Topics: Featured Artist: Alexander Davis Interview: Teddy Hall Classical Music News: What can we expect from the new administration for the arts? Social Justice News: Grace Moore, 12 year old Brooklyn girl the youngest to ever have a work performed by the NY Philharmonic This Month in History: Scott Joplin Everyone's a Critic: Adrienne talks about the inner critic and how it helps or hinders empowerment Game Show! Gratefulness Edition - How Well Does Seychelle Know Our Friendship?

We're back! October Topics: Featured Artist: Coreisa Janelle Lee Classical Music News: Study on Covid, Wind Musicians and Aerosol Spread Social Justice News: Students of the Jazz Studies program at Western Michigan University pen an open letter to the school about their experiences with discrimination and racism This Month in History: George Bridgetower Game Show! - To which Sorority do these famous musicians belong?

Topics:   -Featured Artist - Nick Dunston   -Classical Music News - Chamber Music America releases their Covid19 impact survey results and George Shirley is honored with a lifetime achievement award from the National Association of Teachers of Singing   -Social Justice News - Trailblazing trans musicians of color and ABRSM takes heat for their 2020/2021 curriculum and lack of diversity   -This Month in History: Undine Moore Smith   -Gameshow! Seychelle's in the hot seat with "So You Think You Know Your Composers"

Topics: -Featured Artist - Inti Figgis-Vizuetta -Interview! - Jammie Phillips!: topics - public school teaching during covid, Greek life and how Greek organizations can contribute to anti-racism and inclusion -Classical Music News - Socially distanced, chamber orchestras and what that means for us and you -Social Justice News - LGBTQ composers in history -Gameshow! Adrienne's back in the hot seat this week playing "Composer or Conductor?"

Topics: -Featured Artist - Lois Hicks Wozniak -Classical Music News - Naxos and copyright bots remove concerts mid stream -Social Justice News - Anthony Davis Wins the Pulitzer Prize for "The Central Park Five" -Everyone's a Critic - Trombonist Brenda Sansig Salas gives her opinion on social media -This Month in History -Gameshow! Adrienne's in the hot seat this week playing "Musician or Politician?"

Adjusted to the new social distancing normal and back! Topics: Musician covid19 news. Stimulus benefits, contract and gig work, how large organizations are affected by the global shift. Everybody is a critic! Adrienne gets personal (and petty) This day in history: Blind Tom Wiggins, prodigy pianist who lived during slavery and after emancipation (1849-1908) Game Show Time!

Episode 2 of keeping score! Topics covered include Blue Monday, the Met's current production of Porgy and Bess, and This Is Oliver Nelson's Life!

Our first episode, News, On This Day In History, and Composer or Inventor?