Louis W. Ballard paved the way for a booming generation of artists. But his works have been too little performed and recorded.

Composer Marko Bajzer wrote “The Sacrifice of Prometheus,” a classical-music epic, when he was a Great Basin National Park artist-in-residence. The piece, a musical exploration of the park’s ...

Meet the 120 students nominated for instrumental performance in genres such as classical music, jazz, pop and mariachi.