For more than four decades, WUSF and Classical WSMR host and music director Russell Gant’s voice greeted listeners like an old friend: warm and unhurried. He made you believe, if only for a few ...

Ten-year-old Macklin Perelli is practicing his stooped walk. The Minnie Gant fifth grader recently learned that he won a role in the school’s production of Willie Wonka Junior, a musical in which he ...

Michael Gant was the one who made Peter Pan fly and the rain fall on Don Lockwood. Now he can only be remembered fondly as a "dedicated" contributor to musicals in the Quad-Cities. Mr. Gant, 51, died ...

Five Straight Lines, as the subtitle says, is a history of music: not just of western music but of music per se. That’s 2½ global millennia in just over 600 pages, a moderately ambitious aim, not that ...

“Choral music is slow food for the soul,” proclaimed contemporary American composer Nico Muhly in an effusive commentary on Andrew Gant’s history of English sacred music (New York Times, April 2). The ...