As a child, I was essentially alone in my passion for music. No one in my extended family, as far as I knew, had sung in a chorus, played the guitar, anything. So the finished basement den of our ...

While diversity may be verboten in some current political circles, it’s a definite boon in the arts, and especially in music, ...

As temperatures drop, music venues are heating up with great concerts and opera productions available throughout the ...

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...

The Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi was also a choirmaster and a string player. He is known to be a pioneer in the development of opera and his work focused mainly on secular and sacred music.

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

Classical music can feel daunting to dig into if you haven't had a lot of exposure to the genre or didn’t grow up playing an instrument. With so many terms, styles, composers and performers, it can be ...

The Upper East Side school is part of a movement to advance a “classical” education model that has risen in popularity in recent years, particularly among political conservatives. When the Tikvah Fund ...

Ask any self-respecting classical music aficionado who the greatest composer of all time is, and they’ll usually whittle down a shortlist of three key names: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van ...

After expanding to CarPlay a few months ago, Apple Music Classical has hit yet another new platform. Starting today, you can access Apple Music Classical on the web for the first time. In today’s ...