After playing dozens of symphony shows, folk rocker Amos Lee has fallen in love with classical music. Lee told The Tennessean from his home in Philadelphia that he didn't come from a family like many ...

I posed a deceptively simple question to our writers and editors, as well as some artists we admire: What are the five minutes or so — longer than a moment, shorter than a symphony — that you’d play ...

CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. — Even people who barely care of classical music love the genre when it’s offered outdoors under the stars. It’s a subdued equivalent of a pop concert. The rock stars of the ...

Laufey Lin, a 24-year-old Icelandic musician and songwriter (known by the mononym Laufey to her fans), never dreamed that her music, which she started writing while she was a college student in Boston ...

Oct. 29: Spooky Symphony – A Halloween Extravaganza: 15th annual kid-friendly concert of eerie classics and current movie favorites, backed by coordinated images on a gigantic screen, featuring the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to music that shows off the golden, mellow sunshine of “the cello of the brass section.” In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Meredith Monk’s “Cellular Songs,” a Kurt Weill rarity and a new take on Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” are among the highlights. By The New York Times ...

As a consolation prize for my canceled vacation in 2020, I bought a used PlayStation 4 on eBay. If I couldn’t get on a plane, I could at least go to Midgar: the glowing, grimy setting of the classic ...

Combining extended techniques with classical music traditions, George Crumb's work invites you to explore an entirely new world through sound. Welcome to our first post made in collaboration with the ...

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, ...