Best classical music for meditation: from Hildegard von Bingen to John Cage, we recommend six pieces that will aid serenity ...

The trope that “classical music is boring” often comes from those outside of the performance field. So, it might come as a surprise that this phrase was the title of a Wintersession workshop held on ...

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, ...

This winter’s most creative and compelling classical concerts all benefit from their assiduous embrace of diverse influences, ...

With the biennial Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival concerts comes a need to sharpen one's grasp of critical musical language. Certain terms appear frequently on musical scores and ...

Women make up half the world, but their music has been only a fraction what’s been featured in the last few centuries of classical music programs. That’s changing, as this season’s splendid ...

The importance of classical music, historically and culturally, cannot be overstated. The various periods in classical music reflect political, social and artistic movements from a given point in time ...

There’s a new vitality in the classical music scene—and it would simply not exist without the creativity and support of queer people. A ChamberQUEER performance at Branded Saloon in Brooklyn. Picture ...

There is a massive wave of classical music wafting through Connecticut this week. Unfortunately, a lot of those concerts mark the end of those symphonies’ 2024-25 season, and a few of them all happen ...

"We’re helping hip-hop and classical music grow and expand beyond their boundaries," Cypress Hill's "Sen Dog" says. By Roy Trakin The latest trend in hip-hop has the genre going highbrow. More than a ...