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, ...

Yo-Yo Ma won his 20th Grammy Award on February 1 in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category at the 68th Annual Grammy ...

Let us make the case that the most successful music conservatory is not in Paris, Vienna or Berlin but rather, in a house on a tree-lined street in Nottingham, England. It might be an unpretentious ...

Every seat in the Missouri History Museum’s Lee Auditorium was filled Friday night for a gathering that honored the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by celebrating Blackness through the lens ...

Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya occupies a rare space in global music history. He is the first Indian artist inducted into the ...

Progress in the classical world is nothing if not andante — change, when it comes, takes its sweet time. At the peak of the pandemic, a push against racial disparity spread across the world of ...

6. Vienna State Opera Vienna is practically synonymous with classical music, with legends like Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Haydn all living and working here, so it’s only fitting that the city is ...

He sits squarely in front of us on the screen, a full-bodied man with a carefully trimmed white beard and a nearly bald head, his eyes looming behind dark-framed glasses—one eye glaring with cyclopean ...

“If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our ...

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