My knowledge of classical music was mostly derived from Saturday morning cartoons, until I became a mom and discovered classical music packaged for kids. In the Baby Einstein years, those soothing ...

TALLINN Music Week draws a young crowd. One imagines that they might listen to techno, R&B or jazz in their spare time; they do not seem like the types typically found in a classical concert hall.

WALLINGFORD -- That side lock of bleached-blond hair that just escapes his ponytail makes women swoon, but those fingers flying over the strings of his 1716 Stradivarius violin are the technical ...

To tantalize would-be listeners, Apple Music Classical has offered a sneak peek at an exclusive performance of one of Beethoven's concertos by two talented women in classical music. Apple Music ...

The two-part expansive portrait of the iconic musician, 'And So It Goes' will air across two weeks later this month, clocking in at a total of five hours, and features interviews with Joel, his ...

Jennifer Gersten, a doctoral student in violin performance at Stony Brook University, is an editor at Guernica and the winner of the 2018 Rubin Prize for Music Criticism. Follow @jenwgersten Let the ...

WALLINGFORD -- That side lock of bleached-blond hair that just escapes his ponytail makes women swoon, but those fingers flying over the strings of his 1716 Stradivarius violin are the technical ...

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, ...

But three years after the conclusion of his music directorship of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra — by his own reckoning, his last such appointment — he feels freer than ever to express his thoughts ...

Few art forms on earth are more indebted to class privilege than Western classical music. For most of its history, it has relied on monarchs, aristocrats, and wealthy patrons even to exist. We have ...