Music critic Walter Tunis curates 15-track Valentine's Day playlist celebrating beauty beyond romance, spanning classical, jazz, folk, soul.

Taking a melody people already know and hearing it in a new way has a long tradition in classical music. In Florence Price’s ...

The two nights of performances include the rarely heard parts two and three of Handel's "Messiah" and Bach's massive "B-minor Mass." ...

Concert halls and symphony orchestras try to lure younger listeners by mutilating the music. There’s a better way.

Our critic tracked one concert, from its first rehearsals to its first performance. Practice is only part of what makes this ensemble excellent.

William Banfield is a leading voice in American music, expanding what classical music can sound like and whose stories it can ...

Professor Paul Colombo has studied music-based mentoring, memory, and the benefits of music training over the course of his career at Tulane University. Here's what he found.

American pianist and composer Chloe Flower is on a mission to get young people into classical music. She’s doing it by collaborating with rap, house and pop stars, and creating her own genre of music, ...

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When people think of classical music, things such as concert halls, theaters, or 18th-century lore come to mind. However, this genre, perfected by the likes of Beethoven and Mozart, has inspired ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Classical music fans know how it is to arrive at a concert in the summer. There are people with picnic baskets, and folks in short pants and sandals. There ...

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 ...