Listening to classical music is a bit different from listening to modern pop music. The music is built differently—most recordings aren’t performed by their composers, and there’s rarely one ...

Classical music has blessed us with timeless musical motifs, many of which have inspired later innovations — like the trill technique in heavy metal and groovy synth-pop beats. So many of the greatest ...

In reviewing the most recent San Diego Symphony concert, I made something of a big deal about countries of origin not being important in classical music. While that is true when it comes to performing ...

A primer on medieval chants, minimalist opera and everything in between. By Mitchell Kuga The origins of what we think of as Western classical music date back to the 10th century, with the development ...

Classical music from the Czech Republic, Nigeria or Brazil: the Rheingau music festival is set to present works with diverse sounds from distant countries. Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak were ...

We've all noticed it, haven't we? It's the era of reboots, remakes, and decades-old sequels. Within the past five years there have been remakes/reboots of Footloose, RoboCop, Red Dawn, Star Trek, ...

Classical pianist Lara Downes knew she was onto something profound when audiences began to react to her show-closing rendition of “Fantasie Negre,” a 1929 composition by the African American composer ...

Belgium's B-Classic music festival, whose mission is to "give classical music the same recognition as pop and rock music," brings us a rather interesting sensory collision in the form of the music ...

Apple has acquired the major classical music record label BIS Records which will become a part of Apple Music Classical and Platoon. Platoon is an artist services, A&R, and music distribution company ...

The game, which was released on Sept. 6, 2023, allows players to build their own character and spacecraft, travel to any one of a thousand or more planets and follow multiple story arcs. The ...