What followed is a 55-year love affair with classical music — branching out to discover greats like Brahms, Bruch, Mahler, Chopin, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Elgar as well as lesser known ...

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 ...

Classical music and jazz. They’re like jealous siblings who deep down love each other, but just can’t stop rowing in public. At least, that’s how it used to be. In recent decades they’ve been ...

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

Is classical music in a "new golden age"? Heather Mac Donald recently argued this at length in City Journal, a right-leaning quarterly. Despite widespread pessimism, she takes the view that ...

What is classical music’s place today? Will there still be an engaged audience for repertoires of the past centuries? The conductor, Leon Botstein, didn’t seem to hold high expectations for The ...

How is the classical music world changing? Looking back on a dizzying year, we pay particular attention to performers’ ...