Anne Midgette, chief classical music critic at The Washington Post, recently wrote an article that caught our attention called “A beginner's guide to enjoying classical music. No snobs allowed.” We ...
For nearly 300 episodes now, the “Classical Classroom” podcast has helped to bring classical music a little more down to earth. References to Lady Gaga, the Smiths and Tom Waits pepper host Dacia Clay ...
Pianist Angela Draghicescu never meant to become a classical music investigator. But a simple desire to play good music led her to an unavoidable conclusion: some very important composers were grossly ...
Twenty Fresno schoolteachers were learning last week how to integrate classical music into such core subjects as math, science and history, thanks to a new pilot music education program developed by ...
When Mexican flutist Jonathan Borja was in high school, he probably couldn’t have guessed how a visit from composer Arturo Márquez to his high school then would turn into a collaboration 20 years ...
Editor’s Note: Charlie Albright is a classical pianist and recipient of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant and 2010 Gilmore Young Artist Award. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. The ...
Some 150 years ago, if you wanted to listen to music, you would have to perform it yourself or be in the presence of musicians. With Thomas Edison’s phonograph in 1877 came the ability to record music ...