his appeal continues to stretch beyond classical music’s usual confines, engaging new generations who see his works as a direct expression of life’s joys and fears. To help contextualize all this, ...

It has been 100 years since Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich finished writing his first symphony in 1925. When Symphony ...

it seems like an appropriate week in which to reproduce above what she wrote for me when I discovered to my surprise that the Eleventh was her favourite Shostakovich symphony, and she explained why.

Playing classical music to your child while they’re still in the womb can stimulate development, new research suggests. Music has long been a way for expectant parents to connect with their ...

The Live Music Capital of the World is getting a new addition to complement its signature title. Construction will begin this year on a $35 million venue in Austin that's set to be the city's ...

As elsewhere, Cho plays with remarkable sensitivity and easily meets the music’s technical demands ... mesmerizing work — named for Hibernia, the classical Latin name for Ireland — he ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Several Austin-based musicians ... that Klein has collected over decades of touring and being in the music business. "It's a scrapbook of my life, and it's also what I use ...

To test the effects music can have on fetal heart rate, the group of researchers recruited 36 pregnant women and played a pair of classical pieces for their fetuses. For the experiment ...

A team of researchers from Mexico has conducted a study measuring heart rate frequencies of babies in the womb, concluding that classical music has a positive effect. A team of researchers from the ...

Music conjures of memories of the past – of a loved one, a dream or a family member – and hearing great classical music can help connect us to times gone by, creating create a sense of poignancy that ...