Albany Symphony to present Holst, teenaged prodigies in 2025-26 season
Albany Symphony unveiled its 2025-2026 season featuring teenaged prodigies, major works by Stravinsky and Holst, commissions ...
AR Rahman: Classical music needs collective revival, as all the legends are gone, don't know who the next big artiste is
AR Rahman says with Ustad Zakir Hussain, Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan and Pandit Shivkumar Sharma gone, he is worried about the ...
Listening to nature’s symphony: how hiking changed classical music
Daniel Kamaluddin explores the connection between hiking and musical inspiration, and what we can learn from it ...
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The 10 best pieces of music by Ravel
Maurice Ravel is one of the greatest French composers who ever lived. Along with Claude Debussy, he single-handedly changed ...
An Arkansas organist is playing 18 hours of Bach this year, one lunch break at a time
To commemorate the 275th anniversary of Bach's death, Colin MacKnight is performing all of Bach's organ works throughout 2025 ...
The brilliance of Piero Piccioni’s seductive jazz scores
Italian composer Piero Piccioni was one of the most prolific musicians to emerge in the 1950s, working on movies like 'Camille 2000' and 'Le Mepris'.
Opinion
Commentary: Why is classical music classical to me?
When I turn on my car radio in the last decades of my life, I tune it first to classical music. How and why did this come to be? I play no instruments and my ear and voice are not musically ...
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Easy listening – by Beethoven
After listening to pianist Jon Batiste’s most recent record album, Blues, for the umpteenth time, I reveled in the fact that this is “easy listening” music that could provide the soundtrack for the ...
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis
Listen to an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. The New York Times has called Davis one of the ...