Composers respond to the events of their lives, and those events are all shaped by politics. How can music operate free of political influence?

The Celebrity Series of Boston presented pianist Yulianna Avdeeva Wednesday evening at Longy School of Music’s Pickman Hall.

Benjamin is one of the leading figures in contemporary classical music. Born in 1960 ... Ringed by the Flat Horizon was ...

But when he realized his new home lacked a classical composers’ organization, he spearheaded the creation of a new one. In the 15 years since then, Cascadia Composers has thrived, growing into one of ...

With some of my choices for this year’s classical and jazz concerts, we know exactly what we’re in for, such as Britten ...

The biggest classical festival ... tenor Allan Clayton, composers Helen Grime and Daniel Kidane and violinist Leila Josefowicz, and there’ll be no less than 20 world premieres, plus a ...

BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday, it is only available in the UK.

By Joshua BaroneCorinna da Fonseca-WollheimZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what hooked ...

In 2024, two library archives announced the unearthing of previously unknown music by famous classical composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Frédéric Chopin. Mozart lived and worked in Austria ...

It's the headline violinists, bassoonists and bangers of big expensive drums look for each year: classical music is back, and young people like it again. To be fair, the data mostly checks out ...

Complex's Zach Frydenlund on Nowitzki: "Before Dirk, rarely did you ever see a 7-footer in the NBA launching from deep. Now just look at the NBA today. If your team doesn’t have a big man that ...

He describes Thomas’ work as “a wonderfully classical piece inspired ... Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, “showing how much influence Mozart had on other composers.” ...