As we approach the opening of the Newport Classical Music Festival, I find myself reflecting on what makes these weeks so ...

I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, a term that’s routinely applied to radically different idioms across more than 1,000 years of ...

Violinist Julie Lyonn Lieberman has a mission: to help classical string musicians of all ages, both amateur and professional, ...

For the L.A. Phil's Seoul Festival, leading Korean composer Unsuk Chin invites a new generation of composers largely unknown in the U.S. The result is an enthralling kickoff to the eight-day event.

The importance of classical music, historically and culturally, cannot be overstated. The various periods in classical music ...

Composer Reena Esmail’s Unique New Work Blends Indian and Western Classical Music Traditions. She is not following in anyone’s footsteps but her own.

Thirty years after his first lessons with Curnow, Okpebholo became the composer-in-residence of the Lexington Philharmonic, the same orchestra that first exposed him to classical music in grade ...

An introduction to five composers who are using electronic and acoustic instruments to build their own individual worlds of sound, featuring Belle Chen, Ólafur Arnalds, Hania Rani, Nils Frahm and Fred ...

Among the pedestaled titans of Western music, George Frideric Handel was the first composer whose work not only quickly became celebrated in his own time but has been heralded ever since. Before ...

History, from ancient times to the present, shows us how this “container” for music lived on. By 300 B.C.E. the Bible’s Old Testament had a Greek translation called the Septuagint.

This story is part of The California Report Magazine’s series about California composers.You can hear Esmail’s compositions and learn more about her work by listening to the audio story above, or by ...

One of the most controversial figures in music of the 20th century is Rosemary Brown, who died in 2001 at age 85.She was a British composer who claimed she had contact with the spirits of a number ...