The spring season is rich and robust, despite shocking developments at the Kennedy Center. Outside Washington, the classical music industry suffers the usual ups and downs, shocks and bumps, with ...

Focusing on the balance between accuracy and expression, this portrait painting session draws inspiration from John Singer Sargent’s methods. The discussion touches on anatomy, light direction, and ...

Whether you find yourself singing along to “Espresso” on repeat all day, struggling to self-learn the ukulele, or trying to convince your cat that you’re the next big thing, there are tons of music ...

Chicago might have already hit its first deep freeze, but the local classical music scene pulses with life this season. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, the Chicago Symphony’s artist-in-residence, ...

Donnacha Dennehy, ‘Land of Winter’; Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, conductor (Nonesuch) How do you compose light? That was the task that the Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy took on in writing “Land ...

It’s back to the future at Village Green Elementary School in Olympia Heights. It’s the first public school in South Florida to adopt the classical education curriculum, which is a favorite of the ...

Gustavo Dudamel launches the fall season with a world premiere by the Hawaiian composer Leilehua Lanzilotti and Charles Ives’s panorama of Americana, the Symphony No. 2. Yunchan Lim joins in for ...

Classical music radio stations in Kentucky, North Carolina and Texas are expanding their presences in their communities by pushing the boundaries of classical music. “You can’t convince everyone to ...

The headmaster of St. Benedict Classical Academy (SBCA), an independent Catholic school in Natick, Massachusetts, often says that architecture is a student’s first teacher. Jay Boren was so convinced ...

Superstar violinist Joshua Bell asked his TED Talk audience, "Do we need classical music? Is it relevant?" He and his newly formed Chamber Orchestra of America answer that question in a recently ...