Why still hear classical music live? What can a concert by your local orchestra offer, when there are more than 100 years of unsurpassable recordings available to listeners?

It starts with a melody so hummable, you’re convinced you’ve always known it. Then Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto ...

Apple recently released a new app called Apple Music Classical, and it’s caused some confusion. With people wondering why Apple made a separate app, if it costs extra, and how managing two music apps ...

Hurwitz is not obsessed with the live performances that absorb most critics. His obsession is with the innumerable recordings that have been issued in the past seventy-five years or so—a glorious ...

Billy Joel’s Admission to Bill Maher About Classical Music: ‘I Get Stoned From It’ originally appeared on Parade. Bill Maher took his podcast Club Random on the road to Boca Raton, Florida, where he ...

Billy Joel explains how his music was influenced by classical music in the HBO documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” ...

Lindsey Stirling, the agile, high-kicking empress of contemporary violin who's amassed a huge social media following, makes ...

The original version, released in 1983, was a huge international hit, and starred supermodel Christie Brinkley - who would ...

"We’re helping hip-hop and classical music grow and expand beyond their boundaries," Cypress Hill's "Sen Dog" says.

It’s the solstice, which means summertime! And we’ve got hot weather to prove it. Cool off with a dip in the flowing sound of Deep River performed by violinist Randall Goosby.

From the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tanglewood to a collection of concerts at Newport mansions, the summer is brimming with opportunities to experience classical music. WBUR arts critic Lloyd ...

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