A few things you wanted to know about contemporary classical music and weren’t afraid to ask: Anne Midgette offers an orientation for the curious.

Ross also opines that since classical music is an acquired taste, enduring exposure to modern expressions will develop an appreciation for 20th- and 21st-century compositions.

The ongoing growth of modern classical music, a cause long championed by Columbus community leaders Jack and Zoe Johnstone, led to the creation of the Johnstone Fund for New Music. Since 2008, the ...

The Kravis gift will also provide for a bi-annual grant of $250,000 to a working composer (which the Philharmonic describes as “among the largest for any prize in new music”) starting in 2011.

By Libby Smith July 18, 2023 / 3:10 PM MDT / CBS Colorado Contemporary classic music brings modern, diverse voices into classical music world Contemporary classic music brings modern, diverse ...

WHO: The Aizuri String Quartet, sponsored by New Orleans Friends of Music WHAT: A two-part concert of contemporary and classical chamber music works WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Monday, March 27 ...

He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, ...

Seattle Modern Orchestra's "Strictly Strings" program, Jan. 28 at Cornish College of the Arts, features works by John Adams, Claude Vivier and Iannis Xenakis.

Collage New Music is one of contemporary classical's best friends in Boston. Provocative programs that often include Collage's own commissions are performed in the Longy School of Music's ...

The BBC ran a story yesterday about a computer at the University of Malaga in Spain, dubbed “Iamus” after a mythical Greek prophet who could translate birdsong, that’s capable of composing ...