Academy of Ancient Music director Laurence Cummings selects five masterpieces written by composers late in life ...

The first half will feature violinist Paul Huang (黃俊文) performing Korngold’s “Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35.” The second ...

Musician Lara Downes aims to highlight the work of composers like Harry T. Burleigh, photographed c. 1938. Granger Classical pianist Lara Downes knew she was onto something profound when audiences ...

From music by Johann Sebastian Bach on solo guitar, to a musical memorial by a composer who was teaching in Manhattan on the ...

Can listening to classical music make you “smarter”? Since intelligence is measured in many ways, the issue is contentious. How, exactly, might this occur? In a 1993 study published in the journal ...

In a time of darkness and struggle, composers often look back to ancient stories, myths, even tunes for inspiration — or at ...

George Hall explores the underrated composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari who united Italian and German influences in a range of ...

Jessie Montgomery is having a moment. Several moments at once, actually. In the past several years, the 40-year-old composer and violinist has rapidly become a poster child for the shifting classical ...

Everyday, contemporary composers are making their mark on the sonic palette of classical music. Throughout history, there have been incredible examples of music, artforms, and creative cultures forged ...

You’ve heard it all before. Classical music is dead. It’s one of our culture’s most enduring variations on a theme: that classical music is dying, or aging, or rusty or, at the very least, dusty. It’s ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. There will be a time when we’ll go to concerts again. We will buy our tickets, shuffle shoulder to ...

In popular culture, it’s not often that classical music gets a spot in the proverbial spotlight. But more recently, two celebrated films have taken the subject up and earned critical and cultural ...