With ear-splitting excess, flamboyant virtuosity and a talent for transgression, where classical music has led, metal has followed. Let’s hope the Philharmonia’s Metal Orchestrated concert turns it up ...

Spoleto Festival USA and Phenotypic Recordings released 'Live from Spoleto 2025: Chamber Music, Vol. 2,' pairing Vivaldi's ...

Listening to classical music can be a powerful tool for enhancing memory. The structured compositions and harmonious ...

It's a brave new musical world. Between downloads, iPods, music sharing websites and the good old CD, we have more easy access to the songs and symphonies we love than ever before. In this visit to ...

Pacific Symphony rings in the New Year with "Four Seasons and Strauss," featuring two inspiring masterpieces that are sure to uplift and calm the spirit. First, Concertmaster Dennis Kim, who also ...

Antonio Vivaldi wrote more than 500 concertos. Today, most people know four of them. But those four — commonly known as “The Four Seasons” — have become part of our cultural fabric. They may not even ...

The first half of 2020 has really shown music’s ability to bring people together and provide comfort in difficult times, whether it’s people singing on balconies during lockdown to entertain their ...

Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic mark Smetana’s bicentenary in peerless style, while the countertenor and Accademia Bizantina contemplate the Virgin Mary Happy birthday Bedřich Smetana! This ...

Do you remember the 1988 Bobby McFerrin song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”? The extraordinarily talented and versatile musician’s parents were opera singers – Robert McFerrin Sr. was a regular at the ...