What do we possess today as “art”? A faked music, filled with artificial noisiness of massed instruments; a failed painting, full of idiotic, exotic and showcard effects, that every ten years or so ...

Music Director Eun Sun Kim and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra went back to Beethoven for their fall concert, which also ...

Have you ever been to a familiar restaurant where one night all the different flavors on the plate seemed fresh and the whole dinner was a joyous voyage of discovery? Well, that’s what it was like ...

Barrie Gavin: instead of attempting to illustrate music literally, he found visual equivalents with a beauty of their own - Dmitri N. Smirnov Barrie Gavin, who has died aged 89, was a prolific ...

On the 31st (local time), at the Berlin Philharmonie, the concert hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. Before embarking on an ...

Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is like the Beethoven’s Fifth of 20th-century classical music. It’s such an iconic work that even if you don’t know it, you probably know it. In 1940, Walt Disney’s ...

If the above photo does not look anything like a night of Mozart or Tchaikovsky, you're right. Enter 20th Century Classical music where some composers went into non-linear forms, chance and ...

Since the appearance of jazz in the early 20th century, jazz and classical have mostly lived on opposite sides of town, separated by tracks that most listeners won’t cross. This has long remained the ...

Rightly or wrongly, classical music is viewed by many people as something that is not for them. It could be the perceived ‘rules’ of the concert hall or the expectation that you need specialist ...

The pianist who spent 25 years writing pop hits says he's long been interested in the work of Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg and others. Now he's... Bruce Hornsby's Modern Classical Moment Bruce ...