If Pandora and Spotify existed in the time of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, what might be on his playlists? That’s the musical question conductor David Alan Miller is exploring with Sarasota Orchestra’s ...

Stages is bringing one of classical music’s most beloved composers back from beyond the grave in “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” a portrayal of Sergei Rachmaninoff during his final days as he recalls, ...

The first concert was held on Tuesday at the Wonderland Hong Kong open-air concert venue holding about 1,000 spectators HONG KONG, December 17. /TASS/. The Chinese people love Russian music, so it is ...

Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina, an intellectually probing artist who fused sound and spirituality, died Thursday at her home in Appen, Germany. She was 93 years old. Her death was confirmed by her ...

"Accessible" can be a dirty word in contemporary classical music. For decades, composers have outfitted their works with gnarly tangles of complexity, and heaven forbid if there's a tune you can hum.

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

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