Hans Abrahamsen’s ‘Schnee,’ Carlos Simon’s ‘Requiem for the Enslaved,’ and Igor Levit’s ‘Tristan’ are three of the standouts. The fuller return to live performance this year happily coincided with a ...

"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.

Nearly two decades ago, shortly before the publication of his 4,000-page magnum opus, The Oxford History of Western Music, the polarizing American musicologist Richard Taruskin agreed to sit with NPR ...

In the fall of 2019, my Classical KING colleagues and I began a strategic planning process by interviewing more than a hundred people living in Seattle and the Puget Sound region. We asked them about ...

MANILA -- For more than five decades, veteran freelance writer Pablo Tariman has been covering cinema, ballet, theater and the performing arts with special focus on classical music. He has helped ...

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, ...

Classical music radio stations in Kentucky, North Carolina and Texas are expanding their presences in their communities by pushing the boundaries of classical music. “You can’t convince everyone to ...