David Garrett is out to make peace between rock and classical audiences. After establishing himself as a rising young classical violinist, the German-born Garrett decided to become an ambassador for ...

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, ...

Editor’s Note: This week we introduce Riffs, an occasional profile of a notable professional musician in the Southland. Known for finger pickin’ and putting his own spin on flamenco and classical ...

Why is classical music so hard to enjoy on streaming services? In one word, it's metadata. Metadata is the information that coexists with every digital music file: each and every piece of information ...

When Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, a classical music aficionado in Brooklyn, asked her Amazon Echo for some music recently, she had a specific request: the third movement of Beethoven’s “Emperor” ...

Few art forms on earth are more indebted to class privilege than Western classical music. For most of its history, it has relied on monarchs, aristocrats, and wealthy patrons even to exist. We have ...

From dedicated museums, historic houses and hometowns of famous composers, to the festivals that immortalise their music, we round up some of the best locations around the world that every classical ...