Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

WKAR’s Classical team is launching a new program where you get to be the host. "Community Classical" will let our listeners make their own hour-long playlist of their favorite classical pieces and ...

For as long as he can remember, Bryce Dessner has been strumming a guitar. He branched out from classical music as a teen to becoming a guitarist for the indie rock band The National. These days, he’s ...

The tech giant will launch a separate classical music streaming app next year that incorporates Primephonic's interface. By J. Clara Chan Digital Media Writer Apple Music has acquired Primephonic, a ...

In giving Apple Music Classical a test spin, a user finds the app providing more varied and interesting points of entry for casual and experienced classical fans than its parent app, Apple Music I’ve ...

Read more in Giving Guide 2023. In February, Chinese American composer Wu Fei participated in a performance of her work by the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra. The rapt audience listened as she played ...

And now it’s been used by New York’s Mobb Deep, one of the most successful rap duos of all time, in their latest single ‘Down ...

Apple Music Classical is now available, though only on the iPhone at the time of writing (other platforms will be supported in due course). If you already subscribe to Apple Music, then the classical ...

Fans of behind-the-scenes opportunities may want to check out Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra’s Classical Evolve. The finals of the fourth annual composer competition take place Sept. 22 at Trinity ...

In the early 1990s, I was in a chorus assigned to sing a contemporary classical piece that was, in a word, hideous. Almost willfully so, it seemed. It wasn’t in any home key — it was atonal — giving ...