When the creators of “The Hip Hop Nutcracker” melded hip hop dancing with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet score, there was a feeling they had something special on their hands. “It’s so crazy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Classical instruments and orchestrations aren’t unknown in hip-hop music, but nobody mingles those sounds like the Illharmonic ...

When you think of classical music, chances are you don’t often think of an underlying hip-hop beat. That's where two musicians, Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus come in. The pair has been blending hip-hop ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The latest trend in hip-hop has the genre going highbrow. More than a half-century since it started, the most popular genre in the ...

Hip-hop and classical music might seem worlds apart, but this orchestra concert works to seamlessly merge the two genres in a way you’ve never experienced before. “The music pulls from both hip-hop ...

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Jeffrey McNeill, otherwise known as Thee Phantom (right), performs with his partner Andrea Coln McNeill at Carnegie Hall in New York. The duo behind the Illharmonic Orchestra is set to perform in ...

Peninsula Ballet Theatre (PBT) today announced plans to present two very popular and contrasting versions of the Christmas holiday favorite, Classical Nutcracker, December 16 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 17 at ...

There’s a story that used to make the rounds in the sheet music business about legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman making a stop at the iconic Frank Music Company in New York City. The person who ...

The performance at the Numerica Performing Arts Center on March 14 promises something audiences may not have heard before — ...

Overland Park teenager Kevin Li has diverse musical tastes including playing his clarinet, listening to hip-hop and making beats. Christy L'Esperance speaks with Kevin about how he got started in ...

Classical instruments and orchestrations aren’t unknown in hip-hop music, but nobody mingles those sounds like the Illharmonic Orchestra. On Nov. 22, the New York-based ensemble is playing the Shubert ...