The Illharmonic Orchestra blends hip-hop and classical music during live performances. Its leaders tell NPR's Juana Summers ...

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Juilliard Drama Division announced four fourth-year productions for its upcoming season, featuring works by August Wilson, ...

If you look down the list of the dozens of classical pieces that Stacy Garrop has written in her 30-year career, you will ...

It was an idea from songwriter-producer Kevin Parker, made a reality by Kiwi ‘sonic tinkerer’ Tom Cosm. The result is a ...

The producers of The Piano (Channel 4) have found a formula and they’re sticking to it. Amateurs turn up at a railway station ...

This collection of songs that the composer wrote as a young man is full of interest and emotion. Pianist Joseph Middleton brings sensitive support and an array of illustrative colours The second ...

While audiences will always want to see a band play the hits, it’s easy to understand why performing songs you wrote decades ago might prove tiring. But for many artists, their refusal to fall back on ...

Led Zeppelin was never a ‘singles band’. While their peers chased three-minute radio spots, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham were busy constructing cathedrals of sound that ...

The classical music tradition in the United States is borrowed from Europe. But few could have anticipated how European it would remain. The classical music tradition in the United States is borrowed ...

Starting the violin can feel a little unfamiliar at first, especially when you don’t know which songs are simple enough to learn early on. That’s why choosing the right easy violin songs matters so ...

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