MUSICOLOGY still sounds like a dull subject, but over the past quarter-century it's been enlivened by arguments over the circumstances surrounding composers' deaths, interest in the influence of ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Bound by long-standing customs, classical music sees a fresh perspective through Ruoyang Xiang’s exceptional piano skills and ...

Joseph Alpar will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16 at Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The pungent and driving sounds of Middle Eastern music livened two ...

There’s so much happening as the classical music world embraces repertoire of Black composers that it’s hard to keep up. Seeing concert listings with names like Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman, ...

The struggle of classical music organizations to find new audiences and new ways to reach audiences continues with interesting results from Fort Worth’s Cliburn Foundation. Expanding beyond the ...

Scipione Sangiovanni is competing at the Cliburn competition later this month Our classical music contributor Gregory Sullivan Isaacs updates us on what’s coming this month in choral and orchestral ...

It’s difficult to imagine an aspiring opera singer catching his or her big break on the television show American Idol, or a classical musician like Yo-Yo Ma appearing on Dancing With the Stars.

For all my railing about preserving centuries-old musical traditions, the notion of what can be defined as “classical music” changes — slowly, to be sure, but definitely. Styles come into the ...