With the biennial Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival concerts comes a need to sharpen one's grasp of critical musical language. Certain terms appear frequently on musical scores and ...

In 2008, conductor and University of Chicago alum Jeri Lynne Johnson founded the Philadelphia-based Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra. The ensemble was designed to be a model for twenty-first-century ...

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Close your eyes, and you may think that this is 1913. In the past few days, the classical music community has been set aflame by recent comments from three prominent male conductors who are — steel ...

Over my many years of reviewing, I’ve often been asked for advice from newcomers to classical music, people excited by what they have heard, and eager to hear — and to learn — more. Naturally, I urge ...

What is classical music’s place today? Will there still be an engaged audience for repertoires of the past centuries? The conductor, Leon Botstein, didn’t seem to hold high expectations for The ...

A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets are among the highlights.

Director Todd Field has gone through great pains, including on a podcast for The Times, to explain his great effort to get the world of classical music right in “Tár.” A wealth of knowing chatter, ...

Apple Music Classical officially launches today, bringing an all-new classical music experience at no additional cost for Apple Music users. To celebrate the launch, Apple has published a new press ...