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 ...

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 ...

I previously wrote an essay called "The Forest of Classical Music" about my somewhat unusual way of listening to classical music. In the first half, I would like to talk specifically about what kind ...

Classical music has long been viewed by many as a rarified genre that stands apart from other forms of music. While there is clearly something in that, something new is happening to the classical ...