It starts with a melody so hummable, you’re convinced you’ve always known it. Then Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto expands into a tour de force challenging the most accomplished pianists ...

State Government Awardee and acclaimed vocalist Gayatri Asokan presents Dhun Ki Katha – The Story of Indian Melody, an ...

Combining extended techniques with classical music traditions, George Crumb's work invites you to explore an entirely new world through sound. Welcome to our first post made in collaboration with the ...

Some music stays with you. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata is one of those pieces. Gentle, quiet, almost like a whisper—but full of feeling. It’s the kind of music that makes you pause, reflect, and get ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

In the early 1990s, I was in a chorus assigned to sing a contemporary classical piece that was, in a word, hideous. Almost willfully so, it seemed. It wasn’t in any home key — it was atonal — giving ...

Ask any self-respecting classical music aficionado who the greatest composer of all time is, and they’ll usually whittle down a shortlist of three key names: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van ...