The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Classical Music. Some love it. Some hate it. And some just love to hate it.

Join us as we hear some of classical music’s best-loved composers performed by young and established classical artists. Leave the emails, phone calls and stress behind and settle in for an hour of ...

On Jan. 28, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich woke up to read a sternly worded condemnation of his music in the official Soviet newspaper, Pravda. Never mind that the work in question (his opera “Lady Macbeth ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. There are certain classical pieces that are repeated so often at the ...

Certain ring tones have become extremely famous over the years — especially the default ones that people just can’t be bothered to change. Take Apple’s Marimba, for example. Or the classic Nokia ring ...

Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Brahms' Requiem and Puccini's Madam Butterfly have today been named among classical music's most tedium-inducing masterpieces. The poll, carried out by BBC Music ...

Watch a live webcast of artists from Juilliard's Historical Performance program performing early music on period instruments — live from The Greene Space at 1 pm ET on Wednesday, Feb. 6. Feb 6, 2019 ...

Ah, classical music. Whether we know it or not, we’ve heard it practically everywhere. From evergreen cartoons like Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes to popular movies 2001: A Space Odyssey, there are at ...

Premiering in 1937 in Frankfurt during the Third Reich, there is a ritualistic force to Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. This makes it a guilty pleasure for some and perfect fodder for ad jingles. It’s ...