BalletMet rehearses for Director's Choice: A Collection of Short Ballets Fancy footwork might be the main attraction for many ballets. But three phenomenal works of classical music are the stars of ...

On video, soprano Noël Archambeault stood before her audience to perform a short classical piece drawn from a poem and set to music accompanied by piano. It’s a genre called art song, widely used as a ...

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, ...

Classical music is surprisingly controversial. For some, it’s a pinnacle of cultural achievement. For others it perpetuates class inequality and upholds “white middle class social domination”. To ...

For thirty minutes a day, I would sit down at a piano and play — or attempt to play — music by the great composers of the ...