However, something was lacking in my musical background — namely classical music. This was all but unknown to my parents and their friends. True, I think my mother had one friend whose husband was ...

A tense scene unfolds in a blockbuster film, the mood heightened not by thundering sound effects, but by the precise, haunting notes of a solo violin. This marriage of classical artistry and modern ...

The two-part expansive portrait of the iconic musician, 'And So It Goes' will air across two weeks later this month, clocking in at a total of five hours, and features interviews with Joel, his ...

The Truman Show follows the title character as he slowly but surely makes a disturbing discovery about his reality, and the reason why he only listens to classical music is heavily linked to it and ...

Is classical music in a "new golden age"? Heather Mac Donald recently argued this at length in City Journal, a right-leaning quarterly. Despite widespread pessimism, she takes the view that ...

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, ...