Despite inhospitable political conditions, orchestral music and opera thrived in 2025.

The Dallas Morning News once described Terry Loftis as a “rainmaker” for the arts — certainly an apropos description of his time leading The Arts Community Alliance, which doles out grants to area ...

Composers used to like nothing better than to sit down at the harpsichord or pianoforte and improvise on their own works. Bach, Handel and Beethoven were as well known for their improvisations as for ...

Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprise ...

Although Yi and their classmates had a communal love for “Hamilton,” they had no idea what being involved in a musical was ...

Classical music is a scary thing. Many of the people who listen to it wear diapers, and I’m not talking about the generation that watches Baby Mozart. Most of the people who wrote classical music are ...

From left, Gustavo Dudamel, Pauchi Sasaki and Claire Chase, Peter Sellars (Photo illustration by Josep Prat Sorolla / For The Times; photographs by Etienne Laurent / For The Times, Maria Alejandra ...

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, ...

New England Public Media, based in Springfield, Massachusetts, is moving classical music off of its flagship 88.5 FM station to other locations on the dial. In a decision that NEPM leadership ...

In August 2021, Apple announced it had acquired classical music service Primephonic. At the time, Apple said it planned to launch a dedicated classical music app this year, but time is starting to run ...