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 ...

The importance of classical music, historically and culturally, cannot be overstated. The various periods in classical music reflect political, social and artistic movements from a given point in time ...

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Every summer Budapest hosts Festival Academy Budapest, a pioneering event where classical luminaries and future stars share the stage ...

The year is 1939. Hollywood’s golden age is in full swing. The Wizard of Oz takes us over the rainbow. Gone With The Wind sweeps across the South. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington stands up for what’s ...

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Rzewski (pictured below) has always been an eclectic composer, taking styles and ideas, from historical allusions to post-tonal harmonies, and combining them into lively and virtuosic piano works.

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, ...