Over my many years of reviewing, I’ve often been asked for advice from newcomers to classical music, people excited by what they have heard, and eager to hear — and to learn — more. Naturally, I urge ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Here’s your introduction to the shining, stirring sounds of a revolutionary period in cultural history. In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or ...

Do you know how there are some songs you can listen to again and again without getting tired of them? These are songs you're always happy to hear -- while others get stale very quickly. When you ...

I posed a deceptively simple question to our writers and editors, as well as some artists we admire: What are the five minutes or so — longer than a moment, shorter than a symphony — that you’d play ...

The soundscape of classical music is changing, as it always has. For centuries composers have been using the influence of their surroundings to create high art. Oftentimes, this would mean a fusion of ...

When mellow cellos harmonized the “Baby Shark” theme, giggles of surprise and recognition rippled across the concert hall. When the bold trombone section grooved along on Neil Diamond’s “Sweet ...