With the biennial Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival concerts comes a need to sharpen one's grasp of critical musical language. Certain terms appear frequently on musical scores 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 ...

You may have heard the claim that listening to classical music makes you smarter. But is this just a myth, or does classical music really have an effect on the brain? Music, as they say, nourishes the ...

Concert halls and symphony orchestras try to lure younger listeners by mutilating the music. There’s a better way.

What is classical music’s place today? Will there still be an engaged audience for repertoires of the past centuries? The conductor, Leon Botstein, didn’t seem to hold high expectations for The ...

For a truly inspiring example of how to introduce classical music to youngsters, look no further than Australian children’s ...

Anne Midgette, classical music critic from the Washington Post, and NPR's Tom Huizenga look back over a decade of changes in the world of... Ten Questions For A Critic: The State Of Classical Music ...