"Fellow Travelers," which kicks off a national tour at Seattle Opera this month, tells a timely story of forbidden love during the McCarthy-era Lavender Scare. A clear expression of Seattle Symphony ...

At Rock on the Range in Columbus, Ohio this past weekend, there was a ton of old and new metal. You had the classics, like Judas Priest, Dillinger Escape Plan and Slash; favorites from the last decade ...

For great British pop musician David Bowie, classical music was one of many important influences, says Andrew Green ...

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, ...

Why do we focus on the bad news stories about cuts and crises in classical music ? Musicians are doing incredible things to engage, support and sustain us; we should tell those stories too When did ...

Few art forms on earth are more indebted to class privilege than Western classical music. For most of its history, it has relied on monarchs, aristocrats, and wealthy patrons even to exist. We have ...

Stop by the Moore Theatre Saturday night and you'll hear some amazing classical music. Wait, make that rock 'n' roll. No, make that punk; or is it world music? Or maybe funk? Actually, it's all those ...

What followed is a 55-year love affair with classical music — branching out to discover greats like Brahms, Bruch, Mahler, Chopin, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Elgar as well as lesser known ...

Ninety-six residents of the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater sat in rapt attention as a pianist, violinist and cellist played a 60-minute classical music concert Wednesday. The residents sat ...