Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and passionate songs took inspiration ... The rigid forms of classical music gave way to greater expression, and music grew closer to art, ...

Innovators – both entrepreneurs and corporate explorers – need to be iconoclasts, willing to challenge the status quo and ...

Josep Castanyer Alonso played the Christmas song "All I Want for Christmas Is You" on piano in the style of six classical ...

Indie folk sensation Conor Oberst used the melody to Beethoven ... famous ballads of all time, Carmen freely admitted that he lifted the chords for the verse of the song from the slow movement ...

The Grammy- and Academy Award-winning entertainer also sees Beethoven Blues bow at No. 9 on the Top Album Sales chart, with ...

Batiste re-imagines Beethoven compositions in his new album. It's "not that the original wasn't great and transcendent..." he says. "But there's also a lot of things since then that have happened." ...

Have you ever listened to a pop song ... classical giants. Sometimes, it's quite obvious: for example, the Electric Light Orchestra’s version of the song Roll Over Beethoven features music ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Batiste’s latest album is a return to his classical ... Beethoven’s music is “so very African, filled with polyrhythms, in two-meter and three-meter at once all ...

NPR's Eric Deggans speaks with musician and composer Jon Batiste about his new album, "Beethoven Blues," in which he riffs on classical favorites.