The upcoming Houston Music Festival will feature two events that present traditional chamber music in this new light, with ...

It's OK if you find some poetry boring or uninspiring, poet Laura Haskins writes, but keep looking for what you'll like.

The Water Goblin, an impish symphonic poem, makes for ideal Halloween listening ... known main theme to one of the best pieces of classical music for Halloween. This theme is repeated through ...

Polish composer Frédéric Chopin left an indelible mark on the world of classical music, and nearly 200 years after his death, ...

The bursting schedules of concerts at the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Centre and South Bank Centre, and the strength of music in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Cardiff, among other cities, show a ...

Classical music has proved time and time again to be the perfect calming antidote for your ... This particular cat, Jeoffry, comes from the religious poem, Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart. In the ...

Classical music has always played a key role in the life of 86-year-old German entrepreneur Klaus Heymann. At the age of nine, his mother took him to a live orchestra performance, which left a ...

Following successful collaborations with the Kontras Quartet and Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra earlier this year, the American Music Project wrapped its 10 th anniversary season Sunday afternoon ...

A production fusing traditional Chinese opera with Western classical music took place in London in October, with a performance inspired by the life of Cai Lun, the man credited with the invention of ...

Guest conductor Alastair Willis returns to lead the Illinois Symphony, nine years after his departure as music director.

The speaker is alone in the strictest sense, but he doesn’t seem to mind – he plays music, leads horses, takes walks. You don’t need to know Chinese to feel the poem in this song: a sense that far isn ...