Indeed, it is possible to date the chasm that was to develop between the populist mainstream and the classical avant-garde in music to this place and time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The art music of other cultures is also often called classical; for example, people speak of the classical music of India. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Until Columbus demonstrated that classical geography was hopelessly misconceived, the assumption was that the arguments of the ancients needed to be interpreted, not challenged. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton got me a bunch of different classical, Broadway, and jazz music tapes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The hold music snapped back on, this time a classical piece. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In civics class a great deal was said about oppressive Soviet policies; but at no time did I hear classical Marxism explained. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With its gorgeous classical buildings packed with art, its clean water and electric lights, and its overstaffed police department, the exposition was Chicago’s conscience, the city it wanted to become. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

You can speak, for example, of European classical or the European-American folk tradition, as opposed to Indian Classical50 , Japanese folk, or African-American musics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Going a bit further back, Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech, as it became known, was based on a classical allusion: “Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Part of the Marine Band from Biddle Island played light classical music as the pilots mingled and took their first drinks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I was over at the ranch, working in the bar, I would tune in to classical music. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Convenient as hell. Kinda classical, too. Those Greeks carried on with their brothers and sisters like nobody’s—whoops,” he said, retrieving the whiskey glass which was about to fall off the arm of his chair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A good performer will be familiar with dozens of ragas and can improvise music — traditional classical music in India is improvised — using the accepted format for each raga. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Mesopotamia had a legacy of astronomical observation going back at least a thousand years before the classical era. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But he spent most of his time off lying on the bed in his tiny room, listening to classical music and thinking. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at a hall in town, a place that usually showcased local bands, so the acoustics were terrible for unamplified classical. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a powerful lesson in classical music’s revolution. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In his church recitals he broke with tradition and featured classical songs by European composers along with traditional African American spirituals. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Quantum mechanics got rid of the zero in the classical theory of light—removing the infinite energy that supposedly came from every bit of matter in the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Slavery had sapped classical civilization of its vitality. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the study erroneously credited with the notion that listening to classical music, particularly the music of Mozart, made you more intelligent. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew the classical models of latter-day seclusion represented by Cincinnatus and described by Cicero and Virgil. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The count decorated it according to his personal taste, with a decadent, ambiguous refinement that startled Blanca, accustomed as she was to country life and her father’s classical sobriety. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Try being a classical actor and born in Utah. Hard to be taken seriously.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I hope to show in these final two chapters that, despite taking the odd experimental cul-de-sac on its journey, classical music has been alive and well since Reginald Fessenden’s test broadcast. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is hard to imagine what twentieth- century classical music would have done without ballet. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Yet however “quaint” the universes of the archaic or classical sages might have seemed by the third century, they were far from empirically disproven. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Bleeding, cupping, and purging are the classical illustrations, but we have plenty of more recent examples to be embarrassed about. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though she has acquired a taste for classical music over the years—“it’s like learning to appreciate a stinky cheese”—she’s been a not-always-delighted captive audience for many of my marathon rehearsals. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lamp on Dr. Roland’s desk cast a warm, buttery circle of light and, after turning the radio on low to the classical station in Boston, I settled on the couch with my French grammar. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Few classical composers made headway in film and many viewed it suspiciously or with condescension, as something only good enough for the paying of bills. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For all the scepticism of film music among ‘serious’ composers, cinema was a lifesaver for classical music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“One doesn’t have to understand something to like it. But, nonetheless, you’ll find that understanding classical music will increase your enjoyment of it.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could even whistle classical stuff, but most of the time he just whistled jazz. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Melissa changes the classical stuff and moves straight to rap. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Whether it wants it or not, classical music’s isolation from the commercial mainstream is history. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They put their feet up on the furniture, drank the senator’s Scotch straight from the bottle, and broke his classical records one by one. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows about Henry’s parentage, about his older siblings Philip and Beatrice, that he studied English literature at Oxford and plays classical piano. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Faced with the twin rebellions of dissonant modernism and the mass market, the classical tradition found an ace up its sleeve and played it with impeccable timing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Bentley was the greatest classical scholar of his age, but he would also become a Fellow of the Royal Society. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Toads only raced to music, specifically classical music, and winning depended not just on speed but on how much they could keep pace with the rhythm of a song. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The classical architecture of the White City made such a profound impression, Sullivan claimed, that it doomed America to another half-century of imitation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

According to the singularity theorems of classical general relativity, there would still have been a big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faced with achievements that seemed to have no classical parallel, Alberti nevertheless felt obliged to express himself with great caution: ‘surely’, ‘if I am not mistaken’, ‘probably’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As I walked up a marble stairway, a trio of musicians was playing classical music. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But as the largely self-educated son of a Kentucky farmer, he wasn’t able to tap into the knowingly arcane by-ways of classical history with which his predecessors were able to signal their patrician credentials. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

No cookbooks left open on the counter, no classical music on the kitchen sound system. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Steve Reich has been described as the single most influential composer of the late-twentieth century, bringing fresh ideas and impetus to both popular and classical music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is what is called a classical theory; that is, it does not take account of the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, as it should for consistency with other theories. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the classical music world, 80 percent of the information available to the maestros was removed, and lo and behold, the maestros suddenly exercised much better judgment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Only in a culture where the authority of the great classical authors such as Ptolemy and Galen had begun to be undermined could a project like Vesalius’s Fabric be undertaken. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The anesthesiologist, who stands near my head, requests classical. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the curvature of space-time becomes large, quantum gravitational effects will become important and the classical theory will cease to be a good description of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In classical texts, it was used to mark dropped letters, as in t’cius for “tertius”; and when English printers adopted it, this was still its only function. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Critics claimed the fair extinguished the Chicago School of architecture, an indigenous vernacular, and replaced it with a renewed devotion to obsolete classical styles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And the dramatic advances in technology in the twentieth century affected popular and classical music in very different ways. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He put the kids to bed, then sat and read, listening to classical music. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tyrant,” in the classical context, just means absolute ruler—though five will get you ten they were tyrants in the modern sense also. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He certainly did add ‘spirit’ to the meetings, and ‘a tone’ to the paper, for his orations convulsed his hearers and his contributions were excellent, being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but never sentimental. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor— coming from a humble background—could he automatically be expected to have a confident grasp of classical rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Up to this point in musical history - the first few years of the twentieth century - ethnic folk elements had been co-opted into classical music as subsidiary exotic flavouring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I’m drawn to it for a very simple reason: the classical music world had a problem—and they fixed it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Wilfred then said that I was welcome to listen to his vast collection of classical composers, mostly German, in his living room whenever I wanted to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if you had to water skyscrapers, and play classical music to them, and know if they like sun or shade? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Osage have long been linked to the world of classical dance, having produced two of the greatest ballerinas, the sisters Maria and Marjorie Tallchief. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Geographical knowledge in the classical period of fifth to fourth centuries bce—the times of Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Sophocles, and Aristotle—was not much broader than in Homer’s day, four hundred years earlier. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Half a mile downstream, Lord Nugent’s boat slammed into the landing at the foot of a great lawn leading up to a white building in the classical style. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The prospect of traveling back to this delightful state of things is held out by nearly every writer who touches upon classical mythology, above all by the poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That classical music stuff makes you drift off worse than NyQuil, then fires you awake soon as the violins get to screaming. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

With Bobby, Fine wanted to first gain the boy’s trust and respect by playing chess, and then begin classical Freudian analysis, in tandem with the group process. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Shorter works, even in classical style, are less likely to have complete modulations. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I never learned to play a musical instrument, but I loved to listen to classical music. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“All he does is work on the model for the new junior high school. He goes over and over it. He moves a pillar here, then another one there. It’s not classical enough,’ he says. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Gramps and I listened to classical music and farm reports on the radio when we could pick up a station. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So these classical laws would have ruled out any possibility of time travel. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man pointed out strengths and weaknesses whenever heroes met in classical battles, but warfare makes a scramble of the beautiful, slow old fights. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compare: Does the Music Therapy selection on the Mood/Relaxed channel on Spotify create the same physical reaction as any of the classical adagio selections suggested above? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the visual arts, the term classical refers to ancient Greece and Rome. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Hearing develops from about 19 to 26 weeks of the pregnancy when the inner ear matures, and babies respond to voices and classical music by turning towards it and relaxing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Tchaikovsky’s ballet scores are still among the most popular pieces in the classical repertoire. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Indian classical music, for example, does not contain harmony, but only the three textures of a melody, rhythm, and a drone. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

As one would expect, the word caught on more rapidly in North America than in Britain, where scientists continued to have a classical education. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My father saw my interest in classical music as another sign that I was trying to be white. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will be called,” Mrs. Baker told us, “Operation Pegasus. Now, someone tell me the meaning of the classical allusion.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They then appear to us as what a classical physicist would call waves, such as waves of light or gravitational waves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the books about the stories of classical mythology depend chiefly upon the Latin poet Ovid, who wrote during the reign of Augustus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This intense-repetition type of cyclic form is very common in folk musics around the world and often finds its way into classical and popular musics, too. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Two parents, contemporary pop and contemporary classical, gave birth to a child that was a perfect mix of them both. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But it was also the start of a process whereby, in classical music, the old soon far outweighed the new. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In classical Latin you demonstrate something by pointing it out with your finger. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“He’s a classical music person but loath to admit it in public because it’s such a Western taste.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Whether the music is classical, modern, jazz, or pop, listen for repeated sections of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a classical way to approach the game, and it leads to a very different configuration as the game progresses; but Bobby took the chance. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

However, as we have seen, classical general relativity predicts its own downfall. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my clothes into a neat pile, light the candle, and tune the radio to a classical station. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The theory predicted that light reaching the Earth from distant stars would be bent by the gravitational field of the sun to a much greater degree than was predicted by classical Newtonian physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I tried to make out whether they were members of the family or what; but they were all uniformly classical. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Alex learns Henry’s super into classical mythology and can rattle off the configurations of a few dozen constellations if you let him get going. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Effects of exposure to classical music on the musical preferences of pre-school children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

People were enjoying classical music, certainly, but what this mountain of material demonstrated was a near fatal shift: in classical music away from the new to the old. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The advice comes from classical rhetoric, and it makes sense for long orations: if a listener’s mind momentarily wanders, the passage she has missed is gone forever. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

So at first there was not one Scientific Revolution but two, one exemplified by Newton’s classical physics, the other by Rutherford’s nuclear physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The formation of the Roman state and the expansion of the Macedonian Empire under Alexander were described in detail by contemporary classical authors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“To tell the truth,” said the Dean, “I’d expected something a little more classical. Oil lamps. Discus throwing. Nude youths wrestling on the floor.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In 1752 David Hume published an essay, ‘Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations’, pointing out that the figures we find in classical texts are meaningless. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a textbook for the class, just the picture book of paintings and a few CDs of classical compositions. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Because they are so closely related, they sound particularly good together, a fact that has been noticed since at least the times of classical Greece, and probably even longer. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Airy music is playing, classical piano, floating from speakers in the walls. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By actual count, there are more words of classical than of Anglo-Saxon origin in the English vocabulary,—probably two and a half times as many of the former as of the latter. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of which brings us to the key point: the ancients, particularly in the classical period, had no notion that equates exactly with our modern conception of “science.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The nearest thing classical music had to a genuine political dissident in the 1930s was the Hungarian modernist Bela Bartok. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was no wonder Seven’s toad was the worst; he hated music and croaked loudly whenever she tried to train him using any of the approved classical music for training. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

So the original classical music comes from one fairly short era. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Roughly halfway along the front there was a wide row of steps, surmounted by a portico where classical columns supported a pediment….Was that a figure among the columns? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We usually do a completely classical program for the spring concert.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the Islamic world had its eye on the ball, and most of the classical texts we have now were preserved in Arabic translation. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

What if the legal community took a page from the classical music world? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the modal music category, medieval chant and the classical music of India are easiest to find. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The terrifying irrational has no place in classical mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

For classical music as a whole, the 1920s were marked by deep fissures in the previously unchallenged prestige of Western ‘art’ music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The men were dressed in expensive dashikis, and the women wore long classical Ethiopian gowns. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every night there was some kind of performance, including classical concerts performed by instrumental students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Orff method makes use of nursery rhymes, folktales, folksongs, folkdances, and authentic, classical compositions—all music and literature of primary importance and quality. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She performed as a soloist with many of the nation’s leading orchestras and became immensely popular with radio audiences, appearing regularly on The Bell Telephone Hour, a classical program broadcast weekly over the NBC network. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Experts in the classical music world tackled the problem by addressing the way in which the instinctive judgments in auditions were made. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Steve Reich exemplified the minimalist movement that bridged the chasm between classical music and pop in the 1970s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His collection was vast: classical, jazz, a ton of rock, five albums that featured Tuvinian throat singers. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In the back they keep a stash of twenty-five-cent classical records that nobody ever seems to buy except me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, what the singularity theorems really indicate is that the gravitational field becomes so strong that quantum gravitational effects become important: classical theory is no longer a good description of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anyone tells you classical music is dead in the twenty-first century, all it means is that they don’t go to the cinema. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This story, so like the Renaissance idea of the classical—fantastic, delicately decorated, bright-colored—is taken entirely from a poem of the third-century Alexandrian poet Moschus, by far the best account of it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, observation became an adjunct to experiment, both producing reliable facts in place of the unreliable, unspecific ‘experience’ which underlay so much classical and medieval discussion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For the new scientists of the second half of the seventeenth century were in a quite different position from their classical, Arab and medieval predecessors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the classical theory of general relativity one cannot predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, all the clocks were alive, and they were dancing to classical music. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

This dark picture is worlds apart from the stories of classical mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she loved that he’d rebelled against us, or so she thought, and she thought it was something that you rebelled all over again by becoming a classical musician. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not obvious to us because in due course classical discoveries came to be linked to the names of their discoverers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Generations of Fowls glared down at him from classical portraits. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

What’s more, this was Germany, the land where classical music was born. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for Einstein, the laws of quantum mechanics work incredibly well, and you can’t successfully explain quantum effects with traditional classical physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This tally of instruments, occasionally beefed up by timpani and trumpets, was the template for the classical orchestra as used by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and their contemporaries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I want the classical-music station, but recognizing that I’m the only classical fan in the family, I am willing to compromise with Shooting Star. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the classical genetic assumption that male and female cells contribute equal amounts of genetic material, even though the resulting analysis was perversely complex. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The enormous white-columned hotel, built in the classical revival style, sprawled on a manicured estate in the middle of White Sulphur. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Displaying classical knowledge was a way of demonstrating education and sophistication—it was, if you like, an ethos appeal in itself. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Not by rethinking the entire classical music enterprise or building new concert halls or pumping in millions of new dollars, but by paying attention to the tiniest detail, the first two seconds of the audition. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

After that, seriousness, confrontation and challenge were classical music’s guiding stars. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, I’m shying away from ancient classical names. And besides, if he has a Mexican name, then maybe he’ll feel more Mexican.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

NOTE: Although a large group of people who play classical music together is often called a symphony, the more accurate term for the group is orchestra. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Lacking any sense of classical psychology, the actor played his halfhuman character as pure movie monster. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the 1700's, Western Europeans became very interested in the ancient classical style, which was imitated by many artists, sculptors, and architects. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if learning about ancient Greece and classical philosophy is going to get me anywhere, but it’s not like trig is going to get me anywhere, either. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But right from the get-go, I could see that there was something different about playing my kind of music, something more than my parents’ obvious bewilderment with my classical tastes. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

First steps in classical music: Keeping the beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Concepts: As a genre, we believe opera to be a classical form, complicated, and with a long tradition and heritage rooted in the European classical tradition. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was popular in classical days, and several writers told it in whole or part. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the Cittàgazze side, they were in a grassy park surrounding a classical villa that gleamed white in the moonlight. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the music would be classical: Brahms, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, or Bach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Closer, crowned with her own sunrays and dressed like a classical Greek, the Statue of Liberty welcomed them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

So classical atomism, as revised and reconstructed in the seventeenth century by Gassendi, Descartes and others, explained nature in terms of interacting particles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He played violin and read music and composed it, mostly classical and religious music. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today was our first music appreciation lesson, and we listened to a classical opera song, followed by some big-band jazz tunes from Duke Ellington. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This phenomenon, causing sparks with a beam of light, was very puzzling to classical physicists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Musical surrealism and attempts at finding what the future of sound might be ran, somewhat surprisingly, alongside another avenue being explored by classical composers in the 1920s: rummaging around in music’s attic. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If you look at the classical nature painting above, you will see a lot of “white space.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Dad had spent the spring reading out loud from the camp’s literature, but the only thing I’d cared about was that I was going to camp with other classical musicians. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rise of literacy, of the culture of writing and reading and bookselling, had reached a critical stage in the classical period. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It is nothing like the noses you see in classical Greek sculpture. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The music of Mozart, Haydn, and the early works of Beethoven are in this style, which we call classical rather than neoclassical, because the original classical music of ancient Greece and Rome is lost. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Of the fifty students, about half did jazz, the other half classical, so it was a small crew. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twentieth century put enormous pressure on classical composers to carve out a new role for themselves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Sure, if you like the classical look,” Tucker mumbled. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

That is not to say that some classical musicians did not attain fame and success, but these were mostly singers, conductors and virtuoso players, making their names with Verdi, Mahler, Mozart or Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the case of the classical musicians’ auditions, the maestros were incapable of making a fair judgment about how well someone was playing if they could see them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I was raised by the music community, with dozens of aunties and uncles who took me in as their own little foundling, even after I started showing a strange preference for classical music. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We do know that Brunelleschi, in his search for new architectural forms, had made a study of the surviving classical buildings in ancient Rome, a study which involved taking measurements and drawing plans and elevations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The arrangment of the figures recalls that of classical Graces, or else of the different-colored children wreathed around Jesus on the front of my old Sunday school paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe years of meticulous fieldwork—rather than years of classical education—allowed her to observe more keenly. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

How was classical music going to respond to this new, potentially fatal relationship between mass audiences and new genres that were irresistible to them? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the classical theory of general relativity, there are many different possible curved space-times, each corresponding to a different initial state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A collection of classical records is not the kind of thing you advertise. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the songs by European classical composers like Giuseppe Verdi and Franz Schubert that she had heard Roland Hayes sing in church, and that she now began to learn. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He read classical authors as if they were his contemporaries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A newly composed classical opera in the late-twentieth century was like Beluga caviar: a shockingly expensive commodity from an endangered species, accessible to a very privileged few but an inconceivable luxury to the rest. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“My mother plays a lot of classical music around the house — I only know my favorites.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Particularly pleasing was the possibility that Joshua might be so stuck on his classical way of thinking that I would accomplish the unbelievable feat of beating him to the correct interpretation of his own experiments. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There is another set of names that is commonly used, particularly in classical music, to talk about harmonic relationships. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But over the past few decades, the classical music world has undergone a revolution. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The work that eventually emerged from all this anguish, his fifth symphony, premiered in November 1937, is now recognised as one of the classical masterpieces of the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He claims he’s listening to French classical, that it helps him concentrate. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Week One looks like this: “More of a chart, then,” Mrs. de Roo said, “than a diary in the classical mode, as such?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was not sending away for classical music CDs by mail, working his way methodically through the major composers that the catalogue recommended, and always sending his payments in on time. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In this approach, a particle does not have just a single history, as it would in a classical theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of how many other classical works since the Second World War is it possible to make that statement? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

However, as has been described in earlier chapters, the classical laws were superseded by quantum laws based on the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some suggestions: an unaccompanied violin or cello sonata, a flute, oboe, trumpet, or horn concerto, Asaian or native American flute music, classical guitar, bagpipes, steel pan drums, panpipes, or organ. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And indeed, introducing classical music to the masses became something of a mission for post-war governments. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Karen had probably saw my hands in class and knew they were like classical hands or something. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she soothed him with classical music, sometimes she played popular songs, singing along in her husky melodic voice. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t Odenigbo then be said to adore the Western culture that produced classical music?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Real gravitons make up what classical physicists would call gravitational waves, which are very weak—and so difficult to detect that they have not yet been observed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For classical and Renaissance authors every well-known animal or plant came with a complex chain of associations and meanings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For example, the dinosaurs may have been exterminated by the impact of an asteroid whose orbit was completely determined by the laws of classical mechanics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alex tries not to be in awe of the simple agility of his hands, tries not to think about classical piano or how swift and smooth years of polo have trained Henry to be. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Then why do you say classical music is the best?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the growing commercial confidence of Broadway and Hollywood musicals and of their songwriters blossomed at a time when classical music was struggling to find a sense of purpose beyond mere experimentation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But this was the great divide between the two genres: in pop, being new was a bonus; in classical, it had become a hurdle. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At school, my friends began to taunt me for liking classical music. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spends his days cooking meals, reading, listening to classical music. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes later in the afternoon, we would listen to classical music, and Papa Will would sit on the big green velvet chair in the living room. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But she changes it back to classical again as soon as Dad leaves the room. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

If it had been left to the Italians, classical music would have made it to the modern age without so much as a scratch, still completely mainstream, still loved by everyone. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The fact that the ‘new’ was narrowly defined as ‘contemporary classical’ rather than, say, bebop is indicative of this. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The classical civilization that created them disintegrated, and the library itself was deliberately destroyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on Saturday there had been a concert of classical Indian music up at Columbia. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because it did not exist in classical Latin discooperio never established itself as a respectable term; in any case, discovery was such a new concept that at first it required explication. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Where titles are concerned, classical music has its own variations on the theme. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those were probably classical pieces, but they were the ones she remembered best. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Escapist fun was not, by and large, a route chosen by classical composers in the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The world of classical music—particularly in its European home—was until very recently the preserve of white men. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Brunelleschi would have had plenty of practice in applying this knowledge when he set out to measure the height of surviving classical buildings in Rome in 1402-4. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When she pops the tape in the player, classical music pours out of the speakers. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A quiet, private man who liked good wine, classical music, and books. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Why is it that people connect classical music to expensive stuff? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Another tradition at Baker & Inglis: every year the eighth graders put on a classical Greek play. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Indian classical forms more than make up for an absence of harmony with highly complex and intricate melodies and rhythms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But classical music’s DNA is also embedded everywhere in the popular mainstream, whether in the stage musical, the cinema or in the albums of, say, The Beades, Paul Simon, The Verve or Alicia Keys. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

While modern classical music had its challenges, older music was encountering its own difficulties in the twentieth century, despite - or indeed because of - an explosion in recordings in the 1960s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Unlike in classical Athens, however, the power of the city’s civil servants was entirely circumscribed by the king’s, preserving only the outward form, not the substance, of self-government. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In this approach the particle is not supposed to have a single history or path in space-time, as it would in a classical, nonquantum theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it true that classical music has been slowly suffocated in its sleep over the past hundred years? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It’s also customary to drop the final s when forming the possessives of ancient classical or biblical names that already end in s: Whose biceps were bigger, Hercules’ or Achilles’? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the corpus of writings in classical Nahuatl, the language of the Alliance, is even larger than the corpus of texts in classical Greek. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But nowhere was the rout of classical music’s previous position of dominance more clearly seen than in musical theatre. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Hank, a retired professor of classical archaeology, always brings a small volume of Greek poetry to read, his long sun-spotted fingers curling over the tops of the pages. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Astrology, which has flourished from the days of ancient Babylon down to today, is completely absent from classical Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, there were some fundamental changes before 1608, but in many respects Renaissance science was essentially an extension of classical science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She never listened to anything but classical music while she worked, because she said songs with words were too distracting. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In classical Latin, from which the phrase derives, an orbis is usually a flat disc, but sometimes it is an orb or globe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was no way to test our dreams, however, unless Rosy did an about-face from her determination to rely completely on classical X-ray diffraction techniques. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There is no translation for this in classical Latin or Elizabethan English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His fingers were long and nimble, and as he moved, his hand quitting the piece with a flourish, he looked like a classical pianist playing a concerto. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He misses being in his suite in Farnam, smoking one of Brandon’s cigarettes, listening to music with Jonathan, learning how to tell the classical composers apart. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the music that came out wasn't...it wasn't classical, but... Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

In smaller cinemas a pianist or organist would provide a similarly live accompaniment; Russian classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich supported himself in Leningrad in 1924-5 by doing just that. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She carried a book on famous classical architecture, written in Ancient Greek, to read when she got bored, and a long bronze knife, hidden in her shirt sleeve. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In 2004 the annual cocktail party and auction for the Nantucket Historical Association instituted valet parking and a classical quartet in black tie. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After the movie ended and the lights came on to illuminate the murals of Tuscany and the painted classical galleries around us, Leper still sat amazed in his folding chair. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When all the papers have been handed out, he tells us to start and turns on some classical music. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In some cultures like India, even the classical music is transmitted aurally, with almost no notated music at all. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The books used a “graded” curriculum with successively more complex songs and exercises, and combined author-composed songs in these books with folk and classical material. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the women had already unmasked, so Char would be sure to see their lovely eyes or classical noses. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everett was showily classical, but Lincoln’s classicism purrs powerfully under the hood. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The following week, the school board met to decide on the model for the new junior high school—which was probably why Mr. Kowalski had been spending all his time muttering “classical, classical, classical.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He notices the Lennon obituary pinned to the bulletin board, and then a cassette of classical Indian music he’d bought for Gogol months ago, after a concert at Kresge, still sealed in its wrapper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is no word in classical Greek or Latin for a fact, and no way of translating the sentences above from the OED into these languages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

People always assume that because I am into classical music, I’m a jazz aficionado. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main difficulty in finding a theory that unifies gravity with the other forces is that general relativity is a “classical” theory; that is, it does not incorporate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the news is over, we turn to the classical station. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That one branch of the family tree had begun to own the term ‘popular’ was to many classical music aficionados in itself a revealing and disturbing fact of life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

German stations may only be tuned in to listen to classical music. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It became de rigueur among architecture critics and historians to argue that Burnham in his insecurity and slavish devotion to the classical yearnings of the eastern architects had indeed killed American architecture. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There is no evidence for large-scale cultivation of apples even in the Fertile Crescent and in Europe until classical Greek times, 8,000 years after the rise of Eurasian food production began. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I get in, classical music plays quietly. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Imagine!” exclaimed Tucker Mouse, “he plays pop as well as classical.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many people this would have been their first experience of a live orchestra playing what was, in all but name, classical music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What the classical music world realized was that what they had thought was a pure and powerful first impression—listening to someone play—was in fact hopelessly corrupted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When the news went to commercial, the ad jingle was a piece of classical music. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There are a lot more classical gods and goddesses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, not everyone has welcomed the meltdown between classical music and the diverse forms of popular music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If we multiply by a hundred thousand our sense of loss for this work of Aristarchus, we begin to appreciate the grandeur of the achievement of classical civilization and the tragedy of its destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, the classical music of India recognizes twenty-two different possible pitches within an octave; each raga uses five, six, or seven of these possible pitches. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Think of the classical tradition of rhetoric as a river: as it flows forward to the present day, it takes several twists and turns, and in some places it plunges underground. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Even today there is no greater venom among hardcore classical music champions than that reserved for so-called 'crossover’ artists who dare to pollute the pure waters of the classical repertoire by appealing to the masses. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On their right a wide and graceful parkland led up to a great house with a classical portico as brilliant as icing sugar under the moon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Georgia Governor Zell Miller, in 1998, proposed sending every newborn in the state a copy of a classical CD based on this supposed “effect.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

So instead of being influenced by the sound of ancient Greek music, eighteenth-century composers were influenced by the ideals of classical art. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Indian classical music is usually accompanied by a tanpura, which plays a drone background. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

All those problems delayed the domestication of apples, pears, plums, and cherries until around classical times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A web search for classical music from a particular country may turn up some sound clips. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It would be a while before new classical music set the pace of change. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And what he’s chiefly remembered for is a heroic attempt to domesticate the figures and tropes of classical oratory by giving them English names and English examples. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s a concert tomorrow at MUSON. Do you like classical music?” he asked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At a time of struggle for the classical music business this year’s festival, like last year’s, promises nothing but exhilaration. Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-24T20:03:40Z

But it remains unclear how much traction the app can get in a crowded streaming market, in which Apple competes with behemoths like Spotify as well as dedicated classical services like Idagio. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

The “classical logical error of post hoc ergo propter hoc” McElwee ascribes to New Atheists simply does not exist. The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z

In 2015, she decided to fully pursue art, telling stories that centered Black identity, reimagining stories of classical mythology and Catholicism, and infusing her work with the origin myths of Santeria. How Three Artists Are Exploring Mythology and Race 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Tár represents a radically different face of classical music. In ‘Tár,’ a Female Maestro Falls Into the Same Old Traps 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Is it just the term 'classical music' that puts young people off then? Composer of the Week marks 70 years 2013-08-02T07:21:46Z

Anne Midgette is the classical music critic for The Washington Post. The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Erected principally during the 1970s and 1980s, the district sports a Hellenic theme, and the towering blocks of ersatz classical buildings suggest a Las Vegas casino complex that was sold off as public housing. 36 Hours in Montpellier, France 2012-08-09T19:11:35Z

Her mother, a contralto, had the opportunity to study classical music in New York but instead became a homemaker. Anita Kerr, an Architect of the Nashville Sound, Dies at 94 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

You get a firsthand sense of the complex stop-and-start movement and expansion and contraction of space that classical garden design creates. Art Review: ‘Chinese Gardens,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-08-16T21:59:52Z

But classical music also is often used as a plot point. Perspective | When classical music becomes another character in a movie 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Valerie Johnston just finished a master’s in acting, which means her code-switching is expert as she bounces between classical characters and ghetto caricatures. Review | ‘Smart People’ puts race under a comic microscope 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Those who watched the classical-music recording business decline over the past 30 years still wonder whether the phenomenal success of the Three Tenors fatally warped the expectations and priorities of the great classical labels. Perspective | Even opera lovers should grit their teeth and watch this mediocre Pavarotti film 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

There is also the Sony CD, his first strictly classical album, portentously called “The Italian Tenor.” The Great Tenor Hope (Just Ask Him) 2010-10-14T16:47:00Z

In German, music is divided not between “pop” and “classical” but between “serious” music and “entertaining” music. Review | Serious music, from Turkey to the Colorado 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

As the old studio short-subject departments were shut down and television loomed, big-screen spectacles proved attractive nominees, as well as orchestral recordings of classical standards. Every Film in This Oscar Category Is an Underdog You Can Root for 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Labeled “the godfather of world music” by George Harrison, Shankar helped millions of classical, jazz and rock lovers discover the centuries-old traditions of Indian music. Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies at 92 2012-12-12T05:06:00Z

But in the late ’60s, after his classic quartet disbanded, his work shifted, turning more toward classical forms and social issues. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Ms. Marston said she was very conscious of the way that classical ballet suggests gender roles. A Ballet ‘Jane Eyre’? Reader, She Dances With Him 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Today he scouts talent for a philanthropist friend who gives grants to promising young musicians, and he hosts a weekly classical music show on Radio Shalom Romania. ‘God Was on Vacation’: A Visit With a Long-Lost Cousin in Romania Is a Holocaust Lesson 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

“I usually play classical music in my kitchen, but now it might morph into something a little bit more hip-hop-y.” Snoop Dogg Thinks Martha Stewart Is a 'Dope Lyricist' 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Out of all the Cunningham repertory Septet is one the few works that's been widely performed by other companies, both classical and modern. MoveTube: A sublime snippet of Merce Cunningham dancing Septet 2012-05-23T13:02:50Z

“For too long, the world of classical music has been seen as exclusive, with a huge barrier to entry — in its transparency, the Bowes Center invites the public in and builds connection.” New San Francisco center to share classical music with all 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Music from Max Richter's album "Infra" blends classical, electronic and rock influences with terrific, haunting effect. Review: Alan Cumming's 1-man 'Macbeth' stunning 2013-04-22T00:16:04Z

The bridge weeks between the end of the bounteous classical season and the vivacious festivals of summer are a time when quirky concerts sprout in the cracks of a suddenly arid plain. Cultural Clicks: Frida Kahlo’s Lovers and Parenting Advice from Metallica’s James Hetfield 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Unlike many classical performers at Le Poisson Rouge they played without amplification, and they sounded all the better for it. Music Review: Violinist Adds Intimate Stage to a Concert Hall Week 2011-03-02T23:02:56Z

Ross says of this bizarre irruption of the classical verities into the most extreme of contemporary contingencies: "the symphony became a tactical strike against German morale." The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z

Are you a classical person or a punk person? Chloë Grace Moretz Talks 'If I Stay' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

It can start to seem a little unfair to the rest of the contemporary classical scene to put albums by this crew in every year-end list. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Johnson deftly renders the contours and textures of human flesh, painted in a classical style. Review | In the galleries: From artist Timothy Johnson, a heady exhibition 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The Knights, a chamber orchestra, will be joined on July 9 by the jazz and classical pianist Aaron Diehl for Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and selections from Mary Lou Williams’s “Zodiac Suite.” Tanglewood Is Back This Summer, With Beethoven and Yo-Yo Ma 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

In the pages below, you'll find seven lists of seasonal events: festivals, dance performances, arts & crafts shows, classical concerts, Christmas ships, pop concerts and plays. Holiday Entertainment: The great Seattle Times holiday scavenger hunt is on 2010-11-25T05:01:00Z

She was always drawn, she said, to soft, expressive movements, and grew up imitating the dances of Madhuri Dixit, 54, a Bollywood film star who was trained in the north Indian classical dance genre kathak. A Graceful Place Where Bhangra and Bollywood Meet 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Crowds were large but moved at a leisurely pace, giving our tour group time to examine at length the classical European works that dominate its displays. Into the Baltic Sea, but out of the Cold: Revisiting Berlin and St. Petersburg 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

As Carnegie’s promotional materials put it, Beethoven “rouses our spirits, moves us to tears, and inspires our most profound thoughts”; he is “without challenge the face of Western classical music.” Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

It’s an ambitious, audacious album, to say the least, one that strives to push past the confines of hip-hop in its embrace of funk, soul, gospel and the genre often dubbed America’s classical music — jazz. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The original building, a massive, U-shaped classical temple of art, is unapologetically old-fashioned in its use of elevation as an architectural metaphor for the experience of art. Review | Gehry renovation at the Philadelphia Art Museum is stunning and sleek, but suits the old building 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

It’s at once classical and futuristic — gothic oratory meets Millennium Falcon. | New Provocations From the Belgian Bad Boy Wim Delvoye 2013-05-16T19:00:48Z

The architect abandoned classical elements for the clean lines and industrial materials of the International Style while also incorporating contextual solutions for the Finnish landscape. Step Inside Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto’s Vyborg Library 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

“I hope they’ll have a meaningful impact on the world of classical music and beyond, and we hope that it will bring in revenue.” Transformative Juilliard President Will Step Down After Three Decades 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

A declaration of musical independence for a new generation, “Beethoven” was initially aimed at Mr. Berry’s younger sister, who monopolized the family piano practicing classical music. 15 Essential Chuck Berry Songs 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

In classical dance, female choreographers are rare indeed, and the dynamics of vocational ballet schooling are at least partly responsible. Sexism in dance: where are all the female choreographers? 2013-04-28T08:00:33Z

George Balanchine’s “Jewels,” choreographed in 1967, is an anthology of ballet history, a densely packed guide to the evolution of classical dance over the last 150 years. Dance Review: Three Gems of the Here and Now 2011-06-06T22:04:19Z

The federal appeals court judge, now based in Denver, telegraphs seriousness of purpose and manliness in the classical mode. Neil Gorsuch: A Supreme Court Nominee Who Looks the Part 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

He was a self-described introvert and intellectual who much preferred the company of close friends and his shelves of classical music. Louis Jourdan, who epitomized Gallic charm in Hollywood movies, dies at 93 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

She had wanted to be a classical pianist but she grew up poor and she graduated from college during the Depression and her career took a different turn. Roz Chast and Patricia Marx Mine the Mother Lode 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

While he preferred not to speak about race, he was celebrated as a pioneer who defied stereotypes about classical music and helped open doors for aspiring artists of color. André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

They were taught the fundamentals of classical, Russian and Soviet Realist art during the waning of the cultural thaw introduced under Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev following the death of his predecessor, Joseph Stalin. Soviet Pop Art Duo Reunites for First U.S. Retrospective Since Their Breakup 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

"It's nice that people who don't normally listen to classical music are listening to classical music," she told a crush of journalists, wearing a snug black-and-white minidress and a black lace shrug. ArtsBeat: Now 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Has Musical Accompaniment 2012-09-18T16:29:58Z

For those who prefer a more refined respite, Bargemusic in Brooklyn is offering free admission to several afternoon classical music concerts. Weekend Miser: Urban Camping, Bargemusic, Museum Mile Festival 2010-06-03T22:18:00Z

Is President Trump going to sign an order mandating classical architecture? Review | It’s easy to see Millet’s influence on other painters. It’s harder to see his genius. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

For players devoted to the instrument in its classical form, the guitar’s seemingly universal accessibility can be both a blessing and a curse. Critic?s Notebook: Marathon at 92nd St. Y to Wrap Up Guitar Festival 2012-01-26T23:38:46Z

In October at Sadler’s Wells in London, he will present “A Quiet Evening of Dance,” described as a “distillation of the geometric origins of classical ballet.” Our Critics Pick the Dance Moves (and Objects) to See This Fall 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

“There is a lot of improvisation in Indian classical music,” Mr. Neiburger said. A Raga Renaissance Flowers in Brooklyn 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Their music goes through influences of progressive rock, 70s funk, dub, jazz, classical music and even punk rock. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z

Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times’s chief classical music critic, recently wrote an essay arguing that blind auditions — long seen as an equalizer in American orchestras — were no longer tenable. Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

He brought Indian classical music to a new mass audience, while constantly experimenting with fusions of Indian themes with western classical or jazz styles. Ravi Shankar: the Beatles' muse who turned his back on rock 2012-12-12T20:43:56Z

For the first program, the idea was to reach a broader public by engaging a pop star with a jones for classical music: the singer-songwriter Ben Folds, who wrote a full-bore piano concerto last year. Concert designed to blend best of pop and classical offers neither 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

He was thrilled when the classical pianist agreed to compose music for his show, matching the emotion of the collection at Gurung’s direction. Prabal Gurung celebrates the churning creative energy of NYC 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

On the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, I went to see two classical Greek tragedies about the toll of war on the human psyche. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Valdés Reyes sought to establish her own musical identity by immersing herself in classical music and performing abroad. A New Vanguard of Women in Cuban Jazz 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

So the news that Mr. Salonen, 60, will become the next music director of the San Francisco Symphony, which the orchestra announced on Wednesday, is sure to stun the classical music field. San Francisco Symphony Lands a Disrupter: Esa-Pekka Salonen 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

I felt nervous playing it to my aunt, who sat behind me on the flowery sofa in the attitude of secret resistance she always assumed for classical music. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z

To some classical musicians, the approach thus described is simplistic; to many listeners, the result is inspiring, yielding a shimmering and deeply felt beauty. Arvo Pärt, sounding the depth of still waters

Heyward said that his own experience of falling in love with classical music had convinced him of its enduring appeal. Baltimore Symphony’s New Conductor Breaks a Racial Barrier 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

She is a wonderful, gossipy woman who converted the building, an old Arab house with classical features, into the most romantic if-you-know-you-know place in town. 11 Hotels to Visit in Your Dreams 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

In classical music, concepts like this have been handled with mixed success. Yo-Yo Ma Is Finding His Way Back to Nature Through Music 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

"We, in a way, turned the convention of classical museums upside down," co-founder Vištica says by email from Zagreb, pointing out that traditionally, exhibition placards serve to provide factual information about the item on exhibit. Museum of Broken Relationships puts heartbreak on display 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Breuker occasionally brought his idiosyncrasies into the classical realm, with pieces for brass ensembles, carillons and symphony orchestras. Willem Breuker, Dutch Composer and Bandleader, Dies at 65 2010-07-29T06:19:00Z

And it provides the unexpected link between two extraordinary sculptors, working five centuries apart, who each updated the classical sculpture tradition for new audiences looking with new eyes. In the Swim of Digital Images, There’s Nothing Boring About Sculpture 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

The comparisons grew more lavish until, by the end of his life, he was exhibiting alongside the classical master Nicolas Poussin. The great upstager: how Monet made Turner and Twombly look ordinary 2012-06-19T18:33:01Z

While shaped along classical lines, the traditional concerto balance is altered by the absence of any conflict between soloist and orchestra: attention is held instead by the soloist's intricate engagement with a succession of instruments. BBCNOW/Outwater | Classical review 2010-03-19T22:05:00Z

"It was a lot of giving on both of us," said Lemmon, who graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with degrees in classical piano and composition and theater. Chris Lemmon channels his Pops in 'Jack Lemmon Returns' 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Equilbey grew up in Paris and Germany and discovered classical music at boarding school, where she learned several instruments and sang. Balloons, iPads, Aquarium: A Conductor Creates a ‘Creation’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Namkung, who trained as a classical musician, writes that in his work he aims to impart an "impression of sound, music, emotion or philosophy ... not just visual sensations." Adams, Namkung: nature at Woodside/Braseth 2011-09-29T20:05:03Z

In one video two young men engage in a classical fencing match that goes on for about 10 minutes then stops abruptly. Art Review: You Must Remember This 2011-08-18T21:47:02Z

She hired Gustavo Dudamel, when he was still in his 20s and little-known, as music director and helped him become a charismatic new face of classical music and a fearless artistic leader. New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

More recently, the Philadelphia resident said, she found herself thinking that she should celebrate classical tunesmiths from the country of her birth. Globe-trotting singer Dom La Nena will touch down at Artisphere 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The Prague Spring lineup includes a trio of classical opera performances as well. In Transit Blog: This Prague Spring Features Music 2012-05-12T00:00:48Z

The London-based multi-instrumentalist’s latest album, “More Arriving,” is a vibrant cacophony of Indian classical music, jazz and hip-hop that takes aim at cultural stereotypes and negative attitudes to immigration. Beyond the Stereotypes, a New View of Indian Music 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Bolcom's noirish Black Max was spot on, his performance larger than life but only just, his voice neither too classical nor too Broadway. William Lyne birthday gala – review 2012-11-30T17:56:42Z

The absence of Barenboim, a towering figure in classical music for decades, has brought into focus his singular stature and power. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

The music could be ferociously violent or deeply sensitive, expanding the vocabulary of the rock quartet to include Eastern, European, classical and experimental impulses. Lou Reed, legendary rock pioneer, dead at 71 2013-10-27T22:51:00Z

“At one point it was all classical, mostly to prove that I actually have a history with classical music,” he said. The Choreographer Kyle Abraham Mixes Things Up at City Ballet 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

He took classical acting, modern acting, improvisation, technical theater and script analysis. The education of Dave Chappelle: How a D.C. arts school prepared him for stardom 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The trials of the past year have brought forth many of the qualities we already admired about classical music: its resilience, resistance, persistence and endurance. Perspective | I thought classical music could stand up to anything. Now it feels more vulnerable than ever. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Already, schools across the UK are competing to reimagine some of the best-known classical compositions, showing off their creativity and musical acumen, while also studying the classics in the meantime. Elton John, Lorde, Pharrell And More Help Launch BBC Music Initiative With Amazing Beach Boys Cover Video 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

You may even wonder what the goings-on have to do with contemporary classical music, the sphere from which So Percussion emerged. Music Review: ‘Where (we) Live,’ by So Percussion, at BAM 2012-12-20T23:15:46Z

In his “Pictorial Statement” series in 2000, Mr. Utarit superimposed monochromatic paintings of Thai landscape photographs onto exact reproductions of paintings by the Old Masters, establishing a dialogue between the classical masterpieces and photography. Review: Art Shaped by Thailand's Changing Landscape 2010-11-22T12:09:00Z

All of them supplied a revolutionary new-world spirit to classical music, putting expression and passion for progress above blandly comforting old-world beauty. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

We had frank conversations about our experiences as Black people in classical music. He Turned ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Into Protest Music 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

She is the rational actor of classical economics, as imagined for instance by Adam Smith. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

I’ve been pondering this as I approach my departure after 21 years as the chief classical music critic of The New York Times. What Shouldn’t Change About Classical Music 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Few classical recordings have aroused as much fascination as Glenn Gould’s 1981 take on Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Glenn Gould’s Bach Score Surfaces, Scrawls and All 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

A music lover, Ulmer offered no mere facile correlation of classical music and evil but a view of culture at war with itself, of European self-destruction through its own arch-cultural furies. My Favorite Halloween Movie 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

This is because these statues were used at crossroads, Michalis Tiverios, emeritus professor of classical archaeology at Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University, told The Associated Press. Greek police arrest 2 trying to sell rare Roman-era statue 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

With the recent death of Pierre Boulez, Salonen has emerged as perhaps the most potent creative force in contemporary classical music. The New York Philharmonic Picks Jaap van Zweden 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The priorities are a little different in the classical repertoire, and when you get into Justin, there’s no traffic. A Ballet Crowd, Bustin’ Out All Over ‘Carousel’ 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

And he did so because he believed that our people deserve to be recorded and documented in a classical way. LaTanya Richardson Jackson on Directing ‘The Piano Lesson’ (and Her Husband) 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Unlike some rockers who turn to classical, Dessner earned a master’s degree at the Yale School of Music and played flute and classical guitar before forming The National in 1999. Classical CD review: ‘Music for Wood and Strings’ by Bryce Dessner 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

There’s a classical vibe to some of his trove, like the French copy of a Roman bust of Marcus Aurelius and the framed grouping of plaster imprints of ancient Roman seals. The Private Art of the Public Space Architect of Hudson Yards 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Carl majored in classical guitar in college, so he put some guitar on it, and some saxophone, and Bo played keyboards. Jim James of My Morning Jacket on Lifting a ‘Wet Blanket’ Off a 2003 Album 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

She started holding recitals for friends across the city, began a classical music newsletter and then a glossy classical music monthly magazine. A Classical Music Lover Changes Kenyan Children’s Lives 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

It is so important to classical vocalists to know the true natures of their voices. Ren?e Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album. 2010-05-31T21:58:00Z

A week later, one of the students, Our Lady J, a classical pianist, singer-songwriter and cabaret performer, received a phone call from Ms. Soloway offering her a spot on the “Transparent” writing staff. In ‘Transparent,’ a Heroine Evolves Further Still 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Thompson, who also teaches in Howard County, Maryland, said classical music “gets a bad rap for being stuffy and boring. But there’s so much going on . . . all the different sounds and different instruments and energy.” Happy 250th birthday to Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

She sings in a limpid, serene voice with Indian classical inflections. Playlist: The Grammy Awards Before the Grammys 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

Packaged content — Saturday matinees from the Metropolitan Opera, American Public Media’s “Performance Today,” various symphonic series from international orchestras and more — accounts for some 80 hours of classical programming every week. Gene Schiller, Music Director for Hawaii Public Radio 2012-06-24T01:23:03Z

Providing an aural backdrop to the zaniness is traditional liturgical and religious-themed classical music, with the stage manager frantically fiddling with cassette tapes to match music to mood. ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

In April, she performed in “Raymonda” 11 times, and was rehearsing contemporary works far from her classical background, about to take part in a tour of the junior company. These Dancers Escaped the War. Their Journeys Are Just Beginning. 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

“If one made a classical reference, it would be to the sounds in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s ‘Vocalise’ — also a wordless vocal,” he added. Kay Davis, 91 Dies; Ellington Used Her Voice as Instrument 2012-02-23T09:25:22Z

In 1914, classical music held an exalted position in American life, appealing not only to élite audiences but also to a broad public. The “Star-Spangled Banner” Controversy That Altered the Course of American Music 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

When asked what he's doing in Florida — an unlikely base for a top-tier classical musician — he jokes, "Escaping the Canadian winters." James Ehnes, happy at helm of Seattle Chamber Music Society, preserves his 17-year summer tradition 2012-06-27T22:18:03Z

There was dancing, of course: six short modern and classical ballets that showcased the company’s performers, then a DJ and dance floor for the less lithe in the audience. The Washington Ballet bounces back with the capital’s first post-pandemic gala 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

The claps and arm-twirling flourishes of a magician give the classical steps an aura of court magic, and people keep appearing and disappearing, thanks to a black curtain at the rear of the stage. Dance Review: Works by Peter Quanz and Jodie Gates at Gotham Dance Festival 2012-06-04T21:19:43Z

This fall’s classical music calendar features more than 100 events. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

He passionately defended classical music from the stigma of elitism. Review: Bruckner, Then a Cultural Call to Arms, at Carnegie Hall 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Things were a little easier back in the days when sonata form, rondo and other such genres were common, though in reality those classical forms provided little more than general layouts. Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z

The tenor and baritone Plácido Domingo is the best-known example of a classical vocalist who conducts regularly, though typically in the opera pit, where he is not singing at the same time. Barbara Hannigan Sings and Conducts at the Lucerne Festival 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Queen's 1975 song, Bohemian Rhapsody, which was written by Mercury, introduced beautiful melodies, operatic elements, and classical storylines into the rock song. Freddie Mercury 30 years on – remembering the theatrical, eccentric genius 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

I didn't invent these things, I read about them in so-called classical literature. Irving explores bisexuality in latest best seller 2012-06-28T18:18:42Z

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, a versatile choreographer whose work includes flamenco, hip-hop, classical ballet and contemporary dance pieces, is the recipient of the 2019 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, the organization announced on Wednesday. Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Wins Jacob Pillow Dance Award 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

At this moment the global classical music star is simply a smitten innocent, let loose in a theme park. Piano virtuoso Yuja Wang could have gone anywhere for this interview. She chose ... Universal Studios? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

As brought to life by Mr. Beale, one of the finest classical actors alive, Henry is radiant with astonishment, trepidation and a sense of infinite possibilities. Review: A Magnificent Road to Ruin in ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

At university in France, taking classical voice lessons while studying political science and law, Salvant felt herself being pushed toward jazz — partly because of others’ expectations, she said, but also by her own curiosity. Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Album Tackles a Newer Archive: Her Own 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The “ballet” in the troupe’s name sometimes threw people who expected classical ballet. Tina Ramirez, Founder of a Leading Hispanic Dance Troupe, Dies at 92 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Marie-Aude Rose, the chef, applies classical precision to eggs, salads, bouillon, boeuf bourguignon and other French cafe standards, which is more than you can say for some cafes in France. New York’s Top 10 New Restaurants of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

The divide between classical music and "the people" is a false one, but it exists. Us and them is the cultural problem, not Pomp and Circumstance 2010-08-27T06:00:00Z

Elsewhere, students in a classroom with portraits of the two late leaders above the blackboard sat hunched over scores, tapping fingers and pencils as they practiced singing classical European songs. A look at NKorea accordionists behind A-ha moment 2012-03-22T05:51:08Z

“To write a song or a piece of classical music, you have to understand structure, you have to understand tension and release. Good musical lines ask a question and give an answer,” he said. The Many Sides to Dan Brown 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

The chief classical music critic Anthony Tommasini described a fantasy festival of overlooked works by a group of composers who sought to change the way the world saw American composers. Readers Comment on the Imagine This Series 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

KPF’s buildings soon became ornate, rich compositions of stone and glass, often with abstracted and simplified classical detailing. Eugene Kohn, Architect of Skyscraping Ambitions, Dies at 92 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

Orchestra, made up of young black and minority ethnic classical musicians from the U.K. and Europe. A 35-year-old composer and 25-year-old conductor make their Seattle Symphony debuts 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

With a background in classical music and jazz, Pearson had a long career that spanned light music and easy listening. Johnny Pearson obituary 2011-04-06T17:52:35Z

“And we’re, of course, hoping that this audience is a younger and broader demographic than that of our regular classical concerts.” Ben Folds, unlikely poster boy for orchestras, brings millennials to late-night series 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

This new Washington was to be a figure of classical restraint and nobility, rather than youthful revolutionary vigor. A George Washington Monument, Rediscovered in Fragile Plaster 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

A fan of much music beyond the classical concert hall, he also took up jazz and rock, and was comfortable at the seat of a drum kit. A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

But, of course, classical music at the Super Bowl is not business as usual. Gustavo Dudamel and Youth Orchestra L.A.'s Super Bowl halftime show will be a win for the arts 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

This was a time when all-female ensembles — especially young women with a fashion sense — were as much of a novelty as a Khan bass line was in classical music. Catching up with Michael Torke and the Eroica Trio in Pasadena 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

As a small child, I was obsessed with classical music. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

In short, they’re in classic Edo style, a style that the Feinbergs were astute and adventurous enough to recognize as some kind of classical more than 40 years ago. Art Review: A Cascade of Petals From the Met’s Japanese Collection 2014-01-30T23:17:46Z

Costanzo, used to the rigor and precision of classical music, grew comfortable with a looser style. A Singer Brings His Authentic Self to the Philharmonic 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Matthew Smucker's sets and the costumes by Melanie Burgess are based on classical Indian designs, with the actors garbed in dhotis, saris and vivid masks. ACT gambles big on 'The Ramayana, a Hindu epic cherished by millions 2012-10-10T22:44:05Z

As a classical composer, he didn’t silo off that part of his life. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Spain has never been known for its classical dance troupes, nor did Mr. Corella have major benefactors or initial state support. The Week Ahead: April 15 ? 21 2012-04-13T20:56:22Z

That’s why at great moments like weddings and funerals and festive social occasions, people turn to classical music. Q&A: Can’t stop, won’t stop: Famous conductor’s show goes on 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

The 5 Browns rose to national prominence in 2002, and their three albums topped Billboard's classical chart. Musicians' dad gets 10 years to life for sex abuse 2011-03-31T22:59:10Z

If the number set to Queen’s “Bicycle Race” were set to classical music — say, to Shostakovich — instead, it might be easier to recognize as an exemplary construction of contemporary ballet. Trey McIntyre Puts His Company to Rest at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

“Hearts and Arrows,” in which the dancers wear heeled boots instead of ballet slippers and perform to music by Philip Glass, epitomizes that mix of athleticism and classical form, Peck says. Perspective | Justin Peck, Misty Copeland curate ‘Ballet Across America’ series 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The show brings together 44 of Piero’s works and takes an unprecedented look at his sacred and secular output, including his wonderfully singular takes on classical mythology and religious themes. The National Gallery unveils an exhibition of works by Old Master Piero di Cosimo 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Her mother, Alberta G. Lee, was a classical pianist and teacher. 2010-01-12T06:44:00Z

He left his home in Italian-speaking Switzerland in 1922, and in Paris the 20-year-old Giacometti found himself more inspired by Brancusi and Picasso than by his classical instructors at art school. Giacometti: Beguiled by Thin Men and Women 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Classical crossover projects, you see, lack the high seriousness and the artistic standing of sanctified classical music tradition. Perspective | How a classical musician turned 400-year-old French songs into a modern hit 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Swayze—who played football as a teenager but also studied classical ballet, bedfellows that aren’t really strange at all—is all muscle and heart. 30 Years Later Patrick Swayze Still Stuns in 'Dirty Dancing' 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

One factor was the falling away of audiences for contemporary “classical” music. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Perez’s analysis of the films is largely focussed not on classical tropes of rhetoric featured in Ford’s directorial method but on the deployment of rhetorical figures, within the context of the film, by Ford’s characters. A Tribute to My Teacher Gilberto Perez and His Eloquent Philosophy of Cinema 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Brooklyn's Brittelle, a multi- instrumentalist who bridges pop and classical music, wrote "Obituary Birthday" for full orchestra plus two drum kits. Seattle Symphony embraces rock, jazz giants 2011-10-13T20:14:09Z

The artistic director at Christian Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, opened her couture show with a simple white dress resembling the peplos of classical Greece: a rectangle of cloth draped to make a flowing column. The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

It is a brick structure, with two symmetrical wings, and a simple classical portico with white columns. Review | America picked artist Martin Puryear’s work for the Venice Biennale — and he’s everything America is not 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

With his few phrases of song, Mr. Obama joins the list of presidents who have gone public as musicians, from Harry S. Truman’s love of classical piano through Bill Clinton’s tenor saxophone. Critic?s Notebook: Presidents Sometimes Take the Role of First Musician 2012-02-22T23:25:19Z

More than 5,000 people, including dancers from the Staatsballett, signed a petition to protest the appointment of a modern dance practitioner to lead a classical ballet company. Sasha Waltz’s ‘In C’ Marries Choreography and Improvisation 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

His appointment comes amid a broader reckoning in classical music over severe gender and racial disparities. Baltimore Symphony’s New Conductor Breaks a Racial Barrier 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

“I believe in my heart and soul that classical music heals, and that opera is for everyone,” Michelle says. That sound you’re hearing is classical music’s long overdue reckoning with racism 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

The resulting tensions may be too complex for the term Expressionist; the work has classical underpinnings and a harsh yet elegant decorative sense. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

"Critical Memory" examines the role played in the Japanese psyche by classical art, including the traditional painting forms of and . Bye Bye Kitty: The Dark Side of Art in Japan 2011-05-05T04:00:00Z

Thanks to a clever advertising campaign for the classical radio station WQXR-FM, Beethoven is everywhere, rendered in the style of the street artist Shepard Fairey and adorned with a quirky logo: “OBEY THOVEN.” Music Review: Orchestre R?volutionnaire et Romantique at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-17T23:16:29Z

It consists of four scrolls — painted with black figures that recall classical Chinese ink painting at its loosest — hanging alongside suspended 3-D fabric elements. Review | In the galleries: Juried competition puts regional artists at center stage 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

The director also makes distinctive use of music, filling the soundtrack with classical pieces—orchestrations of compositions by Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms. My Favorite Halloween Movie 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

There were ear-piercing whistles and screams for Culbreath's virtuosity and jazzy flair with tricky rhythms from the kind of enthusiastic young people classical ensembles are eager to court. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

But at the same time they were all also envisioning a future for music where boundaries didn’t exist, where you could have a cross-fertilization between the avant-garde, classical music and pop. A ?60s Mash-Up That Didn?t Happen 2011-03-06T01:44:59Z

The same fate has befallen classical music, absent any explicit rejection of bourgeois democracy, though other face-saving excuses have been invented. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

I wanted to achieve the right proportion of classical and contemporary, and I believe that Nacho will be able to achieve that good proportion.” Nacho Duato and Mikhailovsky Ballet 2010-08-20T14:35:00Z

Andrés Segovia, the great classical guitarist, used to argue that the electric guitar was a monstrosity. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z

In Learning to Drive, there is “no romance in a classical way”, Coixet said, and the lead character is a fiftysomething woman “because the world is full of them”. Ben Kingsley: why I now know that women make the best directors of men 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Red blends are popular right now, and I’m not speaking of classical blends like Bordeaux, Châteauneuf-du-Pape or Chianti. Your Next Lesson: White Wine Blends 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Each year, Al Bustan brings an impressive array of highbrow classical music to a hotel here on the outskirts of Beirut. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Increasingly, classical artists are realizing that audiences appreciate hearing performers speak about a piece they are about to play. Review: At Mostly Mozart, Joshua Bell Plays a Rejiggered Bach Novelty 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Until the Lions An excerpt from the ancient Sanskrit epic “The Mahabharata” is retold through Indian classical dance and contemporary dance in this U.S. premiere from choreographer Akram Khan and company. The week ahead in L.A. dance, Oct. 15-22: Akram Khan Company, Invertigo Dance Theatre and more 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

His forays into classical music sidetracked him from pursuing the pop megastardom he once envisioned. Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

The clean Berlin streets and dustily lighted apartments; the classical framing and detailed costuming; the German-accented English — there’s nothing here to ruffle or rouse. Review: An Act of Rebellion, Blandly Told in ‘Alone in Berlin’ 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

As yMusic wrote in program notes for the concert, original group composition is expected in pop but unusual in classical music. Review: Carnegie Hall Makes an Intimate Space More Intimate 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

Phil, Swed found some rough edges in the blending of Iceland’s popular rock band and classical music, including audience members who treated a chamber choir as a warm-up act. Essential Arts & Culture: 'The Encounter's' circular time, L.A. Phil's Icelandic time, Center Theater Group's anniversary time 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

But maybe this is a time when classical musicians need to speak directly about what they are playing, and why. Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Not that Mr. Nederlander was averse to classical or original theater. James Nederlander, Theater Owner Known as Broadway’s Last Patriarch, Dies at 94 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Giraudo is an Argentine bassist and composer who reinforces his love for tango with a mastery of Western classical and jazz vocabulary. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The charges against classical music competitions are familiar: art is not a sport; the need for jury consensus rewards conformism; fear of losing stifles innovation; actual losing can cripple morale and, potentially, a career. Music: Orpheus, Hilary Hahn and David Lang Start Competitions 2012-02-12T15:24:35Z

His improvisational and compositional style was harmonically adventurous but still classical. McNeil Robinson II, 72, Organist and Composer, Is Dead 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

I knew that chess, like classical music, was shorthand in movies for genius – often of the evil variety. The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

The Philadelphia Orchestra ended a brief strike on Sunday, two days after its musicians sent a shock wave through the classical music world by walking off the job just before a season-opening gala. Philadelphia Orchestra Ends Its Brief Strike 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

It is this – the combination of the classical theatre training and the military experience – that gives Driver an unusual ruggedness. Adam Driver: ‘Compared with the military, acting isn't that difficult’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

Yet for all his loyalty to classical forms and tonal harmonies, the same prickliness injects a certain asperity into even his most lyrical moments. Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z

It’s set in the world of classical music and tries to combine the dark backstage comedy of “Slings and Arrows” with the gilded New York debauchery of “Sex and the City.” ArtsBeat: On Amazon, Pilots — and Potential — on View 2014-02-07T19:17:07Z

The whole field of classical music has to think long and hard about this smaller-is-better business. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

With its unstuffy, contemporary vibe and serious focus on quality live music, SubCulture in the East Village is a welcome recent addition to the classical scene. Reviews: Chelsea Music Festival, Gregg Kallor and St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Prince and Madonna wisely dropped all but their first names, an idea taken up in the classical music world by the violinist Midori. Classical Groups Get Creative With Names 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z

She graduated from Princeton and received a doctoral degree in classical archaeology from Oxford University in England. Cynthia Drakeman, Richard Wanerman 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

It offers the very best of the market, from classical to contemporary: antiquities, old masters, Impressionist paintings, flatware, couture jewelry, photography. Q&A: Navigating Art Fairs in Miami and Beyond 2013-11-30T21:29:22Z

The Carnegie lineup is full of superb voices, violinists, pianists — the meat and potatoes of classical music. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: Here’s What We Want to Hear 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Yet over the past 200 years, classical ballet has become synonymous with a fairy-tale ideal of femininity. A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

The two, best known as touring members of Arcade Fire, offered back-to-back instrumental sets that fused jazz, contemporary classical and avant rock into an unclassifiable evening. Essential tracks: Sarah Neufeld-Colin Stetson: mysterious, moody collaboration 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

And it's true for any kind of music being made nowadays, whether it's an acoustic record or a metal record or a classical record or a hip-hop record or whatever. The secret to Jim James’ solo album “Uniform Distortion”: “Turn off your phone and open y... 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Far from sounding as if it belongs to the classical tradition, however, Prokofiev's Concerto is firmly rooted in the urban sounds of hip-hop, albeit with live orchestra and classical references to composers such as Stravinsky. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z

Ms. Falcone, one of the classical music industry’s main P.R. agents, said the parting — which becomes official at the end of the year — was entirely amicable. ArtsBeat: Ren?e Fleming Dropping Publicist 2010-10-21T21:17:00Z

It's a movie whose characters talk of books, classical music and life in smart, snappy dialogue that'll occasionally break your heart, and when it's over you'll wish the characters were still around. May 22 at SIFF: 'The Do-Deca-Pentathlon,' 'Liberal Arts' 2012-05-21T19:06:03Z

Combining Black vernacular dance with classical ballet, as Garland does here, has long been his signature. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem’s Soulful Ballet to Stevie Wonder 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

As his cinematic version of Coriolanus premiered at the , regarded as one of Britain's finest classical and stage actors, finally joined the ranks of film directors, along with his sisters Martha and Sophie. Ralph Fiennes makes debut as film director with Coriolanus 2011-02-14T16:38:27Z

It plans to offer pop music and classical music and theater and visual arts, all mingling on an equal footing, with free and low-priced tickets interleaved among the $150 ones. Perspective | Along New York’s High Line, a $500 million effort to bring the arts to everyone 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

Listening to classical music does not, in fact, make you smarter. In search of the Mozart effect 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

This was the area where classical Western influences filtered into India, though its easy to imagine influences going the other way too. For Asia Week, Gods, Saints and Flying Heroes 2010-03-18T20:58:00Z

But in a real surprise Trinity managed to put another musical face on its remembrance, that of Maurice Duruflé: by comparison, a much more modest figure in the classical music world. Critic?s Notebook: Bach at Trinity Church to Commemorate 9/11 2011-09-11T22:07:04Z

Dubinets says: “We want to position classical music as a dynamic art form relevant to the current conditions of our ever-connected world.” At Seattle Symphony’s new Octave 9, a 24-hour music marathon promises Cloud 9 for new music lovers 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

The concert was divided evenly between strict, almost classical lessons in bebop, and all the approaches that lie beyond it — ways of adding one’s original voice and even one’s limitations into jazz’s 100-year continuity. N.E.A. Jazz Masters Hail From Inside and Outside the Club 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

A classical prodigy who turned to jazz, he was playing with Donald Byrd and Miles Davis when barely out of his teens. Herbie Hancock stretches out and enjoys the jams at Kennedy Center 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

And I believe that classical architecture, by its very nature, is green.” 2009-11-01T04:00:00Z

Next August's plan to stage the "Oresteia" trilogy, written by Aeschylus, to a non-paying audience many of whom will probably know little about classical Greek drama, could be the most ambitious project yet. Free drama of popular protest rocks London stage 2011-08-31T12:37:39Z

In the school, they just teach classical music. Improvisation is a passion for Cuba's Alfredo Rodriguez 2010-08-27T21:12:00Z

Using elegant and sophisticated strategies from the traditions of classical music, Strauss draws each listener into music’s capacity to inspire a personal recognition of the bittersweet transition from desire to fulfillment, and ultimately to loss. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Often times modern themes and ideas are merely a confusing set dressing on a classical play, but not in this case. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

To succeed, the traditional audience base has to be willing to travel a little and newcomers to classical music have to give the art form a chance. In Paris, a New Music Hub Hums 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

The opera, which opens on Aug. 1 and stars Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard and Jay Hunter Morris, will be recorded live for a release by Pentatone, a Dutch classical music label. Santa Fe Opera Adds Performance of 'Cold Mountain' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Jessica Howard, the group sales manager in charge of WolfGang, and young herself, described WolfGang as a way of breaking down "barriers and preconceptions" about classical music, "adapting so that it remains relevant," she said. Young Seattle Symphony fans gather in WolfGang 2010-04-14T21:15:00Z

As she developed her choreographic ideas she collaborated, mainly virtually, with a composer, Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy, and a dramaturge, Poorna Swami, both of whom have pursued interests beyond the world of classical Indian music and dance. An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths in ‘the Land of Discovery’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Ricks traces the intellectual journeys of our first four presidents to show the profound impact the classical world had on their thinking. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Ronald Broun, who wrote hundreds of classical music reviews for The Washington Post while working as a litigator for the National Labor Relations Board, died Oct. Ronald Broun, lawyer and Washington Post classical music critic, dies at 75 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

But the popular image of classical music is still so hung up on anachronistic appearances – tenors in white tie and tails, concerts being introduced by ladies in long frocks. Oliver Knussen: 'It never occurred to me that not everybody thought music was the most important thing in life' 2012-06-06T16:50:00Z

“Since we know that classical music is timeless and everlasting, it is precisely the eternal verities inherent in classical music that remain a spiritual beacon for people all over the world,” Cliburn once said. Van Cliburn, American Classical Pianist, Dies 2013-02-27T20:06:33Z

Tumbleweeds have been drifting in the classical music section of The New York Times newsroom, as our critics have spread far and wide to bring you reports from the broad world beyond the city. Classical Music This Week: The Festival Circuit, Blackness at the Met and Reynaldo Hahn 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

A national debate about architecture, gothic versus classical, erupted in the press as the possibilities for a replacement building were considered before Barry did eventually get the job. The Day Parliament Burned Down by Caroline Shenton – review 2012-10-05T21:55:06Z

Only a small fraction of classical literature is regularly played. Review | Lost heroes return in two local concerts 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Incidental intelligence: This recital was Washington Performing Arts’ first classical concert at the University of the District of Columbia this season while the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater is closed for renovation. Alisa Weilerstein woos in romantic reading of Bach Cello Suites 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Sometimes I do more classical stuff, sometimes a more organic, theatrical piece. ArtsBeat: Roots in New York, but Stretching to Europe: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at Joyce Theater 2012-05-15T17:47:12Z

Such raw and immediate social relevance is uncommon and important in classical music today, and it made even a Mahler symphony — something raw and searing in its own right — seem almost peripheral, a rare feat. A Mahler Mini-Festival in New York 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

We asked Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic of The Times, who interviewed Ms. Rice about her chamber music experience in a profile in 2005, to identify the pieces. ArtsBeat: What Was Condoleezza Rice Playing on '30 Rock'? 2011-04-29T19:51:50Z

No, he says, but he remembers discovering classical music and how important that was to him. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z

To his surprise, it spurred a more serious discussion about the future of the Emerson Quartet, one of the most celebrated ensembles in classical music for almost half a century. After 47 Years, the Emerson Quartet Has One More Weekend 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

They tend to smother attempts to make classical music more popular – from taking it into places it's not usually performed, to using amplification at the earliest stages. Andreas Scholl, countertenor – portrait of the artist 2013-03-19T19:30:00Z

Mao Zedong, in his “Four Olds” campaign, tore classical landscapes to shreds. We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

And in classical Hollywood there was no technology more sensitive to those properties than three-strip Technicolor, an expensive and cumbersome process that resembled stone lithography more than the dot-matrix pointillism of today’s digital processes. DVD: ?Meet Me in St. Louis,? on Blu-Ray 2011-12-09T21:48:05Z

He became captain of the school, and won a classical scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford. Christopher Pemberton obituary 2011-02-06T18:21:37Z

Washington’s classical calendar is full of events that relate in one way or another to the main themes of this blockbuster musical. Perspective | Summer is rich with historic American music 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

When I was growing up, if you were studying music you were studying classical or jazz — great art forms, but not reflecting on a career in contemporary music. ArtsBeat: At 78, Clive Davis Still Commands the Stage 2011-02-11T18:20:18Z

I don't relate to classical ballet, though I do to modern ballet. Stephen Sondheim, composer – portrait of the artist 2012-11-27T19:30:01Z

The players believe that management wants to replace the traditional classical orchestra and replace it with a second-rank version. Top players fall silent as Detroit Symphony Orchestra fights for survival 2010-11-19T18:12:00Z

Both a composer and singer, al-Sahir is one of the few performers in the Arab world's pop music scene who sing in classical Arabic. Famous Iraqi singer returns in UNICEF role 2011-05-09T18:28:08Z

An original score by the electronic artist Blanck Mass, anachronistically interwoven with classical numbers by Vivaldi, certainly helps, creating a mood of grandiose delirium. ‘Ted K’ Review: An Eerie Descent 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

She taught the classical and romantic repertoire with the same ardour as she did the music by modern composers, in particular the wonderful works written for her by her husband. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

He is also a classical composer specializing in choral music. Rex Isenberg, Matthew Cohen 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

Front and center was Avi Avital, who is trying to punch the diminutive mandolin into the front ranks of classical solo instruments. How much difference can one mandolin make? Bowl audience hears a fresh spin on 'Four Seasons' 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

We’d like to suggest a simple solution, with its roots in classical art: Perhaps a gigantic fig leaf covering the obelisk? Perspective | Hey, Picasso, we have some suggestions for your masterpiece 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Not the Trump/Pence kind, the Louis Vuitton-by-Nicolas-Ghesquière kind, dressed up in little silk dresses with maxi shoulder impact, printed with splotches of robots and classical statuary like rips in the space-time continuum. Louis Vuitton’s Future Shock 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

This program of classical Indian dancing offers two separate programs on back-to-back evenings. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

That first harvest of classical art would be largely pillaged by Napoleonic armies, but as Rome regenerated more of its past has resurfaced in fields turned back into suburbs. ‘Rome: A History in Seven Sackings’ Review: The City That Survived 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Unusually, for a ballad, it begins with the classical gesture of evoking the Muse, in this case, of course, the Virgin Mary herself. Poem of the week: A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham 2011-02-23T10:44:17Z

Underpinning this analysis is the classical conservative view that postwar state welfare systems created dependency on central government, weakening traditional systems of mutual assistance and depleting stores of self-reliance. Back from the Brink by Peter Snowdon; Red Tory by Phillip Blond 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

Prutsman, in contrast, is a proficient jazzman, but went all the way as a classical performer, concertizing extensively and winning an Avery Fisher Career Grant in the process—and, in his Barber recording, it shows. CD Notes: Keith Jarrett’s “Barber/Bartók” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

No longer did one require “formal and classical education, or the resources of a vast library” to be a reader. When reading a book was a group activity 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Women figure prominently in classical mythology, but neither Helen nor Penelope occupies the central hero role of Odysseus or Achilles. Two New Books Look at Mythology With Fresh Eyes 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

But some pianists were more than worth the price of admission though, drawing on the audience's wide knowledge of classical and popular music to improvise a score on the fly. Pianists play it again at the silent movies 2011-04-12T14:25:01Z

Along the way Will teaches Louisa to appreciate classical music and to be less satisfied with her hometown and her boyfriend. ‘Me Before You,’ by Jojo Moyes, and More 2012-12-26T20:50:12Z

The Globe’s classical music critic, Jeremy Eichler, later called the decision a “significant missed opportunity” and a “curious and potentially embarrassing call.” Conservatory Is to Cut Ties to Children?s Music Project 2011-01-22T00:26:35Z

The idea is to explore the religious and the folk/secular origins of classical music. The Swedish Clarinetist Martin Frost Wants to Move Beyond Traditional Concert Formats 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

In classical antiquity, cypress was a symbol of mourning. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

First, it should be noted, it’s only natural that Namdar, as a Hebrew speaker and teacher of classical Jewish literature, should perceive strange crossings of the ancient and the modern that English-speaking Americans would miss. An Unusual Jewish Novel, Full of Blood and Incense 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

“Maybe my time is better organized than many other people’s. But compared to classical composers like Bach, Frescobaldi, Palestrina or Mozart, I would define myself as unemployed.” Ennio Morricone, Oscar-Winning Composer of Film Scores, Dies at 91 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

She added, “The modern Greek nation state was fashioned according to classical ideas, so this consciousness is part of our identity.” Building a Hub for New Art ‘Under the Shadow of the Acropolis’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

From Seething to Earnest, a Work Raises Passions Handel’s “Messiah” may be the only sure thing in classical music. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z

Copland served as a preface to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, with which Dudamel had made classical music and L.A. history at the Hollywood Bowl eight years ago. Dudamel and Beethoven — and Vin Scully — for the common man 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

He is known as an uncompromising classical musician but has also earned a reputation as a punk, a goth and an anarchist. A Maestro and His Musicians Face Scrutiny Over Ties to Russia 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

He’s all about breaking down the lines of hierarchy and pretension in his classical music world. Bradley Whitford Finds Inspiration in the Theater (and Dog Park) 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Today, prominent thinkers such as Steven Pinker, Paul Ekman and the Dalai Lama also offer up descriptions of emotions rooted in the classical view. Omotions are cultural – not built in at birth | Lisa Feldman Barrett 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

By the time you get to the masque near the end, featuring impenetrable spoofs of the nine classical “worthies,” you may doubt young Shakespeare’s judgment of worthiness. Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

In 2019, classical music wrestled with topical issues and economic concerns that were reflected in some of the year’s most significant triumphs. Perspective | In classical music it was a year of building, deconstructing and, occasionally, rescuing 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Which is why the connections she made between so-called jazz and contemporary classical, beats and electronic music, rappers and dancers, standards and the hard-core songbook, were completely organic, and always fascinating.” Jaimie Branch, Trumpeter Who Crossed Genre Lines, Dies at 39 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wright, 57, who begins his new job in September, comes to it with experience in several corners of the classical music world. ArtsBeat: BBC Classical Music Chief Is Leaving the Studio 2014-03-24T21:52:58Z

In them, he writes toward a range of influences — modern classical, Scandinavian pop and electronic music, 1960s free jazz, ’80s hip-hop — without ever settling into a single direction. Music From a Distance? Eivind Opsvik Has Been Making It for Years 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

In recent years, increasing attention has been paid, particularly in Britain, to making classical music more accessible. When Technology Makes Music More Accessible 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Pedestrian movement has a place in the design of classical ballet. Dance Review: Ratmansky?s ?Russian Seasons? From New York City Ballet 2012-02-05T22:36:15Z

Where Morandi’s small canvases featured vases that suggested the heft of classical Greco-Roman sculpture, Ms. Barth’s photographs of glassware vessels show off the camera’s spectral effects. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

And here are the recordings of Javanese and Balinese gamelan; Noh, Kabuki, and Gagaku; Indian classical music; African drumming; and xylophones, which opened up for me the whole world of music beyond Western culture. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Eighteenth- and 19th-century repertoire, the gravitational well of the classical industry, was almost entirely bypassed. Review | Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, cellist Jay Campbell subvert classical conventions 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Still, contrary to Nixey, there was not utter but rather partial destruction of the classical world. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

He started playing with more accomplished ensembles and relished the flexibility of mariachi to absorb a range of musical expressions, from boleros, cumbias, rancheras and sones to pop ballads and classical passages. Why mariachi music matters in the age of Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

And for most of the 250 or so in the audience, it was their first exposure to classical music. A Classical Music Lover Changes Kenyan Children’s Lives 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

The Polar Music Prize is the so-called “Nobel of the music world,” awarded annually to one recipient each from the fields of modern and classical music. Chuck Berry Honored With 'Music's Nobel Prize' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Woven together, the classical dance and folk motifs — circles, flexed heels, quick runs backward and forward — knit patterns onto the stage, almost transforming its surface into a sky of gliding birds. Review: Jerome Robbins Delivers the Hit of City Ballet’s Season 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

I joined the band that day and it was an absolutely incredible time for me – it felt like a return to my classical roots but without the stuffiness of that world. Meltdown 2012 – Joan as Police Woman: 'I've watched Antony Hegarty grow into a political force' 2012-07-29T23:05:05Z

I'm old- i can remember when the Grammy awards used o show all of the types of music up for awards: jazz,classical ,folk,blues,country, and so on. Grammy Nominations 2018: Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar Lead the Way 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

I started teaching the seminar after I noticed some of the classical layers, particularly since 2001, in songs like “Lonesome Day Blues.” Bob Dylan 101: A Harvard Professor Has the Coolest Class on Campus 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

He owns no cellphone, has never been on a computer, and listens only to classical music. James Ellroy talks up his new L.A. Quartet 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

In my recitals and full shows, I am breaking down the barriers between what is classical and what is pop, what is instrumental and what is vocal. Violinist Hahn-Bin at home with Bowie, Tchaikovsky 2012-02-23T22:13:23Z

He adheres, arguably too much, to the classical idea that architecture is about naked materials and structure seen in daylight. David Chipperfield: master of permanence 2011-02-06T00:06:23Z

All of Java’s courtly arts, including shadow puppetry and classical dance, first flourished here. On Java, a Creative Explosion in an Ancient City 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Only relatively recently have classical music ensembles started to regard their names as opportunities for creativity. Classical Groups Get Creative With Names 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z

The multitalented Jon Batiste is the leading nominee for this year’s honors, grabbing 11 nods in a variety of genres including R&B, jazz, American roots music, classical and music video. Grammys postpone ceremony, citing omicron variant risks 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

His style is a hybrid of Indian classical, traditional Indian kathak and contemporary dance. Dance star Akram Khan prepares for swansong tour 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Puccini and Verdi meet lasers and fireworks in this special FX-ladened classical, er, spectacular. This week's new events 2013-03-15T17:27:46Z

“Now, more than, ever, a dialogue is so important. We have seen that classical music is a universal language,” he added. An Orchestra Brings Harmony to a Region of Discord 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

In her voice lessons Ms. Foster is often given classical repertory, a “great supplement to what I’m doing at night,” she said, adding, almost with surprise, “It works a completely different vocal muscle!” A Big Belter Who Found a True Voice 2011-05-13T23:00:44Z

In addition to its clear debts to the Russian classical tradition, the one-movement work features passages with rock momentum, and others with the grooving energy of 20th-century pianists like Oscar Peterson. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

He also helped modernize the art form by using scripts written in colloquial instead of classical Chinese. World's oldest opera singer dies at age 98 2010-07-17T09:31:00Z

“Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.” Debating the Seattle Orchestra’s Foray With Sir Mix-A-Lot 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

It is not unheard of for composers to turn up at concerts of their music, at least in the classical music world. ArtsBeat: Elementary School Concert Draws Billy Joel 2014-04-11T14:57:22Z

Long-playing records were seen from the beginning as well-suited to longer, classical works. An Opera Lover Tests Streaming Services 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

He nonetheless came to see the value of classical training; he later returned to the classics and eventually performed Bach and Mozart on several occasions with symphony orchestras. George Shearing, ?Lullaby of Birdland? Jazz Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2011-02-14T18:49:32Z

Closer to a classical sense of phonetic beauty, it's as smooth and chubby as a cherub. What's the loveliest word in the English language? 2012-05-25T11:30:01Z

It's an art form that defies easy description: a fusion of dance, music, poetry, classical dressage and shamanistic magic. Bartabas: dances with horses 2011-02-21T21:31:00Z

An ensemble of five musicians will appear onstage with the dancer-choreographer, whose work draws on contemporary dance styles as well as kathak, the Indian classical dance form. Perspective | In theaters or at home, dance is here to move you 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

All five were baffled by the omission of classical ballet and tap from the routines, while the jive and international rumba are included. So You Think You Can Judge Dance 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

“At New York City Ballet, I was the classical girl,” she said. Kathryn Morgan Uses Social Media as She Gears for Her Return 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Having played classical instruments for 10 years herself, Percival said she knew how her song was going to sound when performed, so it wasn’t a surprise. What does a mother’s love sound like? Seattle Symphony’s Lullaby Project finds out. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

Potted plants stand in for trees, lawn ornaments for classical statuary. Art Review: Out-Magritting Magritte, or at Least Coming Close 2011-08-11T21:37:51Z

When classical music becomes another character in a movie. Perspective | As a classical music critic, I used to think the ‘Star Wars’ score was beneath me. I was wrong. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Lorin Maazel, the brilliant and mercurial American conductor whose artistic journey went from child prodigy to leader of some of the world’s top classical music institutions, died Sunday morning at his home in Castleton, Va. Lorin Maazel, child prodigy turned brilliant conductor and festival founder: 1930-2014

The music, primarily classical selections performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, is more successful than the voice-over as it supports the images and heightens the tension in the most intimidating scenes. Review: ‘Mountain’ Features Frightening Sights and Breathtaking Images 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

My mother conducted a choir when she was confined to the hospital; my sister immersed herself in violin and teaching; and my father and I immersed ourselves in classical music—listening, performing and teaching. Q+A: Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, Co-Authors of Strings Attached 2013-10-01T16:51:02Z

Although Pollini’s celebrity is well deserved, the conservative world of classical music doesn’t make much room for other artists of similarly vast imagination. The Pianist Maurizio Pollini and the Shock of the Old 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Like them, Copeland is a special magnet for that Holy Grail of any classical art form: young people. Can Misty Copeland be both a celebrity AND a great artist? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Dotting the space are classical torsos, animal figurines and cartoonishly large children’s shoes made of porcelain and stoneware — elements she will later combine in her complex, hybrid pieces. The Artist Testing the Limits of Ceramics 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

After finishing his studies, Currentzis was invited to Novosibirsk, a city in Siberia with a strong classical tradition. Teodor Currentzis Brings His Intense Verdi to New York 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Though older music does slip into the schedule, it’s not often that a young pianist plays a program of classical standards. Music Review: Alice Sara Ott at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-06-07T22:48:13Z

He introduced me to the orchestra as if I were some world-famous classical soloist. Corinne Bailey Rae, Sir Mark Elder and other musicians' greatest on-stage moments 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z

When they sometimes refer to the classical/Renaissance time frame, the tone is pleasantly sardonic. Review: Balanchine and Shakespeare Catch Some Waves in Miami 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

With the encouragement of his father, he recalled that he bought about 1,200 LPs from the library, including classical and jazz albums, which he cataloged in the basement of his childhood home. A Music Historian Takes a Top Job at the New York Public Library 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

It’s an exaggeration of a classical duet, amping up the courtly flourishes. Review: Complexions Returns With New Dances but Not New Moves 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

I spent a few days putting Apple Music Classical to the test, trying out its search, playlists and guides to classical music. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Stony Hill has been making small amounts of cabernet sauvignon since 2009 in a restrained, classical style that I love. A Napa Favorite Goes Back to the Future 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Swan Lake is so popular we forget that its complex musical history tends to leave ballet and classical fans on opposite sides of a divide. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake 2010-04-08T21:50:00Z

But through it all, he remained one of the most revered figures in classical music, celebrated for performances full of warmth and humanity. On the Met's James Levine, and the age-old debate of separating the art from the artist 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Q: Aside from classical music, what do you like to listen to? Royal wedding cello prodigy hopes to inspire classical music’s next generation 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Harold Shaw, an artist manager whose clients included some of the most famous performers in classical music, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. Harold Shaw, Manager of Major Classical Artists, Dies at 90 2014-02-01T02:01:54Z

Now in their 86th season, the Met’s Saturday radio presentations are billed as the “longest-running continuous classical radio series in American broadcast history.” Peter Allen, stalwart host of the Metropolitan Opera’s radio broadcasts, dies at 96 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

I, in the 16 years I lived in England, eventually became a published writer and a concert performer in Indian classical music, while behaving as if western popular music no longer existed. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z

During your break from classical music, you worked a variety of jobs, eventually starting your own security firm. He Quit Singing Because of Body Shaming. Now He’s Making a Comeback. 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

He started classical piano lessons when he was 4, played baritone horn in his high school marching band and also learned trumpet. Leon Russell, Hit Maker and Musicians’ Musician, Dies at 74 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

To be involved is a big deal, giving classical musicians the kind of exposure they only get when they leave their Stradivari instruments on trains. Last Night of the London Proms: A Sonic Potpourri 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

“She doesn’t have consciousness in the classical way, but she is sensitive,” said the Italian artist behind the bot who, seeking to avoid celebrity himself, goes by the name Norma Jeane. ‘Desert X’ Treats Arid Space as a Rich Canvas 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

But today, it's more like a basilica – a cavernous, vaulted space dripping with classical detailing, from its giant arches to its marble panelling to its gilded capitals. Myplace: Putting the youth back in youth centre 2010-04-11T21:05:00Z

Our biggest collaboration yet will see all six of the summer season's operas streamed on our classical music website. Glyndebourne and the Guardian team up for 2013 opera season 2012-10-04T13:04:00Z

Though he spent much of his childhood training in school to be a classical ballet dancer and was well-versed in Nutcrackers and Swan Lakes, Mr. Verdecia’s first dance moves were without toe points. Falling Into Each Other’s Arms, a Step at a Time 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

The 19th century will pose the toughest calls in our whimsical attempt to identify the Top 10 classical composers of all time. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z

But each year, the fine classical performances of the Vienna Philharmonic and State Ballet are overshadowed in the Austrian media by the paid celebrity guests invited by Viennese millionaire mall developer Richard Lugner. Kardashian confronts tradition at elite Vienna ball 2014-02-27T19:34:41Z

A few years ago one of your colleagues was lamenting the lack of classical music at the festival. Summing Up the Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-31T12:30:54Z

After all, Marriotts, student centers and airport lounges are designed to be antitheses of the intimidation often associated with classical music. After Decades, the Philharmonic’s Hall Sounds and Feels More Intimate 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

There are people who prefer only classical music; they don’t like rock music or metal, which is okay. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The classical faces emerging from foliage recall the French painter Watteau, whose misty pastoral scenes are contemporary with Chiswick. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z

The crossbreeding of classical and jazz has a long history, stretching back to the Third Stream movement of the 1960s. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

It's probably a good thing they're joking – but these men are both pushing the envelope of what classical countertenors can do. Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky: pushing the envelope for countertenors 2010-12-06T21:31:00Z

And how scary is it to step into the roles of two of the finest dancers of their generation, classical or otherwise? When Twyla Tharp Made Ballet Modern 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

He triumphantly returned to a New York City ticker tape parade - the first ever for a classical musician - and a Time magazine cover proclaimed him "The Texan Who Conquered Russia." Van Cliburn, American classical pianist, dies 2013-02-27T17:19:28Z

The club even hosted a series showcasing new minimalist composers from the classical world. The Gritty Club at the Heart of ‘This Ain’t No Disco’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Church rose to fame aged 12 as a classical crossover singer, scoring a smash hit with her debut album Voice of an Angel. Church signs deal to fund album 2010-03-10T12:21:00Z

Currently on his mind: his constant struggle with how to learn more about everything that Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic, writes about. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

But as masks requirements loosened and vaccine records stopped doubling as passports, classical music started to look more like its old self, and not for the best. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

The Seattle Symphony's recording of "Become Ocean," conducted by music director Ludovic Morlot, was nominated in the category of contemporary classical composition. Grammys 2015: Classical nominations for 'City Noir,' L.A.'s Partch 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

But he has long since established himself as “one of the most commanding classical actors around,” as the critic Ben Brantley once called him. Artistically in Sync, and Reunited for ‘The Merchant of Venice’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

“But there is real work that needs to be done in the classical musical community.” That sound you’re hearing is classical music’s long overdue reckoning with racism 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

A new award for the best compendium of classical music was also added.  ArtsBeat: Grammys Reinstate Latin Jazz Award 2012-06-08T15:25:34Z

He had been asked a question about his sprawling presence in classical music as arguably the world’s most influential conducting teacher. The Teacher Behind the World’s Great Conductors 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z

As a young man, his father fell under the sway of Osceola Blanchet, a high school chemistry teacher in New Orleans who evangelized for classical music on the side. A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

It's not a flashback in the sense of cinema, which is a classical memory in the right order. "It's not about the terrorists": "Revoir Paris" captures fragmented memories after mass shooting 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Carnegie Hall is launching an on-demand video network that features recorded performances of classical artists known for performing at the famed venue. New York’s Carnegie Hall launches on-demand video network 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

We might be experiencing an era of classical rejuvenation. Why the tale of Achilles and his lover still has the power to move us 2012-06-02T23:06:04Z

At the last concert of the Hollywood Bowl classical season Thursday night, two fellows made their Los Angeles Philharmonic debuts. How much difference can one mandolin make? Bowl audience hears a fresh spin on 'Four Seasons' 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Tatum drew on so much music, from stride to classical, that he gave the impression of endless possibility at the piano. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z

Not pop, not jazz, but classical; and not purely for pleasure, either. Perspective | The secret life of a music director 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

It was “Adoration,” an original ballad flecked with classical filigree, and he gave it a warmly dignified calm. Kevin Eubanks Begins Life After ?The Tonight Show? 2010-05-30T21:03:00Z

“While his contemporaries in bluegrass were experimenting in swing in the 1940s and ’50s, Sprung was expanding the acceptable banjo repertoire to include — in addition to swing — ragtime, pop and classical styles as well.” Roger Sprung, Banjo Virtuoso of N.Y.C. Folk Scene, Dies at 92 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

For fans of classical and symphonic music, the next few days are like a bowl full of candy bars offered on the porch at Halloween: which one to choose? Invasion of the classical concerts 2011-10-13T04:22:02Z

The spacious calm of his softly contemplative long notes, the effortless fluency with which he rode the cusp between jazz and classical styles: these opened up important areas of American music. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Season Gala, With Robbins and Balanchine 2013-05-09T21:10:33Z

And he has discussed Dowland’s songs, and other classical works, with a passion that shows that his heart is in the right place: he loves this music and wants people to hear it. Music Review: Sting and Trudy Styler as Robert and Clara Schumann 2010-07-01T18:13:00Z

From which I infer: Listening to classical music may not make you smarter, and reading this book certainly won’t. In search of the Mozart effect 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Millepied, 35, is a former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, but has no previous ties to the company, and is known for his innovative work outside classical ballet. Fancy footwork 2013-01-25T12:21:34Z

She discussed her career, her views on “Tár” and sexism in classical music in a phone interview from Paris. A Conductor’s Battle With a Classical Music Gender Barrier 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

Having trained as a classical actor, he went to Los Angeles with big ideas, only to discover he was unprepared for a life of near-constant auditions, few callbacks and superficial social interactions. A Man Goes on a Journey 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Months later he reappeared in Moscow, becoming a celebrity in ballet-loving Russia by winning a televised competition - a sort of "X Factor" for classical dancers. Runaway dancer Sergei Polunin returning to London 2013-05-28T15:25:22Z

In classical Western architecture, these figures generally support balconies or roofs. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

“It’s a great time for an orchestra like the New York Philharmonic to visit, as we cultivate new destinations for classical music.” New York Philharmonic to Perform in Georgia 2010-06-22T22:15:00Z

Not only do they not rise to the radical possibilities of their plans; they don’t deliver the more familiar yet equally classical gratifications that their movie might offer, either. The Weird Problem with “Focus” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

She teaches yodelling in every form, from country, blues and techno to classical and jazz. Berlin is alive with the sound of urban yodelling 2013-02-08T11:38:13Z

A classical actor particularly celebrated for his performances of Shakespeare and Molière, he is a versatile, conscientious stylist who has no interest in winning laughs by winking references to the gender switch. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z

A gifted classical and jazz trombonist as a youth, he graduated from Crispus Attucks High School, then a segregated institution for blacks in Indianapolis. David Baker, Who Helped Bring Jazz Studies Into the Academy, Dies at 84 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

FRI-SAT Concert of classical pianists and traditional Russian music, 7 p.m. Community calendar 2012-06-21T01:23:04Z

But now China is waking up as a new force for culture, specifically for classical music. 'Crouching Tiger' composer Tan Dun will give L.A. Phil a martial-arts workout 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

The wood-paneled boat is a floating concert hall for classical music and offers a spectacular view of the historic bridge and Manhattan beyond. Trip Tips: New York City for music lovers 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The description of his childhood can make painful reading, but the book’s discussion of the role of race in classical music — Mr. Green is African-American — is timely. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

But while Mr. Ratmansky draws from the classical canon, he also shapes the movement with his own accent, with the aim of telling the story with greater immediacy. Revisiting ‘The Fairy’s Kiss,’ a Ballet About an Artist’s Destiny 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

The tendency to associate classical music with murderous insanity is a curious neurosis of the American pop-cultural psyche. Finally, A Non-Embarrassing Classical-Music Scene in a Blockbuster Movie 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

And no, Opera on Tap is not a drink — it really is classical opera performed in a bar. Go to a dive bar, drink beer — listen to opera? 2 writers experience Opera on Tap at Blue Moon | Art Outings 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

The display of his characteristic work, above, seen as often on T-shirts as in galleries, is accompanied by talks, a classical music concert and DJ sets. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Still, how much do definitions really matter in classical music anymore, in an era of crossover, fusion and general experimentation? Review: ‘The Book of Disquiet,’ Opera as One Man, With Films 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Within a culture changing as drastically as that of India today, how will the Indian classical dance forms adapt? Critic?s Notebook: Nrityagram Dance and Other Indian Troupes in New York 2012-03-25T23:19:52Z

She lent her classical aesthetic to functional goods, too, including bowls, magnifying glasses, razors and even a pizza cutter done in sterling silver, a metal she favored and helped popularize as a luxury choice. Famed Tiffany jewelry designer Elsa Peretti dead at age 80 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

And as a classical crossover album it landed her on the Billboard charts. Perspective | How a classical musician turned 400-year-old French songs into a modern hit 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Paul P paints a youth in shadowy profile, like a classical hero. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

The visit is not only a powerful sign of Mr. Dudamel’s fast rise as a conducting star but also of El Sistema’s emergence as a force in the world of classical music. Gustavo Dudamel and Los Angeles Philharmonic Hailed in Caracas 2012-02-14T23:33:58Z

Daniel Barenboim and Edward Elgar have made for one of classical music’s most unusual love affairs in recent years. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

In the same way Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same for the mandolin. In his Hollywood Bowl debut, Avi Avital aims to reshape the sound of classical music 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

“She was so clear in her teaching and her choreography — even though they were short works, they covered the spectrum: There was classical comedy, neoclassical, an African-influenced dance.” Twyla Tharp’s Troupe Prepares for a Milestone Tour 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Still, the vast majority of classical performances involve traditionally trained voices and instruments that haven’t changed much in centuries — performing without a trace of amplification. For a Music Critic, a Vacation That’s All Too Quiet 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

Maybe it's her education in classical piano, maybe it's her gift at writing. March's best music from across the MAP 2011-03-14T11:24:55Z

Bates is a Juilliard-trained classical composer who also performs in clubs under the name DJ Masonic. Composer throws the Kennedy Center a great party 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

The daughter of visual artists, Yanya grew up in London. listening to Turkish and classical music, and picking up a guitar at 12. New this week: Plenty of Dolly Parton and ‘Lucy and Desi’ 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

"Maybe it's not classical theatre but it is a theatrical performance with just a different approach to the audience – they're in the show instead of watching it from outside," says Smet. Ontroerend Goed: touch-sensitive theatre 2013-03-11T03:20:18Z

Our propensity for destruction has been a source of cackling amusement at least since Aristophanes and the age of classical comedy. | 'Long Story Short': Colin Quinn Performs at 45 Bleecker Street 2010-08-16T21:32:00Z

Much of the classical music industry has since abased itself at Mäkelä’s feet. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

She uses the bright, peppy context of a classical sitcom structure to do so, along with that genre’s shortcuts to resolution. Review: In ‘The Hot Wing King,’ a New Recipe for a Family 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

The common factor was that they were all composers whose music I felt was essential to include if I was to present a rounded portrait of today's classical music. Contemporary classical music guide round-up 2013-05-20T16:18:23Z

Over my many years of reviewing, I’ve often been asked for advice from newcomers to classical music, people excited by what they’ve heard, and eager to hear — and to learn — more. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

For these reasons, Black women have rarely appeared in classical depictions and reproductions. In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

The rest of the festival lineup includes classical music from across Europe. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

“The Late Starters Orchestra” is an anthem for the amateur, and if more people to took up an instrument with Goldman’s level of commitment, our classical music culture would surely improve. ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman

Tamhane spent four years researching, filming and editing “The Disciple,” which follows a would-be classical music vocalist who struggles to balance his craft’s centuries-old traditions with contemporary Mumbai. ‘The Disciple’ returns India to Venice film fest competition 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

The “traditional book culture,” as he put it in “The Two Latin Cultures,” one nourished in cathedrals and monasteries, began to rely on classical models in teaching grammar. Ronald G. Witt, Who Gave the Renaissance a New Birthdate, Dies at 84 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Statistically speaking, they face an uphill battle in classical music, not only as people of color, but also as women in a field that remains challenging for female composers. Meet the 11-Year-Old Girls Whose Music Wowed the Philharmonic 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

He planted one foot gleefully in the popular culture of Broadway; the other incautious and questing one sought footing in the slippery realm of classical. Leonard Bernstein at 100: Why the music world is making this the Year of Lenny 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

I remembered this while listening to five new albums recently released on the Kairos label — all featuring members of Klangforum Wien, an Austrian chamber orchestra with a strong reputation in contemporary classical music. The Thrill of a Contemporary Classical Concert, Captured on Disc 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Like so many transplants, Raphael fell under the spell of the Eternal City’s classical substructure: Rome itself, its layers, its ruins and relics, its ceaseless commerce with the past, became a source of inspiration. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

It’s a very short and interesting time in Russian classical art and there is something very naïve and forceful about it. A Russian Art Dealer Sets Sights on London 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

R&B fell to its lowest share since 1998 but classical, hip-hop and reggae all increased their share on the previous year. Pop and rock rule sales in 2012 2013-01-14T11:18:46Z

The Trocks forgo the story in favor of Spanish styling and the classical variations that come with a ballet happy ending. Dance Review: Les Ballets Trockadero at the Joyce Theater 2012-12-19T22:32:27Z

However high-minded, the history of classical music is riddled with worry and an obsessive desire for reinvention. Evolution, revolution, smevolution: The future of classical music 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

Ethel Smyth, suffragist and composer, is among several female composers receiving fresh, deserved attention as the classical music industry tackles its diversity problem. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Curiously, Mr. Wilford’s path to the pinnacle of the classical music business began with silence: As a young manager, he introduced the mime Marcel Marceau to the United States. Ronald A. Wilford, Manager to a Host of Legendary Maestros, Dies at 87 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

You played classical guitar and your fingertips were hardened from many years of playing; when I finally got my hands on my own guitar, I was very proud when my fingertips grew harder like yours. A letter to… Gramps 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

“Both men also relied on their positions of prominence in the small classical music community to ensure that those women remained silent.” Cleveland Orchestra Fires Two Musicians for Sexual Misconduct 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

They also learn a few survival strategies for classical musicians, such as how to deal with contract negotiations and handle taxes. From playing music in a barn to a state park, Olympic Music Festival has been undergoing reinvention 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

His often undistinctive instrumental works, which will fill a program by Juilliard Baroque on Nov. 2, are a staple of classical radio. Review: American Classical Orchestra Revives a Rarely Heard Telemann Masterpiece 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Longmyer grew up outside Washington, D.C., where she trained as a classical cellist. Katie Longmyer Connects Young Artists to Corporate Types 2014-04-11T22:04:01Z

In shot after shot, Kenna strikes a fine balance between classical elegance and subtle experimentation. Kenna’s ‘Memories and Meditations’: the world through a lens 2012-12-06T21:10:11Z

The relics of classical music are no less venerated. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z

Hamlisch also enjoyed a parallel career as an orchestral conductor, regularly conducting "pops" concerts – of light classical and popular music – with orchestras in Pittsburgh, San Diego, Pasadena, Washington DC, Milwaukee and Dallas. Marvin Hamlisch obituary 2012-08-08T12:26:28Z

When I started playing my own stuff, people in the classical world would say: "Who does he think he is, writing his own music when he could be playing Beethoven?" Nigel Kennedy 2013-03-05T17:45:00Z

Didn't Rosenman put in a number of classical music references in "Rebel"? L.A. Phil plays 'Rebel,' 'Casablanca' and 'Waterfront' as the live-to-picture craze grows 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

There’s a delightful audacity in prefacing the weighty Ninth with one of Beethoven’s slenderer works, the overture to “King Stephen,” which is built around an ingratiating little tune that sounds like a classical music box. McGegan, BSO offer slender, uneven, but compelling Beethoven Ninth 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

It, too, is rich in its details, though the conceit here is classical antiquity rather than exoticism. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

But there is no disentangling the performance of classical music from a state of political affairs that many object to. Fiddling While Venezuela Starves? Bolívar Symphony Opens Carnegie Season 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

In its modernization of classical Asian gestures, his work is more suavely stylish than philosophically or spiritually illuminating. Art Review: A Fine Line: Style or Philosophy? 2011-06-23T22:45:46Z

Mr. Wilder did eventually achieve his goal of performing in a classical ensemble. Joe Wilder, Horn Player, Dies at 92; Elegance Was His Theme Song 2014-05-10T00:40:17Z

We embrace the classical, but we had to simplify things and lift off the message about older times to bring the apartment into the present. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z

Years ago it might have been jazz; this time he has filled Mnuchin’s imperious quarters with classical Japanese court music, further shaking up fixed notions of Otherness. David Hammons Is Still Messing With What Art Means 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

To which might be added: Zen poetry, classical, modern and contemporary painting and sculpture, domestic pottery, driving cars, humming birds, gulls and reptiles, eclipses of the sun and moon. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z

Partly through Mr. Vardi’s efforts, the viola emerged from the shadows, with solo recitals now a routine feature of classical concert programming. Emanuel Vardi, a Champion of the Viola, Dies at 95 2011-02-07T05:02:48Z

Given the nature of this column, stick to contemporary classical. Notes from the musical margins 2011-03-13T00:04:00Z

"No, no, no, no - I'm a big fan of classical music," insists the composer. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

That’s a pity, since this company is not just one of the world’s most important classical dance ensembles, but is also in a fascinating state of evolution. Dance Review: In London, a Triple Bill From the Bolshoi 2010-08-02T21:06:00Z

And US classical pianist Van Cliburn passed away aged 78, two years after being honoured by President Obama with the National Medal of Arts. In pictures: Stars we lost in 2013 2013-12-30T01:27:27Z

He started as a classical actor and he understands classical texts. Michael Grandage brings five star-studded plays to West End 2012-06-15T17:09:14Z

"It's a more classical approach, a study of a powerful man destroyed by hubris. The kind of tragic hero you don't often see nowadays," the publication added. Pulitzer-winning play 'Disgraced' probes identity, prejudice 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

He’s primarily a classical stylist, and it took years for him to cast off his naturally guarded persona. New Faces (and Bodies) in Classic Roles at New York City Ballet 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Essex teenagers Jonathan & Charlotte, despite being beaten into second place on Britain's Got Talent this year by a dancing dog, have managed to become reasonably – if fleetingly – famous for their classical crossover warblings. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z

Today, when classical music is eager to reassert its relevance to the world at large, this kind of historical presentation appeals to presenters. Perspective | Did you want to commemorate Armistice Day? Classical music thinks you should. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Lawson, who received a master's in fine arts from UC Riverside and is also a classical pianist, currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Gallagher Lawson discusses creativity and his debut novel, 'The Paper Man' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

One can look back appreciatively, of course, on many one-of-a-kind classical offerings Kahn championed, in the conviction that he was cultivating a local audience that would itself grow ever more sophisticated. How will the Shakespeare show go on without Kahn? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

On the other end is another institution exhibiting a mix of classical antiquities and modern Chinese art, the Long Museum West Bund. An Arts Explosion Takes Shanghai 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

His story is partly about persistence and partly about the hypercompetitive world of classical music, where conservatories produce far more talented players each year than there are spots for at top festivals or orchestras. At Tanglewood, a Young Musician Leaps From the Stage Crew to the Stage 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

“We are not doing this in a classical aesthetic context that emphasizes the beauty of the works,” he said. A Long-Awaited Museum Opens, With Agony and Ivory 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

She dreams of one day joining “a classical company in Europe or Russia,” she said. An Alaskan Ballet Dancer Hones Her Craft at the Bolshoi 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

But in at least one area the Little Orchestra Society, whose music director is now James Judd, is bucking the trend in classical music: The average age of its audience is dropping. The Little Orchestra Society Limits Schedule and Aims for Younger Audience 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Impulsively abandoning his comfortable post as a teacher of classical studies in Bern, Switzerland, he travels to Lisbon. Movie Review: Jeremy Irons and Lena Olin Star in ‘Night Train to Lisbon’ 2013-12-05T23:12:57Z

These pages have chronicled L.A.’s history of women in classical music for more than a century. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

“Prince is our generation’s classical music,” he said. Prince Announces His Memoir, Funkily 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

The Most Rev Justin Welby will host the Classic FM breakfast programme as a one-off Easter special playing a selection of classical favourites and music inspired by the Easter story. Archbishop of Canterbury to present Classic FM breakfast show 2013-03-27T17:38:06Z

He had a bad case of the anywhere-but-here attitude endemic in some Romantic artists and preferred to draw from history and classical genres rather than current events. At the Met Museum, the Grand Enigmas of Delacroix 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The site in Trastevere identified as the oldest synagogue in Rome — a humble brick house with a small arched loggia at narrow, cobbled Vicolo dell’Atleta, 14 — is not classical but medieval. Rome, Sacred Ground for Nearly 3,000 Years, and Counting 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Balanchine’s dances live on not as some doctrine of what classical ballet must be, but as an example of the highest expression of the art form itself. Letters: City Ballet: Reinterpreting Balanchine 2010-04-30T17:24:00Z

And both are addicted to form, mainly the classical kind. On the Runway: Far Beyond the Clothes 2011-06-10T17:40:38Z

He has classical roots in common with Michael Clark, the Royal Ballet prodigy turned punk choreographer. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z

Echoed his colleague, N. Ganchimeg, deputy director of the college, “This was within the stream of abandoning our traditions — instead classical music was promoted.” In Mongolia, the Horse-Headed Fiddle Rides Again 2010-08-25T13:53:00Z

“How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” is an old joke among classical musicians. Backstage: Renée Fleming to present a new concert series at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Social dancing references are threaded throughout the three works, adding warmer tones to their classical modern vocabulary, breezy spatial patterns and predictable depictions of romantic entanglements. Dance Review: Movements in Jazz, With Pollock and Coltrane 2010-03-01T22:27:00Z

People were starting to play light classical pieces on it — little Mozart pieces, little Bach pieces and pop music of the day. | Westchester: The New York Banjo Summit Is at Tarrytown Music Hall This Week 2013-01-12T02:55:29Z

His version was most persuasive, his balancing of classical and contemporary styles most assured, when the piano played alone; especially given the burden of outdoor amplification, his relationship with the full orchestra sometimes turned cloudy. The Knights and Timo Andres Fill Out Mozart’s ‘Coronation’ 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

In classical Christian paintings that center on the Madonna, the subject is usually serene, sometimes smiling and always, of course, immaculate. In the galleries: 12 modern Madonnas 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

For example, a representative flow of events in the novel goes like this: Lenu tells Lila that she earned top marks on her exam and will study classical languages in high school. HBO’s “My Brilliant Friend” Understands Its Source Material, But Its Diligence Feels Misspent 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Here, Davis’ modernist classical language collided with references to Duke Ellington and Parliament-Funkadelic alike. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

And technically, this is a cutback in that there will be only one, not two, full classical programs in Central Park this summer. Critic’s Notebook: New York Philharmonic Performs in the Parks 2013-07-11T21:34:28Z

“I come from a classical theater, but musical theater has been what I’ve done the most — what I love.” Barrington Stage Company Names Alan Paul as Artistic Director 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

And classical instruments appeared — and were sometimes abused — in what was perhaps the most extraordinary show of the evening. At GlobalFest, a World of Music, Costumes and Messages 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

This is part of a general lack of interest by those in charge of the Proms in the music of the classical and early Romantic periods, apart from Beethoven and Berlioz. Letters: Puzzling omissions from Proms programme 2012-07-23T19:59:02Z

It’s painstaking work — all done by hand — with classical guitar models and the methods of making them changing little over the last century. 12 Treasures of Europe 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Anyway the record is a screaming success, goes to number one in the classical charts on both sides of the Atlantic. TV review: True Stories: War Child 2011-02-16T08:00:04Z

He taught me how to play Baroque music and classical music, and simultaneously, he was teaching me to play Arabic music in the old, traditional way, with what we call Tarab. Ibrahim Maalouf Gives His Trumpet a Human Voice 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

The “Dies Irae” contains some of the most familiar passages in classical music, frequently heard in popular culture and recognizable by those who might not even have heard of the composer. Critics Pick Recordings to Celebrate Verdi’s Bicentennial 2013-12-26T22:00:58Z

Jailhouse performance may be most closely associated in the popular imagination with the live-in-prison country recordings of Johnny Cash, but the classical music world has increasingly reached out to audiences behind bars. Opera in Attica: Bringing Arias to a Maximum-Security Prison 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Though light on connoisseurship and classical archaeology, the show is an excellent refresher course on myths and epics. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z

A more significant problem came from the marketing of classical music once star performers, and their promoters, realized that big careers could be made from sticking to the classics. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

I hope Morlot will reconsider his reseating of the orchestra when he comes to conduct the major classical and romantic works that really need the violin sections split left and right. Morlot debuts with charisma, substance 2011-09-18T18:59:45Z

Precedents are found in the classical music world, Broadway theater companies and dance organizations where unionization has been a way to operate for decades. ‘We are in crisis mode’: Museum workers are turning to unions over conditions they say are untenable 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Miller Theater at Columbia University will present three classical concerts and a fourth of the improvisational “games” he began leading in the late ’70s. Turning 60, John Zorn Sees His Eclecticism as a Musical Norm 2013-07-10T12:00:01Z

“Nobody even knew about classical music, except for tidbits they might catch from some movie.” From Easter Island, a Pianist Emerges 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

What would-be immigrants couldn’t tell their interrogators they inscribed on the walls in the form of classical Chinese poetry—complete with parallel couplets, alternating rhymes, and tonal variations. The Lost Poetry of the Angel Island Detention Center 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

But an injury to his jaw forced him to go in other musical directions, including as a composer of more than 2,000 jazz and classical works. David Baker, jazz scholar, composer and conductor, dies at 84 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

That said, for my first real season and our 60th anniversary, I have deliberately leaned into classical work. David Hallberg’s New Job: Decision Maker 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Most of her works, set to eclectic selections of classical and world music, folk songs, popular ballads and dance music, essentially offer a series of vignettes. Review: ‘Viktor’ Is Vintage Pina Bausch, Complete With Gravedigger 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

"Sonata Dementia," with a central "Scherzo Schizophrenia" and final "Allegro Paranoia," is an exceptional early essay in classical music flatulence. Work-in-progress 'LSD: The Opera' is powerful musical theater 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

Since his time with the Beatles and Wings, Mr. McCartney, 68, has long staked a claim in the world of classical music. Paul McCartney Composes Work for City Ballet 2011-02-23T23:05:59Z

But in classical music, for young performers to be pulling in even a modest income from a chamber group qualifies as a success story. Four Guys Named JACK 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

But because of her gender and sexual orientation — she is gay — she sometimes faced obstacles in the male-dominated classical field. A Pioneering Orchestra Boss Had ‘Unfinished Business,’ So She Returned 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ratmansky’s few narrative or structural tweaks in his telling of this celebrated tale are subtle, while his most original passages lie in the intricate classical poetry of its solo dances for leading men. Dance Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ With National Ballet of Canada, in London 2013-04-22T21:36:14Z

Eli credits his wife for a collection of pre-Columbian gold jewelry and the couple's support of classical music organizations, the Broad Stage and the Edye, a small performance venue in Santa Monica. How Edye Broad's 'natural eye' drew her billionaire husband into the art world 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the history of the transmission of classical texts has been a pretty efficient sorting mechanism: the survival of the fittest. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Like almost everyone else involved in classical music, Dausgaard is concerned about the development of future concert audiences in a digital era where the concert hall is increasingly terra incognita. Meet Thomas Dausgaard, Seattle Symphony’s new music director 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

In the filmmaker’s “Festival of Beauty,” part of a tribute to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, athletes tumble, horserace and swan dive to a soaring classical score. “Dapper” and dangerous: The ugly history of glamorizing white nationalism 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

This is the kind of thinking that the institutions of classical music need to promote if we want the field refreshed by new music and musicians. The Score: A Pitch for New Music 2011-05-11T22:38:37Z

Timms added: “In terms of volume, probably, the amount of classical music being presented hasn’t changed much. The nature of it has changed, to some degree, though not fundamentally.” Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare actually acted in at least one of Jonson’s plays, while Jonson famously teased the “Hamlet” scribe for his meager command of classical language — “small Latin and less Greek,” in Johnson’s telling. The creation of William Shakespeare: How the Bard really became a legend 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

In the typical template for a classical concert, the crowd-pleasing concerto is the appetizer before the big, symphonic main course. Review | André Watts is star attraction at Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

When the women finally settle in neat rows they move through ballet positions, which is revealing about the effort, resilience and purity required for classical ballet. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bayadère’ at Met Opera House 2012-05-23T22:30:07Z

Even the most impressive home theaters cannot reproduce the magic of live performance — particularly when it comes to classical music and opera, among the last unamplified forms of music. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The installation, which runs through Thursday, is a collaboration of the Nouveau Classical Project — a group devoted to introducing new and classical music to diverse audiences — and the artist Mad Mohre, who conceived the project. Spare Times for Aug. 24-30 2012-08-23T22:17:17Z

A number of classical soloists are creating maverick careers within the standard concert establishment. Perspective | A star violinist rebels against what she’s supposed to play — or wear. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

But it also was squarely in keeping with his championing of contemporary classical music, neither parroting nor repudiating some of the experimental musical motifs of his time. Steven Stucky, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of intricate musical wit, dies at 66 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

In contrast to the sprawl that blights many other classical festivals, Ojai is a concentrated burst of intellectual energy, easily reached just outside Los Angeles. 15 Classical Music Festivals to See This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

“In Pittsburgh, we didn’t study just the American classical music, also sometimes referred to as jazz,” he said. A Pair of Ahmad Jamal Live Albums Capture an Innovator in His Prime 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

If you don't mind the faint sense of publisher opportunism, this is the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work in the future. Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard – review 2013-03-24T11:30:01Z

In classical music discussion forums, his admirers persuaded others that his “alleged” victims could well be liars, and had most likely suffered no harm anyway. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

People who say it mean to indicate that classical music is static and dusty, a reliquary of the past. Perspective | How do you get to Carnegie Hall and Met Opera museums? Practice isn’t the problem. 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

A tour of these shows creates the impression that classical music, often derided as near death, is thriving. In unusual New York City venues — such as restaurants — the taste for classical music expands 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

The duo wrote orchestral music for the Chicago Symphony and other classical ensembles, drawing on traditional instruments and virtuosity. Mouse on Mars at M.I.T.: A Symposium Becomes a Dance Party 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

As is common today, he takes several choruses at fast tempos that undermine their sense of classical repose. In Brussels, Taking ‘Orphée et Eurydice’ to Another Realm 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Campbell was brought up in the classical world, as a piano student bound for the concert hall stage; but she was also attracted to different types of music — especially musical theater. A Conductor Arrives at Encores! With a Jerry Herman Rarity 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

“He envisioned that the Beatles would be like the great classical composers and be remembered long after they were gone.” The Gay Architects of Classic Rock 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Lithuanian accordion player Martynas, who recently topped the classical music album chart, will also be performing. Jenkins headlines BBC Proms in Park 2013-08-21T10:14:08Z

An all-American artist, drawing on American vernaculars in his infectiously popular music, he was neither the impenetrable composer nor the forbidding conductor of which classical music stereotypes are made. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

One of her colleagues is Dr. Salim Namour, who, in a grim motif, cues up his iPhone with classical music before operating. ‘The Cave’ Review: Do No Harm, for as Long as Possible 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

“By writing it as an autobiography, Ms. Tindall seems to be saying that everything that went wrong in her life is the fault of the classical music world.” Blair Tindall, Whose Music Memoir Scandalized, Dies at 63 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

It's got glass doors and poured-concrete steps and is flanked by a pair of ersatz classical columns. Rediscovering Birmingham's movie meccas 2010-03-30T15:38:00Z

The first thing the classical pianist James Rhodes does after sitting down is to order a decaffeinated coffee. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z

BBC Music will encompass TV and radio programming, digital services and schemes to support emerging talent including the introduction of classical music to UK primary schools. Stars unite for BBC Music song 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Completed in 1644, the building is often considered among the finest examples of Dutch classical architecture. Mauritshuis Is Set to Reopen on Friday in The Hague 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Countless fans who’ve never experienced a classical concert can identify a suite’s worth of “Star Wars” motifs with a connoisseur’s passion. Hollywood composer James Newton Howard unveils world premiere at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

“I danced all of classical ballet and dreamed of something new,” she said. Maya Plisetskaya, Ballerina Who Embodied Bolshoi, Dies at 89 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

There’s no getting around the fact that classical music is built on ritual and restraint and ceremony. Caroline Shaw piano concerto premiere turns classical tradition on its head 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Like a cursed madwoman in classical myth, Yeong-hye seems both eerily prophetic and increasingly unhinged when she begins starving herself, hoping to transform into a tree. ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Skinner was born in Oxford to two classical musicians. Cavetown’s Heartfelt Bedroom Pop Brings Kindness to a Cruel World 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Each performed something from her instrument’s classical repertory and something contemporary. Review: Music From Japan Brings In Some Neighbors as Well 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

It also starred Mr. Servillo and was set in the sepulchral halls of power in Rome, filled with classical busts, where politicians have been wheeling and dealing uninterruptedly for millenniums. Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Great Beauty’ Explores Italy’s Decline 2013-09-08T21:23:29Z

My mentors fought for my inclusion in the classical world. A Violinist on How to Empower Asian Musicians 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

He attended high school about a block away, studying classical painting at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. This New Orleans Artist Challenges the Way People See Things 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

If, for example, I express my delight in classical music, and you adore Mozart, then you may feel we’re more similar than my obvious revulsion at your political opinions might have led you to believe. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z

“They are performing music that germinates from the performer himself, and taking away sheet music seems to take a classical musician closer to that.” Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z

At the forefront of musicians who brought classical to new audiences in nontraditional venues, he discovered the Tractor some years back when he played the Bach Cello Suites there. Next at the Tractor Tavern: fortepiano and cello 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

“The whole classical music world — orchestras, operas, soloists, conductors and especially the programming people — we need to change our views,” she continued. A Conductor Becomes a Virtual-Concert Jet-Setter 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

As for Watson, no one was ever clearer about his own unlikely beginnings as a classical dancer: "I was outstandingly odd-looking, very skinny and bendy," he said in an interview with this paper. MoveTube: Wayne McGregor's Infra 2013-01-31T12:34:56Z

It was a perhaps unprecedented moment in classical music’s patriarchal history: two women, side by side, composing operas. She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

“It will also help jazz gain the same level of respect around here that classical music does.” Arts: Sleepy Jazz Scene Shows Signs of Awakening 2010-05-16T01:58:00Z

Reviewing the society’s opening night last month in The New York Times, Zachary Woolfe chided the organization for “a conservatism extreme even by classical music’s low standards.” Chamber Music Society’s Leaders on Balancing Old and New 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Whelan has performed a broader and more varied repertory than almost any other female principal in City Ballet’s history, spanning romantic, classical and contemporary roles with extraordinary versatility and range. Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Like a modern version of a classical tragedy, the play takes place in real time, with a kitchen clock counting the minutes to the fateful moment when Jessie utters her final “'night, Mother.” A wrenching ' 'night, Mother' at Lost Studio 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

The tableau evokes duets from classical Indian musicals as well as the golden age of MGM. ‘Naatu Naatu’ From ‘RRR’ Is a Worldwide Hit, but It Draws on Very Local Traditions 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

The concert on Friday also showed a major institution attempting to address issues of racial and gender representation in classical music that have grown only more gnawing over the past year and a half. The New York Philharmonic Returns, in the Midst of Transitions 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

Its nostalgia has the air of a righteous crusade on behalf of classical modes of filmmaking that had inspired the following generations’ extreme works and extreme experiences. Where Wim Wenders Went Wrong 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

So the finished basement den of our house on Long Island was my private musical refuge, where I practiced the piano — a boxy old upright — and listened to classical records. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

He tried another classical track, which felt too clichéd. Five Short, Dark Comedies About Smartphone Obsession 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

One performance by the classical choir Tallis Scholars will be held in nearby Montgomery church, while the Escher String Quartet will play in the Reardon Smith Theatre at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. Festival marks Britten centenary 2013-06-20T07:49:58Z

Ms. Brandt has been the most outstanding classical stylist in Ballet Theater’s corps for some time; Ms. Shevchenko, a soloist, displayed an unsuspected luster. Ballet Theater Presents a New Version of ‘Raymonda’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

As to the new classical music being produced … it’s a matter of taste I suppose, but is not music primarily meant to delight and be embraceable? Is ‘Playing It Safe’ Bad for Classical Music? 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

If you’re a classical music fan who thinks the Soulful Symphony is a pops concert, or not for you, that’s okay. Perspective | The Soulful Symphony reinvents itself, elevating music’s American roots 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

“A stirring show of Ukrainian defiance,” a review in The Daily Telegraph said of the orchestra’s performance at the Proms, the BBC’s classical music festival. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

And, among a collection of theaters that are mostly in the Beaux-Arts and classical styles, it is the rare Times Square playhouse in the neo-Colonial design. Big Ideas for a Tiny House on Broadway 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Spektor’s classical training is obvious in the way she holds notes over and transforms them into dramatic runs. Regina Spektor’s “…Cheap Seats”: The Return of the Pop Maverick and Her Piano 2012-06-01T10:45:25Z

And rather than tell a life story — which in opera tends to result in episodic, undramatic works — Cruz hews to classical unities, with a focused plot that unfolds on the Mexican Day of the Dead. In San Francisco, a Week of Destination Opera 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

In a statement, he said that “after more than four decades of working on the artist management side of classical music, I couldn’t pass up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” ArtsBeat: Met Opera Appoints Assistant General Manager for Artistic Affairs 2014-02-18T17:00:01Z

Kerala is synonymous with kathakali, a classical dance form known for its dramatic stories of gods and demons, and elaborate masks, headdresses and makeup. 36 Hours in Kochi, India 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

This includes freestanding assemblages and wall sculptures, both figurative and abstract, that combine natural and discarded elements to riff on classical architecture, the nature of portraiture and colonization. Datebook: Jimmie Durham's long-awaited U.S. retrospective, masculine and feminine and the nature of translation 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Some of the splicing of one classical hit-parade number into another is cleverly horrid. Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-03-08T22:36:23Z

Three of just four paintings on show are derived from photos of unchoreographed art spaces: a modern storage room, a museum backroom crowded with classical sculptures, and the anonymous wall of a warehouse. Artist of the week 132: Andrew Grassie 2011-04-01T10:35:10Z

In the classical tradition, a song often evokes intimacy and solitude: a poet baring vulnerability, a composer painting a miniature. ‘Doppelganger’ Review: A Soldier Confronts His Mortality 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z

The orchestra was just being factual in ginning up a little excitement at a climactic moment in the six-decade career of one of the most eminent figures in classical music. For Riccardo Muti, a Grand Sort-of-Finale in Chicago 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

They are popsy but not quite pop, yet not quite classical either. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra, at Zankel Hall 2012-03-25T21:32:27Z

The original “Fantasia” is a feature-length animated film intended to popularize classical music. Honky-Tonk Tchaikovsky? ‘Fantasia’ Game Offers a Way 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

"I am fascinated with how in classical art narrative is dealt with," Luhrmann told reporters on the sidelines of the Hong Kong International Art Fair, where his piece is being displayed. Luhrmann tackles installation in break from movies 2010-05-26T14:21:00Z

On a recent morning, her studio brimmed with paintings of voluptuous women in classical attire, inspired by glittery Oaxacan folk ceramics. Between Tijuana and San Diego, an Art Ethos Thrives 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

In both cases, I said I didn't feel either work was a "great" piece in the pantheon of classical music. Backstage no longer: Frank Bridge at the Proms 2011-08-04T21:30:01Z

Oguike has never created a classical ballet before, and it's typical of Ballet Black's intrepid commissioning style to have invited him to make a work. Ballet Black | Dance review 2010-03-25T23:30:00Z

I had to hide the fact that I liked classical music to hang out with the cool kids," she says. "My parents wanted me to have some culture so they force-fed me it. When Cat's Eyes met Ron Arad 2011-08-16T20:31:00Z

“There’s still a prevailing sense that musicians who’ve had a ‘classical training’ are somehow expected to live in a little elite box. Classical Crossover for the Win 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

The film features various music, from a classical concert to scene with a DJ at a nightclub to a karaoke performance, to Amadi, a musician, vamping with some friends. Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

It is painted in a quasi-academic, classical style, but the more you study it, the more bizarre it seems. 2010-02-06T06:34:00Z

The news that the Philadelphia Orchestra, founded in 1900, filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 jolted loose ripples of worry, anguish, anger and lament about the decline of classical music in the United States. ArtsBeat: Reader Response: Orchestras Are Over-Extended 2011-04-22T15:56:25Z

You might think that Christmas Eve would not the best night to attract an audience to a classical music concert. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z

The scene plays out against a chamber brass ensemble, in somber classical harmony — until the song swerves hard into guitar-driven incantation, accumulating layers in a proggish 7/8 meter. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z

After briefly studying architecture, he attended the Royal Conservatory in The Hague from 1958 to 1964, gradually shifting his focus from classical music to jazz. Misha Mengelberg, Bold and Spirited Jazz Pianist, Dies at 81 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

His classical paintings depicting Trump in a variety of absurdly valiant settings have drawn praise from the right and mockery from the left. Bask in the absurdity of this 2018 #MAGA gift guide 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Jean-Michel’s work is at the same time classical — a work of culture — and intense, loaded with a lot of emotions,” she said. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z

Nor was the context, which essentially served to add its own Pink Moment colorization of classical traditions. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

These releases apparently appeal to buyers intrigued by classical artists they have seen on television but who are not ready to buy a recording of Cello Sonatas or the Barber Violin Concerto. music: Ren?e Fleming?s Crossover to Rock, ?Dark Hope? 2010-05-28T14:47:00Z

Little popular memory remains of the statue’s early detractors, including the Roman Catholic clergy, who decried the use of a classical goddess to represent liberty, including on U.S. money. Perspective | Maybe it’s time to admit that the Statue of Liberty has never quite measured up 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Pure classical lines, no decoration, a towering truth: this is the focal point of a vast democracy that will tonight choose its leader. Obama's art army 2012-11-05T22:00:02Z

The delicate melancholy of Schubert’s “Arpeggione” Sonata was invested with great character, highlighting its classical proportions and structural cohesion. Review | Emmanuel Pahud dazzles at Kennedy Center 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

They’re the ne plus ultra of profundity in music, the classical style pushed to the very horizon of experience by abstract thought and free-spirited bravado. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

As classical music grapples with a history of racial and gender discrimination, Nézet-Séguin has emerged as a champion of overlooked composers. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Extends His Contract With the Philadelphia Orchestra 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

A sickly child who was bullied at school for being feminine, she grew in confidence after learning Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance. From pariah to demi-god: transgender leader a star at massive... 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

Caused by backlogs and staff shortages at embassies and consulates around the world, these delays are plaguing a classical field that depends on the easy travel of musicians from abroad. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

The bright side is that the Ailey dancers perform it well; its classical vocabulary shows off their balletic line, particularly that of the extraordinary Alicia Graf Mack. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Dancers Return to Lincoln Center 2013-06-13T21:00:28Z

But his years of slide guitar and five-year study of Hindustani classical music in India make him the perfect current artist to pair with Ravi Shankar. Music Match: If You Like Ravi Shankar, Listen to Harry Manx 2012-12-18T20:47:07Z

Mr. Joshi, who died on Jan. 24 at 88, was for decades one of the world’s most revered singers of Indian classical music. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Dies at 88; Indian Classical Singer 2011-02-06T03:15:10Z

Incorporating video and projections into performances with creativity and fluency, she has swiftly become one of the most interesting innovators in classical music. Netia Jones, Making Maurice Sendak’s Creatures Sing 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z

There wasn't a lot of pop music in the house – my father preferred classical. Edwyn Collins: Soundtrack of my life 2011-01-23T00:05:48Z

After the war, his intention was to enroll in music school, but he was stymied by a lack of classical training. John Bunch, Pianist With Goodman and Bennett, Dies at 88 2010-04-01T22:21:00Z

Can classical music, that sliver of a sliver of the modern zeitgeist, possibly matter? Evolution, revolution, smevolution: The future of classical music 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

On the ground floor, classical statues in the most wonderfully random poses mix freely with visitors, striking their own interesting poses. Frugal Traveler: A $100 Weekend in Paris 2011-02-15T19:35:21Z

Cast members — a mix of classical philosophers and Renaissance savants — converse, argue, scribble, read and declaim on a sprawling, but unified, “set” framed by classical architecture. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

So, too, the architectural insights he gleaned from Italy, which was reconfiguring the ancient vocabulary of rounded arches, classical columns and fierce symmetry for a new age. Review | This 16-century Spanish sculptor changed how his country looked at religious art 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

It neatly summed up the recital’s apparent aims: the rich but thin veneer of classical elegance giving way to other, unexpected possibilities. Review | Leila Josefowicz presents the violin, unfiltered, in Library of Congress recital 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

“If cartoons have become associated over time with any one musical genre, it is classical music,” the musicologist Daniel Goldmark writes in his book “Tunes for ’Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon.” A Children’s Show About Everything, Especially Music 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

With Doug’s Albin you get 10 performances for the price of one, because he has the deep theatrical training and classical skills to attack the layers of this character. ?La Cage? Imports Douglas Hodge, a Pinter Regular 2010-04-14T15:24:00Z

At the same time, experts admit they are baffled by much of the painting's content and are enlisting help in unlocking a series of classical puzzles. Cracking the Tintoretto code 2010-06-09T06:23:00Z

Still, Mr. Pierson said, the chance to conduct mainstream classical repertory like Beethoven’s Third Symphony, which will be parceled out among several concerts, was an opportunity he relished. Brooklyn Philharmonic Lands Alan Pierson as Artistic Director 2011-10-01T04:00:06Z

He was just beginning to dip his toe in the water of composing notated music, because he had classical training. An Advocate for Classical Music and Women 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

At that time, the “Oriental presence in classical music,” as a New York Times article put it, was a topic of discussion. A Violinist on How to Empower Asian Musicians 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

I believe that classical music is for everyone!” Music Review: Lang Lang International Music Foundation Gala at Carnegie 2013-06-04T22:07:16Z

But as Mr. Hogwood’s class shows, there’s a movement afoot to broaden classical music in China. Going Baroque in China 2010-10-27T13:19:00Z

Much of the philosopher’s thought turns out to resemble classical Eastern teaching: The author of “The World as Will and Representation” kept both a statue of Buddha and a bust of Kant on his desk. Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Alongside the everyday odds and ends are classical art materials: tubs of paint, stacks of ripped up inkjet prints and paintings created from photographs, acrylic and oil paint. Sarah Sze and the Art of Tracking Time 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

But Hutchison seemed most proud of the label’s work on classical records that seemed to come from a distant era. The Vinyl? It’s Pricey. The Sound? Otherworldly. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

The models strode onto a mirrored floor, which reflected the classical Rubens paintings on the ceiling and the hall’s grand chandeliers. Victoria Beckham's black dresses, chunky platform boots stage 'gentle rebellion' at London Fashion Week 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

He earned nods in such various categories as R&B, jazz, American roots, classical, music video and album of the year. Meet Jon Batiste, new Grammy winner with plenty going on 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Among them, the one that seems most pertinent to my field, classical music, is Michael Harris’s “The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection.” The Concert Hall as Refuge in a Restless, Web-Driven World 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

At the same time, he considers his choreography to be classical and is confused when people say it isn’t. Justin Peck Calmly Creates a Kingdom at City Ballet 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Rather, he has always been bright and witty, with an air of sophistication that led him to explore his love of world history, classical art, modernist literature and a worldly taste in cuisine. Queering Appalachia — finding chosen families online in an unforgiving landscape 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

The show ends with Rau dancing a solo, in which the shifting blend of east and west, classical and contemporary, offers its own metaphor of fluidity. Hetain Patel: Be Like Water – review 2012-11-28T14:00:44Z

To this end, Haefliger says he is always looking for ways to extend the festival's and classical music's influence both through education and civic projects. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

And at Rice University, a leading research institution in Houston, classical singing students will benefit from an anonymous gift that spurred the design of a new opera theater by Diller, Scofidio & Renfro. On Elite Campuses, an Arts Race 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

You also don’t see bold, classical pieces around, so they are filling a void in the market. On the Runway Blog: Stephens Sisters In Select Company 2011-11-11T16:09:22Z

Among the pieces are bewitching scores like “Oliver Galop,” “Virginia Polka” and “The Rainstorm,” which evoke 19th-century classical styles, as well as parlor songs and dance music of the day. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Often her subjects were inspired by classical mythology, though she also drew on 18th-century writers like Goethe and Laurence Sterne. Design: A Niche of Stylish Power 2011-07-03T13:02:00Z

To put the conservatism of classical music in perspective, compare it with other fields. Just Why Does New Music Need Champions? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

On Sunday at Carnegie Hall, she is joined by her acclaimed Vocal Ensemble — which champions her distinctive technique — and a host of musicians from the classical, jazz and D.J. worlds. A 50-Year Party, A Legend Revised 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

The two are specialists in the Indian classical dance form Odissi, from the Eastern state of Odisha, and are regular visitors to New York. How Dance Partners Create Chemistry Onstage 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

I like Japanese enka music, but now I listen to classical music on the radio. At 85, Takesada Matsutani Is Still Preoccupied With the New, and With Glue 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

“We’re in a cadenza fermata,” he said, referring to the moment in a classical concerto when the orchestra drops away and the soloist takes off on a flight of fancy. Concerts Disappeared. Piano Sales Survived. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

Now China is reversing the exchange, not merely performing Western classical music in China, but exporting it. China’s newest export hit is classical music 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The revered rapper is also the most commercially successful musician to receive the award, usually reserved for critically acclaimed classical acts who don’t live on the pop charts. Commercial and critical darling Kendrick Lamar wins Pulitzer 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Here he applied classical techniques as a kind of spice to his bluegrass. The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

At the Bolton Octagon, David Thacker is putting together a superb body of classical work as well as creating a real relationship with his audience that goes far beyond the old idea of educational outreach. Arts cuts mean theatres must learn to share the stage 2010-09-30T15:27:00Z

Allen Mandelbaum, whose fluid, sensitive English version of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” stamped his reputation as one of the world’s premier translators of Italian and classical poetry, died on Oct. Allen Mandelbaum, Translator of ?Divine Comedy,? Dies at 85 2011-11-05T05:21:48Z

Klagsbrun is known for paintings that flowingly interpret classical myths in which women transfigure into trees or flowers. Review | In the galleries: A heightened homage to trees and what they can teach us 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

For this edited conversation, Chen spoke about his quartet, why he's spending more time in Berlin and how to get kids interested in classical music. Violinist Ray Chen, 27, on his new group and classical music in the Instagram age 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

And the emphasis on physical stunt work and on the classical construction of suspense sequences has deepened the films’ niche appeal over time, contrasting sharply with a superhero cycle that’s embraced the plasticity of CGI. Perspective | Why Mission: Impossible is the best blockbuster franchise right now 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

She was equally regarded as a concert singer, performing classical and contemporary songs, including “Over the Rainbow.” Joanna Simon, Opera Singer from Famously Musical Family, Dies at 85 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Although he studied Jacobean drama at Oxford, Rudd's classical background hasn't prevented him from improvising alongside club-hardened comics, a talent that serves him mightily well in "Dinner for Schmucks." What makes Paul Rudd laugh 2010-07-30T00:29:00Z

That culture – of the modern Bengali – was neither ancient nor classical; it was hybrid, bourgeois, nationalistic and cosmopolitan, a byproduct of early capitalism and the colonial encounter. My hero: Ravi Shankar by Amit Chaudhuri 2012-12-12T17:35:01Z

Grouped in themes including Shakespeare's preoccupation with the medieval past, classical world, Venice and rebellion, they range from giant tapestries and royal portraits to intricate jeweler and everyday items, and span over 2,000 years. UK exhibition stresses Shakespeare's relevance today 2012-07-18T15:06:30Z

For its year-end classical music honors of 1991, the New York Times hailed “Frida” as the “Best Realization of That Clumsy Phrase ‘Opera/Music Theater.’” Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

The ways in which old and new music interact are a difficult subject in classical music. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Much of her early repertoire was markedly British, drawn from the English classical canon and rounded out by traditional folk songs. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

As a young Californian composer, he questioned all assumptions about the great classical music heritage, concert rituals and contemporary compositional styles, including the very pitches of the standard chromatic scale. Review: ‘Delusion of the Fury,’ With New Partch Instruments 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

A good many of his dances are set to appealing classical music from the 18th and 19th centuries. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z

The Kennedy Center itself is also presenting classical music. Kennedy Center announces notable 2017-2018 classical season 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

She began picking out melodies on the piano at 4, and a year later her parents, impressed, arranged for her to study classical piano at Vincennes University. 2010-01-30T06:09:00Z

Ikeda says the Tokyo String Quartet, with four Japanese musicians playing Western classical fare, was initially met with confusion in America. Tokyo String Quartet to make last Seattle visit 2013-04-12T19:35:10Z

From there he made the transition to other classical instruments. Rafael Puyana obituary 2013-03-09T18:43:43Z

The Kennedy Center is Washington’s main presenter of classical music. The National Symphony Orchestra’s forte for falling flat 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

She graduated with a master’s degree in classical philology from the University of Warsaw in Poland and completed a doctoral degree in classics at Princeton. Hanna Golab, Frederick Shipley 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

The canon of auteurs has expanded beyond the certified Old Masters of classical Hollywood, Japanese and European cinema. Is Sight and Sound’s List of 100 Greatest Films Too Tasteful? 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

“Its populist musical treatment of a classical story about a hero’s journey felt very specific to Public Works,” said Ms. deBessonet, who founded Public Works. An Unexpected Hero Will Visit Central Park: Here Comes Hercules 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Le Pied de Biche is a move away from the classical, sanitized gallery. Art Means Books and Tattoos at New Paris Gallery 2010-05-24T10:00:00Z

I don't like the term classical music – call it great music, serious music. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

He created a stir in the classical music world by quitting that post in anger over having been ignored by management when it appointed Christian Thielemann to lead a televised New Year’s Eve concert. Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z

Racine’s “Phèdre,” a classical tragedy about a woman cursed with a catastrophic lust for her stepson, gets a makeover. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

A serious student of classical music, he also learned to accommodate Hollywood’s demands. James Horner, Whose Soaring Film Scores Included ‘Titanic,’ Dies at 61 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

He wasn’t even sure he would remain in classical, or even stay in his current vocal range, he said. He Break Dances. He Pole Dances. He Sings Like an Angel. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

It is rare to find a classical singer who can truly project an aura onstage. The Artistry of the Soprano Julia Bullock 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

A House of Drone, Ecstatic and Raw, With a Potent Aura of Largess There’s an irreducible element of music that connects metal, industrial music, power electronics and classical minimalism, and no word exists for it. Music Review: ‘Drone Activity in Progress,’ at the Knockdown Center 2013-05-03T21:54:26Z

“Brian gave me my first record player,” he says, “and my first classical album, which was the Sibelius violin concerto.” The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z

The knotted destinies of its characters are like the family secrets in a Shakespearean or classical comedy but turned to a darker purpose. | 'Incendies': Scavenger Hunt for Family Secrets Across Time and Geography 2011-04-21T22:24:49Z

In place of the natural complexity of all things gothic, it imposed a chilly classical order. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z

Like its Latin American exemplar, Sistema Scotland is hoping to change the lives of the children of an underprivileged community through immersion in classical music. Big Noise orchestra's classical music proves instrumental in social change 2012-06-20T19:38:32Z

In the great plotless classical ballets, the prime subject is dancing itself. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

She talked about her dreams of wanting to be a classical pianist being deferred and she talked about politics and civil rights. Director of Nina Simone documentary: “We were in our edit room when the events of Ferguson were unfolding. It reminds you that the struggle is ongoing” 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

“That’s nice, but it’s more about shifting classical music’s place in society.” Perspective | ‘Now Hear This’ modeled itself after cooking shows. It found millions of viewers with an appetite for classical music. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Like others running classical music institutions today, Mr. Thomas is struggling to connect to a younger audience. Architecture Review: Gehry Design Plays Fanfare for the Common Man 2011-01-23T19:50:38Z

The result in Salome, and in his next opera Elektra, was an unremittingly heady mix of sound driving outrageous treatments of these classical and biblical dramas. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

It is, simply, one of the great classical recordings of all time. Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde – review 2013-05-22T14:33:11Z

As such, his sensibility could be described as classical. This week's new film events 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z

We should warn you that it's classical music, so if the kids are antsy, don't feed them chocolate, because this concert should be dazzling. Celebrating Tax Day 2011-04-15T17:28:00Z

In both the editorial and the novel, Hopkins questions the very idea that the classical tradition can be deemed "white" or "European." In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

Founded and staffed by Russian dancers in 1989, the school follows the rigorous Vaganova method, born in the early 1900s and still a gold standard for classical ballet training. Ballet treasures from the Treasure State 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Yes, classical music had achieved remarkable popularity in Depression and wartime America, but it was failing to put down deep cultural roots. Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

We're left with no choice but to fault classical music, for example, for failing to prosper economically. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

In truth, FIT serves the community more as a social sculpture than a classical exhibition space. In Transit: Transforming a Berlin Gas Station Into Art 2011-03-31T10:00:55Z

“You could call him one of the very few atomic reactors in classical music, in a positive way,” said Michael Haefliger, the executive and artistic director of the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

His recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, which he had played in Moscow, became the first classical album to go platinum and was the best-selling classical album for more than a decade. American classical pianist Van Cliburn dies at age 78 2013-02-27T19:27:55Z

That real people went to the football and pop concerts, not theatre or classical concerts or opera. Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts 2010-04-28T05:00:00Z

Our classical music, our classic theater, our Old Master artworks are presented in such halos of sanctity that it’s hard to apprehend them as the moving, vital things they are. Review | Art, exposed: In Series strips away convention, and hits a nerve 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

It was a decision that sent shock waves through the classical community, if not exactly surprise-waves. The Met is betting on a blockbuster lineup to make up for this canceled year. The future of opera may depend on it. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Rutkow is a graceful writer with a penchant for well-placed classical allusions, yet he possesses a distracting literary tic: a heavy reliance on the adverb “finally,” which occasionally occurs twice on the same page. The Utopian Quest to Link the United States and Latin America 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

She also was increasingly interested in virtuosity, especially through her encounter with classical ballet; but rather than absorb ballet technique, she staged a kind dialogue with it, sometimes an argument. Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp 2011-02-01T10:43:36Z

Still, the idea that unadventurous audiences keep classical music conservative is part of the accepted narrative within the field. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z

If you get through that hoop successfully, you’re admitted to the classical club. For Derek Jacobi, Now Is the Time for a Certain Role 2011-04-22T23:30:23Z

Florence is a classical violinist, one of the founders of an ambitious string quartet. Review: In ‘On Chesil Beach,’ a Honeymoon Gone Wrong 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

I tried to play everything I heard -- blues, R&B, gospel, even classical. Allen Toussaint, reluctant solo star 2013-11-07T15:52:00Z

Elder Ones is a potent and slithery new band led by Amirtha Kidambi, a vocalist drawing from South Indian Carnatic traditions as well as free jazz, experimental rock and modern classical music. Preview NYC Winter Jazzfest in 7 Tracks 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

The name is partly “a reference to the classical idea of apologetics,” Mr. Pearson explains in his editor’s notes. Jesse Pearson, an Editor in His Third Act 2013-02-01T22:54:46Z

His follow-up, a nuclear-war satire called The Day the Fish Came Out, flopped badly and he turned to classical drama, making Euripedes' The Trojan Women with Katharine Hepburn and Iphigenia with Irene Pappas. Michael Cacoyannis dies aged 90 2011-07-25T15:27:35Z

And fans of classical music, who tend to be a bit older than, say, the average Lorde fan, are not always comfortable adapting to new technologies. Detroit Symphony Dives Headlong Into Streaming 2014-03-21T22:02:56Z

It is disheartening that an eminent classical scholar such as Hall could have misread the Stoic phliosophers so badly. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

For a classical music event, she added, it was a notably diverse group, in age and race. The Sheku Effect: A Classical Music Star Rises 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

More recently she completed a degree in classical composition from City College in New York. Critic?s Notebook: Four Young Pianists on the Rise in the Jazz Scene 2011-10-06T22:37:04Z

Under the stage name “Blind Tom” Wiggins, he played his own compositions and improvised on the piano, demonstrating uncanny skills at replicating, note for note, pieces he heard — both classical works and popular songs. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

They credit the recent increase in viewers to partnerships with Russian classical music platform ParaClassics and Detroit Public Television. Detroit Symphony webcast sets record for viewers 2012-02-11T20:16:05Z

Well, yes: classical elegance, shapely curves, lovely voice. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 16-22 2012-11-15T23:10:06Z

Growing up in small-town Massachusetts, Ellis Ludwig-Leone lived in two worlds, studying classical piano by day and playing in high school rock bands at night. In San Fermin, Ellis Ludwig-Leone merges his two genres 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The legal procedural, which is juxtaposed with Viljar’s healing process and his decision to testify, unfolds in the conventional, classical middle distance, with surprising moments of un-Greengrassian sentimentality. Perspective | Paul Greengrass didn’t set out to make another movie about terrorism. But ‘22 July’ called to him. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

In this new body of work, “Horse in the Rough,” which debuts exclusively here, Bailey-Gates references early motion-study photographs — but applies a very current perspective, without the gender norms traditional to classical portraiture. The Emerging Photographer Inspired by Classical Portraiture 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Not one in for “the typical barracks soldier lifestyle” of drinking and crude humor, preferring to listen to classical music, read, and smoke a pipe – not typical grunt behavior. Serial recap – season two, episode six: five o'clock shadow 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

The eddies and whirlpools of jazz motifs and classical references in that playing were so densely intermingled they seemed almost impossible for the untutored listener to unpick. 50 great moments in jazz: Cecil Taylor's jazz piano revolution 2010-04-14T11:25:00Z

Once, orchestras played Tchaikovsky as a kind of borderline pops/“lighter” classical experience: a crowd-pleaser, if you will. Eschenbach starts two-week Tchaikovsky focus at NSO with unusual repertoire 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Specifically, a recital concert from a classical pianist, full stop. A Pianist Strolls Her Harlem History, and Scott Joplin’s 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Marrying director Henning’s deep knowledge of both classical theater and JFK conspiracy theories, the play transposes Shakespeare’s plot to the political intrigues of an Oliver Stone-worthy cabal at the highest levels of our government. Shakespeare meets Oliver Stone in 'The Tragedy of JFK' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

He did publicity shots of other stars in the 1950s, including Lena Horne, Perry Como and classical pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Alfred Wertheimer, photographer of the young Elvis Presley, dies at 84

Surely the highlight of this spring’s classical music schedule is this rare visit from the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, perhaps the world’s finest house. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

A century or so ago, when classical music thrived in a nation of immigrants, orchestras were a powerful force, flagship institutions that helped to put American cities on the cultural map. The Big Five Orchestras No Longer Add Up 2013-06-14T12:00:01Z

If you love dance, you're in good hands in Seattle, where you can find everything from classical ballet at its best to socially engaged contemporary work, plus programming to make both accessible for young audiences. Where to see dance in Seattle, from classical to cutting-edge 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

But this highly varied set is more explicitly classical in its harmonic mobility and melodic flourishes and more elaborately composed than Jarrett's work. Gwilym Simcock: Good Days at Schloss Elmau 2011-02-10T22:31:01Z

The 5 Browns are a classical piano-playing group consisting of three sisters and two brothers from Alpine, Utah. Father of Utah music group charged with abuse 2011-02-16T20:08:14Z

It is nearly irresistible to call it fatal or final or, in a classical mood, to call it hemlock. On Death and Dignity 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Jazz and classical music kick off two weeks of music, theatre, art, comedy and more. This week's new events 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

Every part of her body dances, often within the same phrase, as if in ricochets and crosscurrents, and she amalgamates melting softness with academic rigor, so that her most startlingly experimental moves look classical. 2010-02-15T22:48:00Z

A classical theater plans to debut a musical with her songs. Review | Signature Theatre’s ‘After Midnight’ has Christopher Jackson in it, but misses that live, in-person heat 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

She grew up playing the flute, sang in school and suspects she got some of her musical talent from her father, semi-professional classical singer. 'This is the top' _ Dutch singer on Broadway debut 2013-03-04T12:46:09Z

An Ebullient Mozart Sets Up a Ferocious Beethoven There is no easier sell in classical music than the late quartets of Mozart and Beethoven. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-03-22T20:42:33Z

It wasn’t using classical mime, which is the way ballets told stories, and it made sense and was funny. Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’ 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Not surprisingly the Largo from Chopin’s Sonata for cello and piano was the most convincing of the three classical arrangements. Music Review: ‘The Story of Babar the Elephant’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-21T22:50:07Z

He was also executive producer for the live performances in Manchester and London earlier this year and on album "Hacienda Classical", which he said gave fans songs they recognized with a classical twist. Former New Order musician, DJs mix classical and rave for new album 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Q: You have incorporated rock, Cajun, jazz and even classical into your music but have always kept a footing in blues. Sonny Landreth, never straying far from the blues 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Though the disc didn't hit the chart heights of her more popular records, fans catapulted "Night of Hunters" to No. 1 on the Billboard classical charts the week of its release. Tori Amos communes with classical, other pasts 2011-12-08T21:43:05Z

Running over eight weeks in the summer with a daily programme of orchestral concerts held mainly in the Royal Albert Hall, it is a firm fixture in classical music lovers' diaries. Proms fans call for a crackdown on touts as £12 seats fetch £500 2013-05-19T06:01:11Z

Biggest Cheat: It’s classical night, yet when Roshon and Chelsie took the floor they danced to an orchestral version of “Bad Romance.” Dancing with the Stars Watch: Putting the Classy in Classical 2012-05-01T12:30:56Z

Along with its classical allusions, it melds the fable-like haze of Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” with a heady drag of noir. Review | Yan Ge’s ‘Strange Beasts of China’ is a luminous, beguiling chronicle of fantastical beings 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

Salonen says he also wants classical music to have the flexibility to adapt to new technology. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

The fact that many band members have a solid classical background, he says, is "sort of a relief to orchestras around the country." Pink Martini arrives in Seattle with plenty of fizz 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z

But until relatively recently, when classical players and composers began to embrace the instrument’s full patrimony — popular and classical — musicians intent on establishing the guitar’s classical bona fides often showed a prickly defensiveness. Critic?s Notebook: Marathon at 92nd St. Y to Wrap Up Guitar Festival 2012-01-26T23:38:46Z

Long waits are not unusual in the classical music world, where major organizations and top talents typically plan their schedules four or five years in advance. Yannick Nézet-Séguin to Succeed James Levine as Met Opera’s Music Director 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

A classically trained singer, Ms. Grout first learned about classical Arab music from an online article as an undergraduate at McGill University in Montreal. ArtsBeat: American Singer Is a Finalist, but Not a Winner on ‘Arabs Got Talent’ 2013-12-09T20:52:05Z

I didn’t think about quotas of classical or modern, just what would be interesting to dance. Brigitte Lefèvre, Ballet’s Disciplined Rebel, Takes Her Next Steps 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

He's also created sensual arrangements of homely finds –pasta shells or glossy chestnuts – and sculptures riffing on fetish and classical remains. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-22T00:06:54Z

So when Cercone, who once worked as a classical violinist, called about making "Leap of Faith" into a musical, Menken quickly agreed. "Leap of Faith's" long, hard road to Broadway 2010-09-24T06:36:00Z

The Pittsburgh strike on Sept. 30 sent shock waves through the classical music world. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Strike Is Resolved 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Think of those “Mozart for Babies” CDs and the perception that classical music exists to form a soothing background. Lindsey Stirling’s Music Combines Classical and Dance 2014-05-02T22:32:38Z

“It was that good,” he said, “and I didn’t even know that there was such a thing like that. I thought art was just classical paintings in books.” This Modest New York Apartment Holds One of the Best Art Collections in Town 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

As classical music devotees wait until conditions are again hospitable and fears of the virus past, artists like Mr. Tao are trying to keep the art form going any way possible. For a Music Critic, a Vacation That’s All Too Quiet 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

While Mr. Kovner, a 70-year-old hedge fund billionaire, contributes generously to the cultural causes close to his heart – namely classical music – he’s not comfortable with the publicity that often comes with philanthropy. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

It was drafted by the National Civic Art Society, a conservative nonprofit that promotes the classical tradition in architecture, urbanism and the arts. Why so many architects are angered by "Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again" 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

If you’re going to improvise in jazz, your knowledge of harmony and theory has to be even deeper than that of a classical player. ‘Color of Water’ author, James McBride, reflects on race, politics and his new book 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Golabeck, a classical pianist, tells her family history and performs the demanding music live. Perspective | How are Washington theaters doing when it comes to producing plays by women? 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Much of his music was in the classical Indian mode. Ravindra Jain, Bollywood Film Composer, Dies at 71 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

As a youngster in Chicago he took classical flute lessons but was drawn to the city’s blues clubs. Review: Paul Butterfield’s Story Is Told in ‘Horn From the Heart’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

This system is corrosive to music, period — classical, jazz, hip-hop, everything. Kendrick Lamar Shakes Up the Pulitzer Game: Let’s Discuss 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

His biography has been chronicled and relationships charted between his photographs and everything from classical Greek and Roman sculpture to Andy Warhol's Pop art. How Robert Mapplethorpe went from America's pariah to America's sweetheart 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Laptops and Hip-Hop Hang Out With a Violin Emancipator at the controls, along with the classical violinist Ilya Goldberg, in a concert at the Highline Ballroom on Thursday night. Music Review: Emancipator Plays at Highline Ballroom 2012-02-03T23:23:15Z

Pediments, paneling, and parquet—whether period authentic or a later pastiche—suggest to many people that the furnishings should follow classical suit. Bruce Budd Redecorates Houston Mansion 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

“Mozart in the Jungle,” a half-hour comedic drama about “sex, drugs and classical music.” Amazon renews ‘Alpha House’ show, greenlights 6 new series 2014-03-31T19:30:50Z

Such vicarious voyages through the past and present of classical music from the comfort of your couch may be no match for the real thing. Perspective | ‘Now Hear This’ modeled itself after cooking shows. It found millions of viewers with an appetite for classical music. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

At times, plunging into a penché or rotating in an arabesque, she seems like the prototypical ballerina against which more skewed, less classical movement defines itself. Review: From Twyla Tharp, the Effort and Possibilities of Dancing 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

She suggested that Athens should become a bridge between past and present, the center of “a dialogue between our classical heritage and contemporary creativity.” The Athens Art Scene Goes Contemporary 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s not only the ancients who looked at athletes and saw classical ideals and paragons of beauty. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

And if his subject matter is sometimes brutal, the choreographic content is mostly firmly classical, though often extended into new expressive terrain. Kenneth MacMillan’s School of Ballet Sex, Neurosis and Grit 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Read more listings for classical music, dance, film, pop music, television and theater. Art Fall Preview: Over 100 Not-to-Miss Shows From East Coast to West 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

There is something classical and peaceful about them. People tree 2010-05-14T23:20:00Z

Venerable steelband from Trinidad known for their imaginative orchestrations of classical pieces. What the Queen Mum played on one's gramophone 2011-03-14T20:00:02Z

In a visionary yet risky attempt to entice new audiences to classical music, the complex is in Northeast Paris, near the ring road that separates the city center from its poorer, working-class suburbs. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

“He really is one of the most gifted conductors of today. On top of that, he is an unbelievable ambassador for opera, and classical music in general.” ‘We’re Like Athletes Here’: The Maestro With a Gym Habit 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Let’s be clear: If InfoWars is news, the yowling of feral cats is classical music, and Trump University the best place to invest your hard-saved tuition dollars. Trump doesn’t hate all media. He just has terrible taste. 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

In some sense “On Grand Strategy” is a traditional argument for the value of classical education in the broadest sense. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Synthesizing popular and classical influences has always been part of Ms. Wolfe’s style. Post-Minimalism and Folk Ballads Fuel a Composer 2011-02-01T22:00:25Z

Suss’s painting, which pictures a small classical sculpture along with an Egyptian god and queen, was actually inspired by a children’s book. Teaching a New Inclusiveness at The School 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

I like to listen to classical music: it’s thinking music. How to be alone: ‘I feel most alive when I'm with my own thoughts’ 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

The video evokes an impressive number of religious and classical motifs that intersect with questions of queer identity, marginalization and religion. Lil Nas X’s dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

The closest thing to a classical Netflix may just be Medici.tv, a website that was my ticket to the festivals at Verbier in Switzerland, Aix and Salzburg this summer. An Opera Lover Tests Streaming Services 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Austerely rendered in brushed black ink, classical Chinese literati paintings most often depict serene nature. Review | In the galleries: ‘Afrofuturism,’ defined in the moment, by nine artists 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Towards that unknown, like Orpheus, he made the most tumultuous and controversial journey of any modern classical musician. L’enfant terrible 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Whereas in the classical world things are very ordered, in the DJ world if you make a mistake, it's no big deal – you just stop the record and press play and start again. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z

What made Spring for Music exceptional is something that should be commonplace in classical music. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z

“Twelve” looks at composers who have bridged contemporary classical music and pop. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in January 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

In late summer, “prommers” will clamor for a place to stand in what aficionados have called the mosh pit for classical music. Around the World With Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

Today there’s a school of young composers who work in a style, often called indie or alt-classical, that draws on both rock and classical influences, as you’ve done since the 1960s. Q. and A.: With John Cale in Paris and Along the Borderline 2013-01-15T15:30:12Z

And classical music crosses international boundaries; governments of all kinds and all times have embraced it to enhance their prestige. Gustavo Dudamel and Valery Gergiev Face National Issues 2014-04-03T12:00:01Z

The group kicks off its classical season Oct. Detroit Lures Lang Lang for Concert, Webcast 2013-09-06T19:15:54Z

Mr. Blavatnik said in a statement that “acknowledging and helping outstanding young artists early in their careers is essential to the ongoing vibrancy of the classical world.” Violinist Wins Fought-Over Warner Music Prize 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

She shows, as every classical ballerina must, that the eyes are the mirror of the soul. The Sleeping Beauty/English National Ballet – review 2012-12-09T00:06:03Z

The seeming goal is to return to classical virtues and symbols, tempered by a modern woman’s sensibility. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

The pandemic has served to deepen concerns about the viability of global tours, which have long been considered an essential but expensive part of the classical music ecosystem. Concert Halls Are Back. But Visa Backlogs Are Keeping Musicians Out. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

“A lot of the classical music that we pride ourselves on today is inspired by Black artists, Black musicians and Black composers. But we don’t hear that side of the story.” A European Music Festival’s Push for Diversity Stirs Debate 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

“They are all looking to China for the survival — the only hope for growth — for all classical music, frankly,” said Shirley Young, chairwoman of the US-China Cultural Institute. East Is East, and West Is West, but the Twain Are Now Meeting in Opera 2010-12-31T23:22:09Z

Your centennial falls at a time when we desperately need heroes in our struggling classical music world. Review | Six concerts in search of a composer: D.C. fetes Bernstein centennial 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

Despite its presence in ancient and classical literature, travel had rarely if ever been central, certainly not personal travel. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z

Painters such as Barry, or another founding academician Benjamin West, commanded admiration for huge, morally elevating canvases depicting clinching episodes of classical or biblical narrative. The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles 2013-01-04T22:55:14Z

Dan and I started in classical music, but we loved hip-hop. Deltron 3030 is three minds, ten years and finally, a sequel 2013-10-17T13:52:00Z

"I'm not an aficionado of these things, but it seems like the real deal," Ms. Mortimer said of the setting: booming classical music, a drawn-on tile runway and giant mirrors. On the Runway Blog: Fashion Week Stargazing: Day 2 2012-09-08T15:31:15Z

“The generation coming up now in classical music are frustrated by the isolation of classical music and a lot have grown up playing other genres of music as well,” Mr. Prokofiev said. Bringing Classical Music to the Club Scene 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

And she's hovered around the peaks of the classical music world ever since. Hilary Hahn and Hauschka share Icelandic adventure on new disc, at the Neptune 2012-05-25T22:13:12Z

But she was being honest: An outlier in classical music, at 36 she would rather dedicate time to her own interests and her growing family than be tied to an orchestra. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

And because of how Buck became famous — dancing to classical music, collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma and ballet companies — many of those people might have misconceptions about the dance. Review: From Lil Buck, History and a Chance to Flash Some Brilliance 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

The surprise vote in Britain to leave the European Union promises to complicate life in classical music, one of the most international of art forms. Simon Rattle: The Maestro With the Busy Baton 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

What about “classical crossover” — a genre that’s perched between classical and pop music, which some people say vulgarizes or dumbs down classical music? Ludovico Einaudi: A Classical Artist for the YouTube Age 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Arikha's bright tones and crisp lines inevitably invite comparison with classical and academic painting, in which he developed a strong historical interest. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z

The list of music to be published includes more than 300 songs, 100 chamber music pieces, 50 orchestral works and other pieces, in genres including classical, opera, jazz and film music. Music Thwarted by the Holocaust Will Now Be Published 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Days and evenings poring over spinning vinyl, and tape-recording the classical repertoire, were the beginnings of a career that has made Paul Lewis the most illustrious and talented British-born pianist for generations. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

Julia Bullock, a radiant young soprano, is part of a tiny group of singers able to be persuasive in both classical and popular styles. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

“Françoise wanted that part to be in a style that was more undefined,” Mr. Poirier said, “neither classical nor contemporary” as a way to evoke timelessness. ‘Everyone Danced in France’: A Baroque Bourrée Comes to BAM 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Craig is known for collaborating with jazz and classical musicians, influences that have percolated back into his own work even when he’s performing solo as he will be on Friday night. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

One of their scholarship programs, the Willie L. Brown Jr. Music Scholarship for Boys, showed me the true power of music to change lives, and cemented my desire to continue in the classical music field. Your First Crush 2013-07-17T16:03:16Z

It was one of those only-in-New-York nights, gathering enough musicians to headline several galas in celebration of a beloved figure in the classical music world. Piano Stars Gather for a Legend’s 90th 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

In “Same Stare, Different Thought,” almost icy, almost classical, there’s no bass or drums at all; after that piece comes “Home,” with the album’s deepest melodies and most soulful performances. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-14T23:38:13Z

There’s little irony in it, just straight-up classical lyrical brilliance powerful enough to draw you into an alien mind and time. ArtsBeat: The Mostly Good Old Days: Boris Kachka Talks About ‘Hothouse’ 2013-07-31T16:34:41Z

That's clear from the way she demonstrates a series of classical ballet positions, then gives the Spanish version of them. Sara de Luis garnishes Seattle Opera's 'Don Quixote' with classic Spanish dance 2011-02-18T22:03:30Z

There is nothing more boring than a classical enthusiast, and much the same goes for similar bores in folk song and dance and jazz, birdwatching, golf etc. Letters: Age, intelligence and musical taste 2012-07-17T20:00:05Z

After that, I started receiving my first invitations to do concerts – mostly classical, accompanied by symphony orchestras, string quartets or, sometimes, just a piano. Experience: I’m a world-class whistler 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Even though around 20% of the UK's contemporary classical composers are female, this is not reflected at the Proms or at any other major concert series or festival. Why are there so few women behind the music? 2010-05-24T15:42:00Z

A post on first-dance songs elicited pages of suggestions ranging from classical to punk. Seattle author Ariel Meadow Stallings offers tips for offbeat weddings 2010-04-07T23:56:00Z

And jazz pianist Chick Corea has four nominations this year in the jazz, Latin jazz and classical categories. Grammy facts: Blurred genre lines and a retiree revolution 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

This is not the time to assess why stable financing could not be secured; things are hard throughout the classical music world these days. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z

She was also criticized for saying that Black families needed to do more to support their children’s classical music studies in emails to colleagues about efforts to increase diversity at the Baltimore Symphony. Baltimore Symphony Fires Flutist Who Shared Covid Conspiracy Theories 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

I was always gonna be into heavy metal and I was always gonna be into classical music and art and Caravaggio and all these things. "The Ugly Cry" reveals the pain and humor of growing up "Black and weird" 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Fleeing Music, but Finding It Everywhere BOLZANO, Italy — On the classical music beat, I get to travel around the world to newsworthy premieres and performances: a great privilege. Critic’s Notebook: Exploring Bavaria and the Busoni International Piano Festival 2012-09-07T23:47:51Z

The third president was a lover of classical architecture and design, and his influence is seen in Washington’s stately public buildings and in neoclassical details such as columns, moldings, red brick and formal gardens. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Why not?” he said, though he admitted that while he listens to many types of music — Prince, classical, Latin music, the Colombian singer and songwriter Maluma — he is “not a big rap person.” Christian Louboutin on Cardi B and His ‘Red Bottoms’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

This week's show is devoted to an extended interview with Steve Reich – the rebel who changed classical music forever. Music Weekly podcast: Steve Reich 2011-08-12T17:26:00Z

In the streaming era, fans of classical music have had reason to grumble. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

In the 1780s, he eradicated the lightness and joy of the Rococo in stern history paintings drawn from classical examples. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

He is the president of the board of the Resident Acting Company, a classical resident theater company in Manhattan. Ana Buling, Jack Peterson-Daily 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Read more listings for art, classical music, film, pop music, television and theater. 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Both Coppola and Schwartzman, who are cousins, have classical music in their veins. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Trained as a classical painter, Hassani eventually segued to contemporary mural art. Afghan woman risks all to bring color to war-torn Kabul with her street art and feminist murals 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

His classical erudition can be too much with him. A Father and Son Sail Through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ Together 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

How did she get into pop from the classical world? Why we're watching… Rachel Zeffira 2012-12-09T10:07:03Z

Both also prove that Adams’s sense of humor is intact and that classical music in the 21st century can be an awful lot of fun. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

From childhood, he was a good amateur pianist who delighted in the classical repertory and in ragtime. Ronald Broun, lawyer and Washington Post classical music critic, dies at 75 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

“I have never identified as Asian or American, boy or girl, classical or pop,” he said. Hahn-Bin Straddles Classical Music and Fashion 2011-02-23T21:15:40Z

Instead, the Moog enables the guitarist to sustain tones or alter their color and shape through the fingertips, much as a classical guitarist does – but with considerably more voltage. Switched-on guitar: Fareed Haque meets the Moog 2011-01-24T14:43:52Z

The Times’ Jessica Gelt spent some quality time with students participating in Symphonies for Schools, a weeklong outreach program that introduces young people to classical music. Essential Arts & Culture: Parsing Measure S, 'Fun Home' inspires genuflection, SCI-Arc goes to Mexico 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

We look forward to reading about your classical music inspirations. ArtsBeat: What inspired you to work in classical music? 2013-07-12T16:09:05Z

A consistently excellent and broadly appealing violinist, Mr. Bell is one of the few reliable marquee names in classical music today. Music Review: An Exuberant Conductor and a Starry Violinist 2011-08-07T21:48:50Z

Ms. Lopez Ochoa, who grew up in Belgium with a Colombian father and a Belgian mother, said that she’d heard of contemporary dance productions about Kahlo, but never a classical ballet. Frida Kahlo Could Barely Walk. In This Ballet, She Dances. 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

All the time they sing, in a beautiful drone which reminds me both of a bagpipe sound and of Pakistani classical music. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

But “Hara-Kiri” finds this busy genre omnivore in a quiet, even classical frame of mind. Movie Review: ‘Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai’ at IFC Center 2012-07-19T21:18:21Z

For Matías Tarnopolsky, the president and chief executive of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the new “Vespers” are an example of the role that classical music can play in society. John Luther Adams, Praying for the Earth in Music 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

The critic Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that the “tendency to associate classical music with murderous insanity is a curious neurosis of the American pop-cultural psyche.” Opera in Film Takes On a New Note in ‘Bel Canto’ (It’s Not Evil) 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

The band – created by the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago – is back with its next program, "Black Prism," the program encompassing jazz, classical and other idioms. Auctioning Chicago history: DJ Dick Buckley's collection 2011-02-14T14:51:00Z

The combination was an attempt to fit a commercial program into the classical, civic setting of Logan Square. Eugene Kohn, Architect of Skyscraping Ambitions, Dies at 92 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

It's a tantalising thought, what Sedaka would have become in the classical world if that Moscow experience had worked out differently. Neil Sedaka: 'My great love is classical music' 2012-10-12T16:47:00Z

With her strong background in classical studies and languages, Carson is known for combining poetry, translation, prose and even script-writing into her works. Asturias award honors Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

“There were no classical radio stations on the island when I was a little girl,” she said. From Easter Island, a Pianist Emerges 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

It was a little jazzier, not as classical as the Russian technique I’d learned in California.” A Full-Circle Mentor Moment 2011-01-23T02:30:15Z

His music has occasionally been played on predominately classical series like the Composer Portraits at the Miller Theater at Columbia University, but he is usually perceived as a jazz artist, full stop. ‘Mastery and Transgression’ in Music That Bridges Genres 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Designed to fit the  space of a classical music concert interval, it is a beautifully slight and often intensely clever interlude of thoughts. Radio review: Twenty Minutes ? Stravinsky and the King's Horse 2011-07-19T19:30:01Z

Collaborations outside of classical music are central to their mission. Seattle trapeze artists team up with live orchestra for what may be a first-of-its-kind performance 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

The Public Lab production of this borderline ludicrous but sometimes, um, delicious play, directed by Michael Sexton, adorns the opening in a little apt classical allusion. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z

A door from the living room leads to the master suite, the bedroom of which is a study in contrasts: hard lines and gentle curves, classical serenity and playful fancy. Ricky Carmichael 2010-09-01T04:00:00Z

When Mr. Hall’s “Twelfth Night” is good — for most of the first act — your admiration is renewed for the classical virtues he has always espoused and a company eager to do them justice. Theater Review: Peter Hall Makes a Dusky Return to Illyria 2011-01-25T12:00:03Z

A biography worthy of classical music’s most idiosyncratic pianist. Review | You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

And in “Succession,” he evokes a classical music tradition in which a composer doodles at the piano to improvise on a theme, putting it through permutations based on mood and form. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

"It's more narrative, which puts me in a good setting for Ten Plagues, getting away from the verse-chorus-middle-eight of the classical pop song." Marc Almond: From bedsit to plague pit 2011-07-18T20:31:01Z

The concert, which includes classical Cuban music, modern American pop songs reinvented with a Latin twist and original compositions, is dedicated to the Orlando shooting victims. Gay Men's Chorus of L.A. to sing with Cuban counterpart Mano a Mano; show dedicated to Orlando victims 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

It is a crucial quest for many venerable institutions, particularly those presenting classical art forms. New York City Ballet Applies a Surreal Touch to Build Audiences 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Three times each season a superb lineup of Seattle Symphony musicians assembles in Benaroya’s recital hall to explore small-scale works by classical music’s Big Names. A&E highlights: Jazz, whales and the Spring Fair in Puyallup 2013-04-10T18:17:53Z

The orchestra is regarded as one of the UK's flagship orchestras and its principal conductor is one of the most high-profile roles in classical music. Conductor Simon Rattle to lead LSO 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

That’s because those Commandments, like much of the classical music experience, are tacitly predicated on the idea that our music, our art form, and therefore our way of thinking, is superior to yours. How (not) to behave: Manners and the classical music audience 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

It isn’t surprising that Mr. Armstrong’s admirers equate his work with classical portraiture. Up Close: Interview With David Armstrong, Photographer 2011-08-30T22:50:33Z

Because they are working there, they are giving their life for that hall and they love classical music. Dudamel abides 2010-09-16T21:00:00Z

He was considered instrumental in developing the Cuban style of ballet, which seeks to imbue classical rigor with the physicality of Latin dance. Fernando Alonso, a Founder of Cuban Ballet, Dies at 98 2013-08-03T01:42:20Z

Kurt is not a classical trained singer, and his vocal performance was not as polished as many of the others. Review: ‘La Cage aux Folles’ Brightens Up Berlin 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

“The appeal begins the instant she proudly strides on stage, prepared for action,” writes Times classical music critic Mark Swed. Essential Arts & Culture: DNC set design, L.A.'s public art biennial, a ballet star in 'A Chorus Line' 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

Even in the persistently backward-looking classical music realm, there has been a sense of fresh beginnings, of the extension of earlier ventures toward the new and untried. Review: Chamber Music Society Returns, Unchanged 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

But he does hope to expand it, he said, to include more French Romantic works, Dutch composers and contemporary classical and composers from the Second Viennese School, including Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. Daniele Gatti, Creative Risk-Taker, Picks Up Baton at Royal Concertgebouw 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

“Bluegrass was traditionally a male genre, but now you hear banjo in classical, pop, country rock, everywhere,” she said. COUNTRY TIMES: Banjo is cool again 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

She marvelously leads the role from chivalrous Romantic mystery to brightly classical celebration. Review: Balanchine Jewels from Paris, Moscow and New York 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Her melodies reach back to the hearty simplicity of folk songs; she uses the modes of Arabic classical music, but at times her improvisations also hint at raga, Japanese music and Tibetan overtone singing. Music Review: Ghalia Benali at French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-16T21:42:33Z

Yet a classical singer with restraint and taste can put a pop song in a revealing new context. music: Ren?e Fleming?s Crossover to Rock, ?Dark Hope? 2010-05-28T14:47:00Z

As a classical independent Bridge will never be an industry titan, but the Starobins say that some of their discs have sold more than 125,000 copies, a respectable total by classical standards. Bridge Records Holds Onto Its Niche, With a Very Firm Grip 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z

Mine is fully classical; it’s more classical structurally and compositionally than a lot of classical ballets. A Word With: Mark Morris: Cracking Open A Holiday Classic 2010-12-02T22:55:00Z

With Mozart and Beethoven you knew where you were, but Schubert, neither completely classical nor openly Romantic, slithered elusively out of my grasp. Schubert: lieder of the pack 2011-03-10T22:43:00Z

It is a lot of symphonic and classical with very hip rock and modern sounds with a lot of percussions. The Creator of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Is Back with a New Show 2013-10-08T09:45:13Z

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb set the table for irony, opening with serene classical music under images of nuclear fighter pilots. Why Netflix's 'skip intro' feature is bad news for classic films 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Pop divas vie for airspace with classical pianists, hip-hop artists and underground rock bands. China in your hand: the lowdown on Chinese pop 2012-12-25T22:20:21Z

The series was one of the last momentous classical music events in New York before everything stopped in mid-March. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

The Polar Music Prize is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician. Morricone, Bjork share Sweden's Polar Music Prize 2010-05-17T08:00:00Z

“If I’m coming to play a sonata, they’ll call me a classical cellist,” he said. Abel Selaocoe Finds a Home in Improvisation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Reviews, be they of television or classical music, are not as widely read as other kinds of article by the same authors: opinion pieces, reported features or news items. Perspective | Why we didn’t review ‘The Barber of Seville’ and other concerts 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

She's a graduate of Birmingham's Conservatoire, and her classical training means the music she is making has more in common with baroque pop than retro-soul. SXSW 2013: The British are coming! 2013-03-12T12:36:00Z

“We try to make a revolution, not only with cello playing but also classical music,” said Mr. Sulic, 28, who holds a master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Music, in London. Classical Crossover for the Win 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Why is it that those who go to pop, rock, or country music expect to hear newly composed music, but classical music concertgoers often stay away from anything not tried-and-true? British flag flies high at Seattle Symphony 2011-11-18T18:22:03Z

It’s the most popular and enduring myth in classical music. Perspective | ‘More like a festival’: How classical competitions are reinventing themselves 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

The concerto seems an attempt to balance the advanced chromatic language of Wagner with Brahms’s feeling for classical structure. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Then he began classical studies at the University of Zurich and as a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Robert Hecht, Antiquities Dealer, Dies at 92 2012-02-10T04:21:17Z

In the United States there has been a popular belief that Asian people are ruthless competitors obsessed with technical achievement, whether as classical pianists, spelling bee champs or math whizzes. Stop calling Asians "robotic" please 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

The Bayreuth Festival in Germany is one of the most venerable events in classical music. After 145 Years, Bayreuth Festival Has Its First Female Conductor 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Unlike classical music groups in the U.S., the Berlin Philharmonic allows its musicians to vote for its top conductor. Berlin Philharmonic names Kirill Petrenko as new chief conductor 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Gilbert asks: I’m very open when it comes to my lack of knowledge about classical music and opera. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

A few years ago, he and his wife, the classical music publicist Elizabeth Bowman, were living in a small apartment in Washington Heights with their daughter. Opera Has Vanished. So Have Their Dream Jobs at the Met. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

The Khmer Rouge executed an estimated 90 percent of Cambodia’s classical dancers, but for Cambodians, the tradition was far too precious to lose. Looking Ahead: Culture Picks for 2013 2012-12-27T23:05:33Z

Set in England’s Lake District, a remote corner of craggy fells and freshwater pools, “The A Word” puts a modern spin on classical family dysfunction. ‘The A Word’ Places Autism Front and Center 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

And he lamented the lack of classical repertory theaters that abounded through the Britain he knew when he was growing up in Warwickshire. What’s in a List? Two Critics on Theater’s Special Relationship 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Have you ever pulled out a classical piece during a game? At Nationals Park in Washington, Van Hoose hits all the right notes 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

While many American classical critics have sought to emulate Thomson, Joshua Kosman, of the San Francisco Chronicle, recently ventured the contrary opinion that Thomson was “a virtual paragon of how not to practice music criticism.” Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Two weeks later they arranged for a first date, in Columbus, where they went to an Indian classical music concert, followed by dinner at a restaurant. Something Clicked and a Long-Distance Romance Blossoms 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

Though classical music is diversifying, it’s hard to think of another singer who lists break dancing awards alongside concert prizes on their résumé. He Break Dances. He Pole Dances. He Sings Like an Angel. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Video also allows her to connect with her audience in a way that more traditional classical artists don’t often do. With help from dramatic YouTube videos, Sequim-based Jennifer Thomas makes the Billboard charts 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

George Loomis is a musicologist and freelance classical music writer and critic. An Italian Festival Presents Verdi on His Own Turf 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Dworkin was there helping to run a competition for young artists started by the Sphinx Organization, a newly founded group devoted to fostering diversity in classical music. They Were Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

When I approach contemporary composers to write for the classical mandolin, this is what I have in mind. In his Hollywood Bowl debut, Avi Avital aims to reshape the sound of classical music 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

They retreated to traditional forms and looked back to an imagined classical past — ancient Greece, the Italian Renaissance — for images of wholeness and harmony. Art Review: When the Artists Voted for the Politics of Order 2010-10-10T21:37:00Z

There’s nothing wrong with filmmaking that obeys the classical Hollywood rules of aesthetic legibility, linear narrative sense and a relatable emotional journey. Perspective | In praise of the messy, misunderstood masterpiece (and in search of the next one) 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

Just a dozen tables fill the octagon-shaped restaurant, and the menu features both classical and eclectic French cuisine. Overnighter: North of Berlin, a Quiet Land of Lakes 2013-05-23T22:59:37Z

The play’s themes — a classical riff on no justice, no peace, a reckoning with the human impact on the environment — should reverberate. Review: In ‘Snow in Midsummer,’ It’s Not Just the Forecast That’s Amiss 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Both are classical, the chef’s fingerprints visible only in details like the mouthwatering sea buckthorn jam and unaccountably exciting potato salad with the schnitzel. Restaurant Review: Bâtard in TriBeCa 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Schwartzman speaks inescapably like himself; he’s among the most classical of contemporary movie actors in this regard, in that he is, irreducibly and unalterably, always himself. The Actor as Intellectual Artist in “Listen Up Philip” 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dibble, a former dancer with the Royal Ballet, is a wonderfully refined classical technician. Theater Review: Dancing to Twyla Tharp and Sinatra?s Music 2010-03-26T04:27:00Z

But I always just felt like an impostor, which is not an uncommon way to feel in classical music. After Two Hit Operas, a Composer Takes on the Bleak Prairie 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

One classical tune that can work is something like an organ version of the “William Tell Overture” during a rally segment. At Nationals Park in Washington, Van Hoose hits all the right notes 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Somewhere along the line, Stephen Spinella, forever to be remembered for his Tony-winning portrayal of Prior Walter in “Angels in America,” became one of the country’s most versatile classical actors. Shakespeare's 'Love's Labor's Lost': Kathleen Marshall directs a winner at the Old Globe 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Poet Anne Carson studied classical languages but is at the forefront of her field, constantly challenging form. Fall literary preview: 6 terrific L.A. events 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

When Chiang Mai’s Woranan School of Music, with classes in jazz, pop, blues, rock and classical music, was founded five years ago, 10 students enrolled; now it has more than 150. Heads Up: In Chiang Mai, Thailand, New Sounds in the Clubs 2010-07-16T19:48:00Z

Calling their group Black Violin, the men are former classical viola majors, and in their last appearance at the New Victory Theater, they combined hipness and wholesomeness. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 9-15 2012-11-08T23:27:07Z

For these reasons, the administration's mandate for classical architecture constrains architecture's ability to innovate and tackle real world problems. Why so many architects are angered by "Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again" 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

It’s a fitting analogy for the present economic moment: a classical temple rebuilt from refuse atop a precarious structure. | Hany Armanious 2010-12-06T16:55:00Z

Hazel was steady and careful in her work, resulting in excellent classical LP cuts, whose sound quality was praised within the industry and has been hard to match. Hazel Yarwood obituary 2013-06-11T09:26:05Z

If Big Ears were a series of concentric circles, music informed by the classical tradition would sit at the center, its lessons and suggestions radiating outward. Big Ears Festival Resists Commercial and Genre Constraints 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

But these were among the qualities that turned Monk into one of the great jazz composers, whose rigorously beautiful, remorselessly pared-down themes are nowadays reinterpreted by both jazz and classical artists. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z

In the world of classical music truer words were never spoken. A Conductor Whose Worship Stands Apart 2010-02-19T16:42:00Z

Could this lovely but often self-absorbed soloist become an exemplar of classical style? Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Without drawing a direct comparison to that moment and that legend, let’s just say that Barkman is similarly dark-eyed and petite, with a clean, classical line to her body. Review | The Washington Ballet awakens with a lavish, triumphant ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

I'd always had a problem with classical music being a minority thing. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z

It’s in these formal elements that you see distinct echoes of classical 1970s feminist art. Art Review: Works by Rachel Kneebone at the Brooklyn Museum 2012-04-05T22:06:34Z

Amy O'Neal will do an excerpt from an upcoming work with a very long title, slicing and dicing classical dance and hip-hop. Bumbershoot picks: eclectic, experimental dance and classical music 2012-08-30T19:18:04Z

Given the depth and wealth of St. Petersburg’s cultural heritage, it was high time for “its contemporary component to become as valuable and elaborated as its classical one,” said Mikhail Ovchinnikov, the museum’s director. Scene/Seen: Nouveau Hip Art Meets Feisty Grunge in St. Petersburg 2011-04-08T13:29:04Z

In a statement, the 34-year-old conductor said the orchestra enjoys "an unparalleled situation in the world of classical music today: great musicians, a strong community base." Gustavo Dudamel and L.A. Philharmonic agree to contract extension 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The last stretch of the music was marginally more conventional, with rushes of cymbals and hovering, Penderecki-like classical choirs. Music Review: Music With Texture, Shaking the Auditorium 2011-04-11T21:52:15Z

Optional excursions include behind-the-scenes tours of the Hermitage museum and a classical ballet performance in St. Petersburg. The Cruise Issue: New Options: 14 New Cruises for 2011 2011-02-11T20:13:12Z

In it, a “classical” couple is pitted against a “modern” pair, then they change partners, and the ballerina dances a long fluid pas de deux with the faunlike modern-dance man. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

Sasami’s background is in classical music, but while in isolation she educated herself on Black cultural appropriation, learning about topics like the blues and minstrelsy. Sasami Wanted to Appropriate White, Male Music. She Landed on Metal. 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

This Princeton professor is our leading authority on classical and humanist scholarship in early modern Europe. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

To optimise your choice of classical music for exercise, it is important to think of the energy that will be expended during different segments of a workout. Why you should consider adding classical music to your exercise playlist 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Remarkable as a musical feat, “Alone Together” also provides a much-needed vision of the classical industry. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

“For a classical composer, doing an opera is a big thing,” Mr. Zorn said as he left the museum. To Get to City Opera, Mr. Downtown Practiced Eclecticism 2011-03-18T23:21:12Z

In his early 20s, he founded a theater company in Melbourne, the Hayloft Project, and began directing classical plays, rewriting scenes that felt stodgy, outdated. Simon Stone Faced the Unthinkable. He Thinks You Should Too. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

While there are about 70 dance ensembles in Germany, not all of them are so exclusively focused on classical dance like most of the companies in eastern Europe, but often practice modern dance too. Ukrainian, Russian refugee dancers find help in Berlin 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

I don’t buy that classical music corners the market on feelings or emotions. Perspective | A beginner’s guide to enjoying classic music. No snobs allowed 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

And Hervé Boissière, the founder of Medici.tv, said that the streams would allow music lovers to realize the dream of attending a concert at Carnegie, which he called “the hall of fame of classical music.” Carnegie Hall to Offer Free Live Webcasts of Four Concerts 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The other sections — biography, autobiography, theater, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, classical literature, literary criticism, art, photography, books by friends — are not alphabetized. ‘Why Have a Large Library and Not Use It?’ Janet Malcolm: By the Book 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Imagine a classical double bass, but more aggressive and dynamic. From goat's testicles to the waterphone: cinema's unlikely soundtracks 2013-05-10T06:00:00Z

His long, distinguished stewardship ends at the conclusion of next season, in a tenure that years ago affirmed his status as one of the nation’s most devoted, and therefore substantial, keepers of the classical flame. Review | Kahn’s final ‘Hamlet’ at Shakespeare Theatre is off-key 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Parreno regularly collaborates with experts and artists, including classical musicians, sand sculptors, virtual-reality visionaries, and masters of illusion, from mimics to magicians. An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

It was the beginning of Mr. Coleman’s public career in classical music, a much more dissonant and self-consciously European-modernist body of work. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

She, too, grew up in an environment geared to classical French furniture, her father’s specialty. Showcasing Modern Masters 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z

Her mandate was to revitalize the Y’s musical offerings, both classical and popular, while nurturing the health of its successful Unterberg Poetry Center. Famed Ghosts And Their Diligent Keeper 2011-01-30T02:30:04Z

With a program combining traditional classical and Arabic music, the orchestra played dates in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. From checkpoint to counterpoint: on tour with the Palestine Youth... 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Only 14 guests are allowed to attend, but the ceremony includes an aisle runner, red silk rose petals, LED lighting and classical music, the website says. NYC's new Vegas-style wedding chapel offers coronavirus-safe ceremonies 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

In the end, it occasioned a wish for freer movement across classical music’s historical and institutional borders. Review | The National Philharmonic presents and proposes music of black composers 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

“First, there is a lot of classical technique in there, particularly in the interplay between the right and left hands,” she said by email. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Nun With a Musical Gift, Dies at 99 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

Though Dr. Broyles does not say so, World War II essentially shattered the notion of classical music as inherently moral. Books of The Times: ?Beethoven in America,? by Michael Broyles - Review 2011-12-18T22:36:08Z

To anyone who still assumes that “classical” in dance must mean ballet, this is the season that I would recommend as a corrective. Looking Ahead: Time to Turn the Page 2010-12-30T23:28:26Z

Recent theater and classical music videos in the In Performance series are here. In Performance: Tony Award Winners 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Many performers come from a training background in Broadway-style theater or classical dance, as well as more specialized performance styles like circus arts and acrobatics. Seattle Boylesque Festival returns in full to the Triple Door 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

In a classical music industry that encourages performers to be either/or, Selaocoe has chosen both — and more. Abel Selaocoe Finds a Home in Improvisation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

I came from a house without any classical music. Corinne Bailey Rae, Sir Mark Elder and other musicians' greatest on-stage moments 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z

But for all the communal energy of live classical performances, they are fundamentally solitary events; shushing is still common, and to be honest, I do my fair share. When Opera Entered the Chat 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Among the marvels of most forms of Indian classical dance is the way in which a single dancer slips from emotion to emotion, from character to character. Indian Dance and Music at the Drive East Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The production won a South Bank Sky Arts award, and the prize for best classical choreography at the National Dance awards. Sexism in dance: where are all the female choreographers? 2013-04-28T08:00:33Z

Its first concert series, Soundtrack of America, will celebrate not the European classical sphere but the heritage of African-American music across a broad historical and stylistic spectrum, from spirituals to hip-hop. The Shed Opens With a Purpose. And a Party. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Preserving and, where necessary, restoring knowledge of those arts — among them classical poetry and calligraphy — would become a vital concern of his after he moved to the United States in 1949. Edgard Varèse’s Protégé Chou Wen-chung, Going Strong at 91 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

He has a keen understanding of the requisite theaters of operation: the classical Hollywood studio system, the motion picture units of the branches of the armed forces, and the battlegrounds of Europe and the Pacific. Books of The Times: Mark Harris’s ‘Five Came Back’ Covers Auteurs in Combat 2014-03-02T23:09:53Z

The attempt to please the classical music world only intensified as he got older. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Uneducated in the traditional sense, Lincoln nonetheless was educated in the classical sense. Abraham Lincoln's early life is recast by Sidney Blumenthal in the masterful 'Wrestling With His Angel' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

The final scherzo movement sees the classical man set upon rather amusingly by the modern woman. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

It is also the case that some concerted mission rethinking is overdue for classical theaters of Shakespeare Theatre’s caliber. Perspective | A theater highlight for D.C.: James Baldwin’s rarely seen ‘Amen Corner’ 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Tines’s artistic process may be a personal one, but it is already reverberating through at least one of classical music’s hallowed halls. Review: Davóne Tines Hones the Recital Form to a Fine Point 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

The steps were a mix of disco and classical ballet. Karole Armitage’s artist collaborations are revisited at New Jersey’s Mana Contemporary 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

“I was playing classical concerts all around the country with a lot of different orchestras,” he said. Jazzed up about music education, Marsalis comes to Castleton 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Comparing classical subscription programs of six major American orchestras from the early 1920s through 2001, he showed how light classics had nearly disappeared by 1960. What’s Lost When Pops Orchestras Tap Pop Culture 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

I admired the way she had a certain classical sound but also moved easily from traditional forms to free verse. Natasha Trethewey Is Named Poet Laureate 2012-06-07T02:03:39Z

Ben Jonson's vaunting 1616 collection of his works directs the reader's attention towards classical allusion rather than roistering theatricality; Shaw's dialogue famously has to wriggle past screeds of argumentative stage direction. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z

The second half started with the premiere of Mr. Jacobsen’s “Three Miniatures for String Quartet,” vivacious, deftly drawn sketches that evoke the microtonal keening and metrical complexity of Persian classical music. Music Review: Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert - Review 2011-12-19T23:04:37Z

“We have a tremendous challenge but also an opportunity to reassess what we’re doing,” said Michelle Witt, executive director of the Meany Center, which presents classical music as part of a larger arts repertoire. Seattle classical-music, opera groups shake off dust to capture new audiences 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, that is an entirely ignorant and unfounded observation, given how radically the experience of what is now called “classical music” has changed over the centuries. Hand over your cellphone, and obey the gong. Marina Abramovic reinvents Bach. 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Yet, the four classical elements are one of civilization’s great unifiers, a cosmological theory shared by the Hindu Vedas, the Buddhist Mahabhuta, the Kongo cosmogram, the Indigenous medicine wheel and the zodiac. ‘Elemental’ Review: Sparks Fly 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

But she moved from her early loves — Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday and Judy Collins — to the classical repertoire near the end of high school. Finding the music in Beckett, the drama in Schubert: Let the L.A. Phil's experiment begin 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

And the classical music world is watching to see what comes next. Review: After 55 Years, the Helsinki Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

A wonderful gig sees the once archetypal indie cool band unexpectedly become all-round entertainers, as classical pop nestles alongside comedy, theatre and audience participation. Belle and Sebastian and London Contemporary Orchestra ? review 2010-12-06T21:29:00Z

One of the reasons Vice's reviews are so refreshing is that they dare to suggest that some classical releases don't have a lot going for them. Want to read some of the best classical CD reviews around? Try Vice magazine 2010-12-07T16:03:00Z

But, even beyond Simone’s lyrics, her integrative technique itself—her use of gospel piano, blues melisma, classical riffs—refutes myths of black deprivation. Toni Morrison and Nina Simone, United in Soul 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

About a decade into the podcast boom, I’m continuously surprised there aren’t more shows about classical music. A Luminous ‘Aria Code’ Joins a Meager Field of Classical Music Podcasts 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

Fry even goes so far as to defend the perceived difficulty of classical music, calling it "a lifetime's exciting thing". Doomed? 2011-05-12T12:33:19Z

Photograph: Paul Mello/AP When the end of the 20th century came, some aspects of jazz began to be given the status of a classical form. 2012 review: notable deaths in music 2012-12-24T09:00:08Z

Fittingly, the artist who devoted the final years of his career to measuring, cataloging, preserving and mapping Roman antiquities, was laid to rest in the greatest classical structure to survive the ages: the Pantheon. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Abram considers “Behold! New Lebanon” a museum in the classical sense — “a place of the Muses.” ‘Behold! New Lebanon’ Offers Rural Tourism 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

And it’s propelled this 42-year-old to the front ranks of classical music. Review | Whistles, rumbles, bleeps: New Icelandic music sounds like no string quartet you’ve ever heard 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Shivalingappa, a native of Chennai who was raised in Paris, is a specialist in Kuchipudi, a classical dance form of South India rarely performed here. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa at Skirball Center at N.Y.U. - Review 2011-10-31T21:26:55Z

He seeks, through close attention to classical works on beauty, optics, alchemy and dreaming, to explain the Muslim "way of seeing". Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art, Perception and Practice in Islam by Jamal J Elias - review 2012-12-27T07:00:01Z

For the most part, classical ballet deals with myth and legends, while its neoclassical heirs prefer abstractions and hypotheticals. The Jerome Robbins revolution: He found his angels on the Manhattan streets 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Harris goes deep into the roots of street dance, often combining hip-hop with more classical dance forms. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 11-17 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

“It’s a phenomenal chance for us to promote classical music,” says the conductor, Christopher Warren-Green, one of the event’s conductors. Perspective | Can Meghan and Harry make you care about Handel? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

But until Mr. Lamar, it had still barely budged outside of its old classical music limits. A Year After Kendrick Lamar, Will the Music Pulitzer Embrace Pop? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The renovation of the New York Philharmonic’s Lincoln Center home, David Geffen Hall, is the classical music equivalent of the Second Avenue subway. Philharmonic’s Geffen Hall Plans Continue in Fits and Starts 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

But his debt to Ivanov remained consistently evident in dancing that made the historical switch from classical to neoclassical an exciting juxtaposition of styles. The archaeology of dance: American Contemporary Ballet digs back to 1890 with revelatory results 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the line between the competition and other classical music organizations is increasingly blurred. Perspective | ‘More like a festival’: How classical competitions are reinventing themselves 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Whipping across the stage, the bare-chested Mr. Huxley, a scrupulous classical dancer, moved bigger and broader than ever. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Stirs Memories of Tanaquil le Clercq 2014-02-23T21:54:52Z

Before this Tennessee city was the country-music capital, it had a classical bent—as in, ancient Greece. These Are America's Quirkiest Cities 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Inspired by the classical and Renaissance buildings of Rome, he was seeking an architecture with more of a human touch. Michael Graves, innovative architect and designer, dies at 80 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

Like others in his profession, he had grown frustrated with classical economic models that assumed that humans were rational actors who always sought to maximise their individual gains. Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world? 2011-08-20T23:08:00Z

The title of Mike Cloud’s Greater Reston Arts Center show, “Figure Studies,” invokes a technique from classical painting. In the galleries: The fleeting beauty of birds, making their final flights 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

At the same time, he hasn’t exhausted the possibilities of classical vocabulary; like Balanchine, he instills steps with a crisp and sweeping musicality. At City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky Can Let His Imagination Run Wild 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

We started going to see Ivan perform," says Tennant, "and we became very curious as to why classical ballet had remained so traditional in the way it looks. De Frutos and Pet Shop Boys reach for the moon 2011-03-09T21:29:01Z

“Many musical innovations have been made in hip-hop music that can bring new energy, sounds and rhythm to the classical world.” Pop culture remix: Key moments in ‘Baby Got Back’ history 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Tateuchi Center plans to host touring Broadway shows, jazz and classical musicians, dance groups and cultural performances, as well as some Seattle- and Eastside-based groups. $25 million gift boosts fundraising for Bellevue performing-arts venue 2010-06-09T06:56:00Z

Here there is just Picasso, stripped down and essentialized, his classical lines and radical sense of painting as sculpture both heightened by the restricted palette. Art Review: ‘Picasso Black and White’ at the Guggenheim Museum 2012-10-04T20:56:12Z

The opera is structured like a classical symphony, with a sonata-form opening movement, a scherzo, an adagio and a passacaglia finale.  Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Led by Christoph von Dohnanyi 2012-03-23T22:47:08Z

Brutal Ballet are a classical ballet company with a twist. Metal ballet meets Games of Thrones 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

So why has this iconic instrument found it so hard to nail its star into the classical firmament? Classical Saxophone in Proms spotlight 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Where classical theater is concerned, “It’s like what they say about the bus — if you miss one, there’s another one coming around the corner,” said Scott Mallalieu, president of the group sales site GreatWhiteWay.com. Saturation of Shakespeare Offers Tough Choices 2014-01-21T22:13:00Z

Some original music and a few well-worn classical choices accompany the natural beauty. Review: ‘The Gardener’ Cultivates the Wealth of Nature 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The "standoffish" classical concert scene is, he says, ripe for revolution. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z

“Its empty aridity and degraded classical details are vulgarization without drama,” she wrote, “and to be both dull and vulgar is an achievement of sorts.” ArtsBeat: Remembering Ada Louise Huxtable 2013-06-05T12:43:23Z

The Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned his “Gaia,” a symphonic tone poem that doubles as a concerto for Ms. Spalding and suggests a classical tradition deftly redrawn in Mr. Shorter’s hand. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

SSO's hope is that a neophyte who enjoys the sound of a live orchestra performing something familiar might then be interested in exploring classical fare. Seattle Symphony embraces rock, jazz giants 2011-10-13T20:14:09Z

“It’s one of the most intricate and most beautiful works of art that were created by classical African artists,” he continued. Damien Hirst Controversy at Venice Biennale 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

As usual, there will be an array of classical Indian dance styles on display, from the brisk footwork of Kathak to the sensuous swirl of Mohiniattam. ‘To Master Grace Is Not at All an Easy Task’: Inside Indian Dance 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Playwright David Hare declared Scofield's King Lear "the greatest classical performance of my lifetime". Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Mark Rylance? Who is the greatest stage actor ever? 2010-09-22T23:01:00Z

Released by EMI with tracks James personally selected, it debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. classical charts in September. "Fifty Shades of Grey" sparks marketing mania 2012-09-27T22:15:54Z

His entire career was shaped by his need to prove himself to the mainstream classical music world. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Given that all of the threatened commissioners support classical architecture, the White House’s action clearly represents an attack on that type of design, even though it is approved by most Americans,” Shubow said. Rejecting precedent and Trump, Biden ousts members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

And by Carpenter’s standards, it was a rather serious-minded lineup, concentrating upon the classical organ repertoire of J.S. Cameron Carpenter unleashes his International Touring Organ at CAP UCLA 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Presumably, most of those in attendance subscribed to the Dallas Morning News or the Houston Chronicle, but neither paper has a full-time classical critic. The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

And in lieu of classical ballet steps, Bourne brandishes his style of muscular modern dance. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Young vocalists from around the world gathered in China to train with Metropolitan Opera bass Hao Jiang Tian and other opera experts, working on singing classical selections in Mandarin and fostering mutual understanding among cultures. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week of Feb. 24, 2013 2013-02-20T23:51:13Z

Javier C. Hernández is a culture reporter, covering the world of classical music and dance in New York City and beyond. Gustavo Dudamel, Star Maestro, to Resign From Paris Opera 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

But — and this I find inspiring — he spent his evenings doing research at the British Museum, gradually producing 25 important articles on classical subjects. The enduring allure of A.E. Housman’s poetry 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

Their father, Pierre Bourdain, was an executive in the classical music recording industry. An Anthony Bourdain Auction Will Include His Treasured Knife 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

The Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall offers hundreds of videos of performances by one of the world’s great orchestras, and Medici.TV has a growing archive of major classical performances from around the world. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

At selected shows in New York, London, Milan and Paris, performances spanned genres from college rock to classical. On The Runway: At Paris Fashion Week, Designers Play Live Mood Music 2014-03-07T21:25:42Z

Along the charcoal-colored walls, armies of classical statuary and framed plaster intaglios offered a whiff of the Grand Tour. You May Be Surprised to Hear That Restoration Hardware Is Doing Great 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

“You’re sitting by yourself onstage, and it can feel like we’re off to one side of the classical music world,” she noted. On TikTok, an Organist Finds an Audience, and Herself 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

But why should it if the classical industry begins to embrace works like this: products of longer hours and larger budgets, but also of broader possibility and farther reach? The San Francisco Symphony Plunges Into a New World 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

In other words, this book is a vigorous polemic in the classical sense of that word — a sharply focused argument in support of a debatable point of view. How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Instead, the runway show will include the debut of “Capriccio for Carolina,” an original five-minute classical music piece by Tom Hodge, an English composer, whose credits include a classical remix of Daft Punk’s “Aerodynamic.” Runway Crescendo: Strut Over, Beethoven 2013-02-06T21:11:14Z

London-born classical guitarist Julian Bream, who used to earn money as a boy playing piano in his grandmother's pub in Battersea, was given a lifetime achievement award. Columbia shuttle disaster concerto gets top music prize 2013-09-17T21:13:28Z

Statues in progress–a classical figure in stainless steel, a pink ballerina–face off in a room where Koons and his assistants fetishize every surface. Jeff Koons' Really Big Show 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

But perhaps even less known is what it is like to be an Asian American woman in classical music. A Violinist on How to Empower Asian Musicians 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Chen studied Chinese classical dance and the use of acrobatics, martial arts and dance in Chinese opera before arriving in New York, and at Juilliard he learned about Western modern dance techniques. H.T. Chen, Choreographer of the Asian Experience, Dies at 74 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Two pre-eminent figures of modern classical music urging each other to ever greater heights. TV highlights 01/03/2013 2013-03-01T07:00:04Z

Dance, in Doug Fitch’s evocative costumes, “goes from lyrical, classical things to almost performance art,” she said. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

That's what I admired about you two," McNeff chips in, "that you weren't taking the usual classical music route of music clubs and chamber music venues, but playing the Fringe. O Duo: 'It's not just music. It's visual, too' 2010-09-30T22:25:00Z

Normally, in classical music, dissonance resolves into consonance; tension melts into resolution. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

But the classical repertory remains this festival’s heartbeat. Music Review: Caramoor International Music Festival 2012 in Katonah 2012-06-24T22:08:50Z

Poems in Four Voices, a Concerto in Two That David Robertson is a superb conductor of contemporary classical music hardly needs repeating. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series at the Met 2012-06-10T22:10:56Z

In these authors’ hands, non-Western sensibilities might reign in a vivid and original Yoruban religion-based world, or classical settings might be reinterpreted to create a universe in which beauty is not tied to race. New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Like its story, the music in "Tangerine" bumps from one colorful world to another — techno to classical to Armenian folk — and yet has a beautiful cohesion. 'Tangerine' a joyful girlfriend movie for our modern age 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

But Wenders never wondered about the connection between aesthetic conservatism and reactionary politics, between the severed connection to classical ages of culture and the hierarchies that they embodied and advanced. Where Wim Wenders Went Wrong 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Especially, I would say from my partisan perspective, regarding classical music? Critic's Notebook: Balcony Seats Can Help Economic Inequalities in Arts 2011-12-29T18:00:01Z

But it also belongs the world of classical tragedy, where symbol and substance meld seamlessly, as do poetry and prose. Review: ‘In the Blood’ and the Singular Talent of Suzan-Lori Parks 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

So he decided to teach himself to draw in a classical way. Dugald Stermer, Illustrator and Ramparts Art Director, Dies at 74 2011-12-08T04:57:38Z

In the interview, Ms. Poole, who was 24 at the time, said that she felt powerless in dealing with Mr. Wachner, an influential figure in the classical music industry. Trinity Church’s Conductor Put on Leave Amid Investigation 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

“She got a lot of criticism from the examiners — not classical enough, no aesthetic, almost vulgar, just wrong,” he said. Natalia Osipova?s Forceful Rise in Ballet 2010-06-17T22:21:00Z

Diversity: One of “Hamilton’s” distinctions is the way it breaks a white, male tradition wide open to everybody — something that many in the classical music field are trying to do as well. Perspective | Summer is rich with historic American music 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Even Shirley’s pop-oriented music was a technical marvel: He braided bits of classical études into Tin Pan Alley songs, orchestrating it all for an atypical trio of piano, cello and bass. Who Was Don Shirley? ‘Green Book’ Tries to Solve the Mystery 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Do you feel you’re introducing young pop fans to classical music? They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The centrality given to conductors — symbolized by their sometimes, yes, bizarrely large paychecks — is a symptom of a struggling classical field, clinging to the last gasps of a dying system of almost entirely male stars. Baton Inflation: American Conductor Salaries Hit a New High 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

It's in the music's precise layering of piano, violin and oboe that Zeffira's classical background is felt. Rachel Zeffira: The Deserters – review 2013-01-03T22:15:01Z

With all the competition that there is for people’s attention, for fund-raising, even for survival for classical music institutions, the job has become much more than just conducting. After 24 Years, a Conductor Returns to the Met Opera 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

As a kid in Newark, Shorter spent a lot of time listening to radio programs of classical composers, watching foreign films with subtitles and holing up in the library to read about Beethoven and Chopin. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

The arts — literature, poetry, paintings — provide an escape for characters in unbearable situations, and classical allusions abound. Refugees Are Suffering. This Novelist Won’t Look Away. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Holding multiple conducting positions is common in the classical music world and Conlon's new appointment isn't expected to significantly interfere with his responsibilities in Los Angeles. James Conlon named principal conductor of Turin, Italy, orchestra 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

One reason is that in philosophy there are a lot of good books written back in the classical period, and mostly by French authors in the modern period. “When sex is at stake, the truth just goes out the window”: Clancy Martin on love, lies and final first kisses 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

One of the best-known figures in British classical music, Davis worked with the symphony for more than half a century. LSO conductor Colin Davis dies at 85 2013-04-15T11:01:05Z

It suggests that the whole classical tradition in which Michelangelo was steeped is becoming ever more foreign and therefore seemingly less germane, even to many educated people. Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero?s Time to Shine 2010-03-10T02:49:00Z

Jason Hamacher first traveled to Syria in search of classical beauty: liturgical music of the numerous sects that coexisted there. Review | In the galleries: Views of lost scenes from Syria 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Jazz eats everything in its path — rock, classical, Latin. Toni Morrison: First Lady of Letters 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

He is an artist for whom Americanness truly matters, as much as the tradition of Western classical music — both heritages treated not with nostalgia, but with awareness and affection. John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

For classical scholars, putting an emphasis on the material and physical aspects of war, taking the battles so literally, risks diminishing the the mythic legacy of the Greeks. A Misguided Impulse to Update the Greek Classics 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

She gained attention for the drama “Pure,” winning Swedish acting prizes for playing a young woman who is inspired by classical music. Starlet Alicia Vikander has acted alongside quite a list of A-listers 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Joshua Barone is the assistant classical music and dance editor on the Culture Desk and a contributing classical music critic. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Gergiev has not commented on the invasion, even as many classical musicians who didn’t need to have. Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

Hopefully, by the end of the next music director’s tenure, classical music newbies who show enthusiasm by clapping at the end of a movement won’t be silenced by haughty stares. The New York Philharmonic and the Search for a New Music Director 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

As with the ballet, there’s a perception that classical music isn’t the most welcoming, and certainly not the most diverse in its performers or audience members. I Went to My First Classical Music Concert. It Was in My Living Room. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

He was impressed to learn that she was studying classical voice and loved opera, passions he shared. A Union Built in and on Stages 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Though Vivaldi has become a staple of what passes for classical radio these days, mainly through a handful of concertos, his operas remain rarities. Review: Vivaldi’s ‘Catone in Utica’ Gets a Rare Staging 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

A talented classical violinist who had given up her career, Isabel must sell her family’s upscale London house, dismiss the nanny and figure out how and where to live. Review | 3 great new audiobooks for your holiday weekend — and beyond 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The most curious family saga in classical music continues. Last of a generation: Wolfgang Wagner dies aged 90 2010-03-22T17:40:00Z

He was forced to miss the London premiere of his classical "Titanic Requiem" this week because of illness. Reports: Robin Gibb gravely ill in hospital 2012-04-14T11:08:11Z

But the Warner Bros. cartoons from the 1930s to the ’50s used classical music as an “endless source of jokes at the expense of concert hall culture,” Goldmark writes. A Children’s Show About Everything, Especially Music 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

The examples on view show an idealized, classical Claribel and a wide-eyed Etta, “always submissive to her glorious sister, but attentive to everything,” as Matisse recalled. Art Review: What They Loved and What They Bought 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z

He began studying classical piano at 10, but at 14 he heard a jazz jam session that made him decide to play his own music. Karl Berger, 88, Who Opened Minds of Generations of Musicians, Is Dead 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

In Los Angeles “no decision is made without Plácido,” said Deborah Borda, the president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a major player in the Los Angeles classical music world. 2010-01-13T22:49:00Z

Simin Behbahani, a prizewinning poet known as “the lioness of Iran” for deftly combining classical Persian verse forms, poignant emotion and courageous social protest, died on Tuesday in Tehran. Simin Behbahani, Outspoken Iranian Poet, Dies at 87 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

And there was always room for classical stars, often repeat visitors. How ‘Sesame Street’ Started a Musical Revolution 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

She studied the piano from an early age and remembers attending classical concerts on Saturday afternoons. For a Composer at 90, There’s Nothing but Time 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

And, in a way, the lively scene of new and evolving instruments represents part of a larger split in the classical music world between traditionalists and experimenters. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z

Steer uses the harp, among other instruments, to invoke modern classical composition as much as folk-pop. Serafina Steer: The Moths Are Real – review 2013-01-06T00:06:21Z

At Svapnagata, he said the ritual fastening of his ankle bells distinguishes his classical work. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z

The Dover Quartet is the very model of a modern young classical ensemble. Dover Quartet boasts young stars in the making 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

He draws him into the realm of classical music, striking a deep chord when he plays a recording of Liszt’s “Years of Pilgrimage.” Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

With concert halls and opera houses closed around the world as part of bans on large gatherings aimed at curbing the coronavirus outbreak, what are homebound classical critics to do? When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

But it is worth remembering that classical music has been said to be dying roughly since it began. Orchestras in Albany, Rochester and Buffalo Stay Nimble 2014-04-30T12:32:12Z

Bernstein offered the classical music world a different model. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Narrative is our ultimate top-down strategy in watching a movie,” he wrote back, “specifically, I think, classical narrative principles.” What You See Is What You Get 2011-07-09T04:13:03Z

At his apartment, Mariño spoke about his new album, his desire to go beyond castrati roles and his campaign to free himself — along with classical music generally — from the confines of traditional gender boundaries. ‘I Would Love to Sing Lucia’: A Male Soprano Comes Into His Own 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Domingo’s stardom — as one of the Three Tenors, along with Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras, he sang on the best-selling classical recordings of all time — only heightens the stakes. Accusations Against Plácido Domingo Divide the Opera World 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

In “Beauty,” thanks to the lead of the company’s artist in residence, Mr. Ratmansky, the dancers commit themselves to recreating a period classical style. Ballet Theater’s Met Season, a Mix of Sparkling Moments and Familiar War Horses 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Tanowitz’s company splits the bill with the contemporary classical music ensemble Eighth Blackbird. Dance Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Iverson made a brief pitch for his definition of what puts the “American” in American classical music: “swing, the blues, probably a drum set.” Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

On top of that, the old dual way to receive classical music is dead. Digital and Direct Sales Now Bring Orchestras to Fans 2010-04-02T20:56:00Z

Shifting from Hindu temples to Mughal courts, it gained Islamic influences, emerging as a classical art after the Raj. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z

Queering a central relationship and applying the lens of climate change refreshes a classical drama. Review: In ‘Snow in Midsummer,’ It’s Not Just the Forecast That’s Amiss 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

She stares directly at the viewer, with the kind of classical intensity that made me vaguely afraid of portraits as a child. How Radical Can a Portrait Be? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

While most classical, opera and dance groups eliminated the vaccine requirement this fall, many kept in place strict mask mandates on the advice of medical advisers. In New York, Masks Will Not Be Required at the Opera or Ballet 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

But it’s our job to teach them how to voice their desires in a tone that is a bit more classical symphony than punk rock. The art of saying no: How to raise kids to be polite, not pushovers 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Seeing for the first time its floral-topped columns, muscular sculptures and classical friezes emerge out of sandstone is as breathtaking as beholding the Colosseum or Machu Picchu. Exploring Jordan’s cultural fusion 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Many of the artists in “Rear View” channel their backward glances through the classical ideal. ‘Rear View’ Is Rather Forward Thinking 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

I had made an appointment with the distinguished archaeologist responsible for the Nemean excavations for more than 35 years, Stephen G. Miller, now a retired professor of classical archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. An Olympic Odyssey: Where the Games Began 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

It's all front, though, which is why the progressive feminisation of classical music in its performers, conductors and composers is so profoundly positive. Sex still sells classical music but attitudes are changing 2013-06-11T16:59:45Z

Starting in the 1980s when he was Prince of Wales, Charles used speeches, books and television programs to repeatedly attack modern architecture and promote alternatives based on classical forms. A King Who Actually Likes the Arts 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

These reminded him of mountainous scenes in classical Chinese scroll painting, an effect he enhanced by highlighting them in pencil and ink. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Where Humankind and Nature Converge 2011-02-24T13:00:04Z

It’s a notion that spans the history of cinema and that inspired one of the very greatest of comedy directors, Howard Hawks, and it’s among the most classical values of the modern comedy of “Trainwreck.” Everyone Is a "Trainwreck" 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

But right now the grandest classical music gathering of opera, orchestral concerts, recitals, young artist projects, opera camps for children and new music series remains in Austria. Why do music festivals matter? For an answer, America, look to Salzburg 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

Improvisation, once a staple of any performer’s arsenal, is no longer common practice for most classical musicians. New Recordings: ‘Silfra,’ by Hilary Hahn and Hauschka 2012-07-08T03:53:26Z

A large classical music institution, on the eve of a major anniversary, suddenly loses its beloved music director. After its leader’s death, the Cathedral Choral Society rallies 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gerstein, for his part, observed that no pianist he knew was equally eloquent in both styles, so he chose to focus on classical music. Music: Kirill Gerstein Balances Classical Music and Jazz 2012-04-13T20:24:11Z

Malian terra-cottas became the new available “classical“ African art to collect. African Art Is Under Threat in Djenne-Djenno 2012-08-02T12:00:00Z

In chaos and order, animalism and classical harmony, outer dysfunction and inner transcendence. Out of Context: For Pina 2010-06-19T23:15:00Z

Pioneering initiatives to draw young people to classical concerts are among hundreds of events planned by London's Southbank Centre in the UK's biggest classical music programme. Southbank targets new audiences with UK's biggest classical music programme 2011-01-30T14:49:29Z

Whether extending his leg in arabesque or outstretched in the air when jumping, he exemplifies classical line better than any man in ballet today, and perhaps better than any woman. Dance Review: Osipova, Vishneva and Cojocaru: 3 Giselles at Ballet Theater 2012-05-21T04:14:04Z

Given Ligeti’s stature in the pantheon of the 20th century’s classical oddballs, the curiosity value of the piece and the tardiness of occasion, Mr. Gilbert could claim bragging rights just for playing the music. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z

The departure of a Philharmonic music director, and the search for a replacement, is the classical music world’s equivalent of the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary rolled into one. Alan Gilbert to Leave New York Philharmonic in 2017 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

While it might surprise some that a proficient classical musician like Ma would transition to this version of Americana, "The Goat Rodeo Sessions" is Ma's second project with Meyer. Yo Yo Ma turns to bluegrass music for new album 2011-10-21T17:45:42Z

“The orchestra is what a lot of people think of when they think of classical music,” Snider says. Perspective | Female composers are making great strides. The classical music world isn’t helping them. ​ 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

Recently the two masters have come together in Crosscurrents, a band devoted to what’s now an old idea — the fusion of rock, jazz and Indian classical — but with its own sparkling allure. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

In the early years of her career, Connolly was most closely associated with the contemporary classical repertoire and also with jazz. Sarah Connolly: from triumph to tragedy 2013-06-21T12:01:00Z

Charen, a classical music lover who often discusses music on her podcast, has convinced herself that learning an instrument will keep her mind sharp. Pundit Mona Charen blew up CPAC. Even she was stunned by the vitriol that ensued. 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

What classical music he knew was from his mother, a talented amateur pianist. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

Citing a circulation of 100,000, the largest for a classical music magazine in the country, it provides information on Met casts and broadcasts and glossy profiles of star singers. Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z

Does exposure to classical music make children better at mathematics? What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

While their repertory is largely classical, the group’s numbers span Bach and the Beatles. Cruise and Air News: Robots Onboard; Chefs Too 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

The first half of Goode’s typically thoughtful program was devoted to Viennese classical masters. Review | Pianist Richard Goode plays a deeply satisfying concert at U-Md. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

The time it takes to animate in the classical way is crammed into about one-tenth of the time in this process. Animated film about a man and his dog comes to Siskel 2011-01-07T14:54:00Z

One-man surveys of classical Chinese painting are relatively rare. Review: Bada Shanren, Chinese Art Superstar, Takes a Bow at the Freer 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

But for Morlot, it’s not really a question of choosing between old and new, popular and classical, but finding relationships between them. Screams and silence: the new approach at Seattle Symphony 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

What the history of British classical dance overwhelmingly demonstrates is that while women may run ballet schools and become ballet company administrators and directors, they are rarely, if ever, invited to the choreographic high table. Sexism in dance: where are all the female choreographers? 2013-04-28T08:00:33Z

His classical education, everywhere present, is perhaps most effective in his explanation of the enduring cultural weight of JFK’s assassination. Review | Daniel Mendelsohn’s ‘Ecstasy and Terror’ is a master class in criticism 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

In this alternate history set in 1840s Oxford, orphan Robin Swift is taken from his home in China and raised by Professor Lowell, who gives his ward a foundation in various foreign and classical languages. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Mostly what remains is an unremarkable mix of grunge and rock with a smattering of classical and blues, a reflection of a certain time in our lives. From Our Children: Retreating to Memory With a Song 2012-09-25T15:15:07Z

Dr. Jones, a flutist and composer who serves as an assistant dean and faculty member at the Juilliard School, was adamant about expressing herself as a Black classical musician. A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

We did plenty of classical dance, a lot of Jerome Robbins and Balanchine, who I had met when he staged “The Four Temperaments” at the Opera in the 1960s. Brigitte Lefèvre, Ballet’s Disciplined Rebel, Takes Her Next Steps 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

There’s a lot of classical training in it, but it’s very much embedded underneath a more naturalistic veneer. Twyla Tharp and Her Dancers Look Back, Mindful of the Future 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Oh, and even as he was completing medical school at Harvard University, he trained as an Indian classical music vocalist. Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

The London version is more monumental, more heroic, because by the 1500s Leonardo had mastered the eloquence and calm of classical Greek art. Leonardo swap will make for the greatest gathering of his work to date 2011-07-28T10:39:30Z

And far from the city center, where most of Munich’s high-profile classical music performances take place. A Temporary Concert Hall Hopes for a Permanent Audience 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Implicit in her remarks was an argument for classical music as an oasis of idiosyncrasy in a culture of mass-marketed sameness. On Tara Erraught: Bodies and Voices in Opera 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

You might say that Mr. Malick’s work is a classical treatment of themes that, in Mr. Zeitlin’s version, are explored through the squawk and heat of blues, zydeco and other impure, vernacular products of America. Movie Review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ Directed by Benh Zeitlin 2012-06-26T20:56:35Z

Contemplations, reflections and digressions around musicians, trends, albums and enthusiams by the Observer's Paul Morley Paul Morley's Showing Off ... index Why do we hate modern classical music? Alex Ross: Clash of the critics 2010-12-12T00:01:00Z

Hopefully that will change people’s perceptions of what classical music is. Royal wedding cello prodigy hopes to inspire classical music’s next generation 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Men occasionally dance female roles in classical ballet, but only for humorous effect, like the stepsisters in Frederick Ashton’s “Cinderella.” A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

That said, you may harbour doubts when we tell you that their music mixes classical with techno and jazz. This week's new singles 2011-01-01T00:05:38Z

There are seven rhythmic patterns in Indian classical music and 10 incarnations of Vishnu, the Hindu god of universal preservation. Dance review: ‘Glory of Numbers’ is about the beauty

The music, by Terence Blanchard — a jazz trumpeter also known for his scores for Spike Lee films — has earned praise from both classical and jazz critics. Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

These characters look like stylized Hindu temple sculptures and move in ways that echo classical Indian dance. A Diverse Pixar Crew Grabs an Oscar Nomination 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Even Mr. Beale, one of the finest classical actors on the planet, looks small in this scheme of things. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z

Regular offerings include jewelry, contemporary and classical paintings, antiquities and furniture of every description. Bidding for Treasures in Paris 2010-04-27T10:02:00Z

On the one hand, it’s a program celebrating some of the masterful orchestrators of the classical tradition; on the other, it’s entirely 20th-century music — an epoch that many orchestra fans still view as new. At a moment of transition, NSO offers the old-new: 20th-century classical works 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

“It’s a lieder cycle,” Greenwell said, borrowing a term from classical music. Garth Greenwell Comes Clean 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

A few quartets, like the Juilliard, Guarneri and Emerson, are household names, at least for classical music lovers. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

Yet here she was, sitting back in a chair, as the classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein opened the concert with Robert Schumann's In the Evening. Simone Dinnerstein and Tift Merritt – review 2013-07-02T18:13:26Z

He is at the top of the classical charts regularly. Mozart tops list for callers on hold 2013-09-23T14:03:45Z

And following their lead were 1,400 sober bankers, politicians, socialites and classical music lovers standing and cheering too, as if the ground beneath everyone's feet had suddenly shifted. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

“The team of curators was not so sure that you were an artist for this museum, that you belonged to the classical world of art.” R. Crumb Gets a Show at the Mus?e d?Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 2012-04-13T22:27:10Z

His obliquely inflected, alternately pinging and pining guitar sound and genre-blind approach to everything from country to classical has been a mighty influence. Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell returns to Seattle for a Jazz Alley gig with his trio 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Stutzmann’s appointment comes amid a broader reckoning in classical music over a history of discrimination on the basis of gender and race. A Female Conductor Joins the Ranks of Top U.S. Orchestras 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Eastman was a pianist, composer, and dancer who tried, in the sixties and seventies, to bridge the worlds of classical music, pop music, and the downtown avant-garde. Song of the Summer: “Femenine,” by Julius Eastman 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

“The most original film by the most original of filmmakers,” wrote Jean-Luc Godard, “it is to the cinema of today what ‘Birth of a Nation’ was to the classical cinema.” Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Summer With Monika’ 2012-05-27T03:41:56Z

The loss of Prototype 2022 felt especially sharp because classical music and its stylistic descendants were otherwise largely spared in an outbreak that wreaked more havoc on dance and theater. A Penetrating Cry in the Dark at the Prototype Festival 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

The western end was a hodgepodge of buildings and parkland, he said, with a half-baked attempt at classical order. The Ascension of Peter Zumthor 2011-03-13T05:00:20Z

Ashton's 1948 classic is a fragile balance of magic and pantomime, of romantic drama and classical style. Cinderella ? review 2010-12-15T22:20:00Z

In rehearsals, Mr. Forsythe consistently stressed the importance of classical form. Forsythe Coaches Boston Ballet in ‘The Second Detail’ 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Alex Ross reports that the new classical music season in New York is looking back, not forward. Essential Arts & Culture: The new MacArthur winners, Gehry's Bilbao effect, Springsteen on Broadway 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

According to the plot, the garishly hued trolls live in tribes according to musical genres: pop, funk, classical, and so on. Is Trolls World Tour the most important film of 2020? 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

Werkplaats Walter is a roost for the extremes of classical, electronic, jazz, rock and improvisation. 10 of the best music venues in Brussels 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The bulk of the repertory, which is still being organized, will be from the past five years, and from the worlds of jazz and classical music. California’s Leading Conductors Come Together for a New Festival 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Some critics adored Ms. Guillem’s interpretations of the great classical roles and the passion of her acting in the 20th-century repertory; some criticized her liberties with choreography and style. Sylvie Guillem Prepares to End Her Ballet Career 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

The prize will be voted for by the public from the 10 biggest classical tracks of the year including Nessun Dorma, Jerusalem and Hans Zimmer's Time, used in the film Inception. Bocelli to receive Classic honour 2012-09-06T17:32:18Z

For me, ballet, and for that matter kathak, the classical Indian dance form that I trained in, don’t belong to a particular era. Coming to Chicago: A ‘Giselle’ That Speaks to the Present 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

But now the classical and contemporary dance worlds are “absolutely interconnected” rather than parallel, she said. Bringing Contemporary Dance to Russia, Citadel of Classicism 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

The British pieces, also both based on literary works, are resolutely contemporary in spirit, with very different propositions about what a full-length classical ballet could be. Review: ‘The Red and the Black’ Is Sumptuous, but Safe 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Country music is largely silly advertising jingles, pop music is fluff with autotunes edits, R&B is amazing, but largely ignored, and contemporary classical music seems depressingly narcissistic and disconnected. Kendrick Lamar Shakes Up the Pulitzer Game: Let’s Discuss 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

So, for 60 years, she has spent time relaxing to classical music at night. Don’t want to retire? Here’s how to maintain a fulfilling career into your 80s and beyond. 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

In 2013, she was named to the Order of the British Empire for her services to classical scholarship. Mary Beard and Her ‘Battle Cry’ Against Internet Trolling 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

He is known as a lover of classical music, a student of philosophy and world religions and a proponent of sometimes controversial ideas. In the Footsteps of Charles III 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Another Adams concern is his relation to classical music's past, his rethinking the likes of Ives, Beethoven, Handel and Takemitsu. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

After seeing the movie, the Schoenberg Ensemble asked her to perform the song cycle “Pierrot Lunaire” with it; she became one of that exacting piece’s foremost interpreters, and an in-demand narrator classical pieces. Her Specialty Is Bringing Headstrong Women to Life Onscreen 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

The coming classical music season has an unsettled quality, a sense of a culture trying to orient itself in the midst of crisis. Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Which classical pieces have you found to be most effective for drawing in children? At Nationals Park in Washington, Van Hoose hits all the right notes 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

The orchestra founded by Hungarian railway company MAV is 75 years old this year and remains one of the country’s leading classical ensembles. Hungarian orchestra cheers locked down Budapest with drive-by music 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

She excelled at her music studies, mastering Afghan folk songs as well as classical works. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

While the concerto is long-established in classical music, the saxophone - 175 years after it was invented - remains a bit player in the orchestra. Classical Saxophone in Proms spotlight 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

What's exemplary about Reich's subsequent life in music is that he's never compromised to fit in with classical music's festivals, institutions, or style police. Steve Reich at 75: the rebel who changed classical music 2011-08-09T14:47:23Z

The very model of classical Hollywood’s “invisible” filmmakers, McCarey doesn’t work through grand gestures and bold compositions, but rather through carefully judged ellipses and unobtrusive metaphors. DVDs: In the Depression, a Couple Undone 2010-02-19T23:59:00Z

"More classical musicians respect Björk than any other pop star," he adds. Live from planet Bj?rk 2011-07-04T19:00:00Z

The pairing seems to echo the hero-king duality of so many male portraits: Tubman is sitting, in charge, farseeing, while Taylor has the classical, active contrapposto of an ancient athlete. Review | Breonna Taylor’s image adorned T-shirts, signs and street murals. Now her portrait is in the Smithsonian. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Though he studied piano at Morgan State University, one of Baltimore’s historically black colleges and universities, he was held to the straight classical curriculum. Perspective | The Soulful Symphony reinvents itself, elevating music’s American roots 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Nigel Kennedy says the 'cult of authenticity' in classical music is ruining Bach's work. Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z

Topi Lehtipuu, a Paris-based Finnish tenor and an artistic director of the Turku Music Festival, an annual festival of classical music, recently performed a concert in the attic of an abandoned gas storage tank. The Europe Issue: A Finnish City Prepares for the Limelight 2010-10-07T15:10:00Z

Cicely Tyson is a great actress with credits in the serious theater; Carole King’s songs define a new “classical” tradition of American song. How the Kennedy Center Honors have surrendered to pop culture and abandoned the center’s core arts 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Scrupulously adhering to the classical unities of a "Dateline" reenactment, the action is set on a fateful Fourth of July in 1937, in Fitzgerald’s suite at the one-time Hollywood glitterati-magnet Garden of Allah Hotel. There's little insight into the literary sparring partners 'Scott and Hem' 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

“He could be so formal in a certain way — he’s so learned and classical,” Smith said in a phone interview. John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hyla, a popular figure whose efforts to meld rock and jazz with classical idioms had a structural exactitude, died last year in Chicago at 61. Review: New York New Music Ensemble Plays a Tribute Concert for Lee Hyla 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

As a youth, Mr. Banyai showed promise as both a classical pianist and an artist. Istvan Banyai, Illustrator Who Mined the Surreal, Dies at 73 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z

Evancho’s new album “Two Hearts,” which she brings to the Triple Door on March 23-24, is also about being pulled in two directions: classical and pop. In politics and music, Jackie Evancho is pulled in two directions 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Visually, too, few objects announce a performance as classical music as surely as the forest of music stands that usually sprouts up around performers onstage. Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z

All studied together at the Juilliard School in New York and have been widely featured in the news, presented as wholesome young people eager to spread classical music. ArtsBeat: Father of 5 Browns Pleads Guilty to Abusing Daughters 2011-02-19T00:20:16Z

For at least 20 years Ms. Malkki has been one of the most exciting and sought-after conductors in classical music. For the Met Opera, the Pandemic Could Be a Necessary Reset 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere in California, San Francisco ranks as the best cities for classical music. America's Musical Cities 2010-07-07T21:20:00Z

The Renaissance revival of classical styles and themes somehow brought with it torrents of urine. Why are there so many ancient fountains featuring little boys peeing? 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

“As with other marginalized instruments, like percussion, low brass or classical guitar, there is always a bit of missionary work going on,” Mr. McAllister said. 2010-01-31T06:12:00Z

The standard repertory in classical music is often standard for good reason: Great works are gifts that keep on giving with repeated hearings. Yes, We Need (Yet) Another Rachmaninoff Recording 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

When a piece of music manages to be rooted in classical tradition while still sounding completely new, it’s worth paying attention. Caroline Shaw piano concerto premiere turns classical tradition on its head 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Over the course of a protean half-century career in film, television and theater, Mr. McCowen’s greatest triumphs were on the stage, often in classical roles. Alec McCowen, British Actor Who Played Saint and Fool, Dies at 91 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

The prominent violinist Jennifer Koh wasn’t there, but she is a keen observer of issues of race in the classical field. Was Yuja Wang’s Concert Satirical or Offensive? It’s Complicated 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Porcha Mason, 16, who's played the violin for five years, said she tells her friends, who prefer hip-hop, they should listen to classical music. A crowded free day of music at Seattle Symphony 2011-09-19T18:14:21Z

If you want to try relaxing bedtime music for yourself, you’ll find that plenty of the most relaxing classical/ jazz/blues albums are readily available and, of course, you can easily make your own playlists. Can music help us fall asleep? 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

Q: A quirk of the seemingly staid classical music world is a passion for fast cars, shared by the late conductor Herbert von Karajan through to violinist Joshua Bell. It's not over 'til the tenor sings -- now in 3D 2011-02-23T11:11:35Z

Castro, an alumna of Urban Bush Women, dons tap shoes, Guha adds her decades-long immersion in classical Indian Kathak dance to the mix, and Rosales brings her brand of fiery flamenco. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Here, three of The New York Times’s classical music writers — Michael Cooper, a reporter, Joshua Barone, a senior staff editor and critic, and Seth Colter Walls, a critic — discuss his astonishing performance so far. A New Wotan Reigns in the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

Her laughter is sudden and furious, overriding the classical music burbling away in the background of her hotel room. Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!' 2011-03-03T21:31:00Z

In addition to playing, Shore also wrote charts and occasionally sang, and when the band began playing with symphony orchestras around Canada, he got to flex his classical muscles by writing orchestral arrangements. Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

“We had the dream to bridge the contemporary and the classical and to also transform the institution,” Waltz said. Sasha Waltz’s ‘In C’ Marries Choreography and Improvisation 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

After leaving Hollywood in the late '60s, Previn dedicated himself to classical music and served as music director of the London Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Andre Previn's 'Streetcar' opera will play L.A., but without him 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Trained in classical music and jazz, Mr. Swingle began the group almost as a lark in Paris, where he had lived off and on since the 1950s. Ward Swingle, Who Made Classical Music Jazzy, Dies at 87 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Even after more than three hours of intense opera, these classical fans craved more music. L.A. Opera for the late-night cocktail crowd: Checking out the new 'After Hours' series 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Racial barriers in our world are not gone, so why can we imagine that racial barriers in classical music and opera world are gone? ArtsBeat: Jessye Norman Talks About ‘Stand Up Straight and Sing!’ 2014-05-06T16:27:37Z

These young composers may hold the key to classical music’s future, and the future they create might not be what you expect. As New Composers Flourish, Where Will They Be Heard? 2011-12-09T17:01:37Z

It’s a situation comedy in the best, classical sense: These people’s ethical problems are sometimes ours. ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ Review: She Can’t Handle the Truth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Ecological, techno and classical were the tryptich of values at the first shows of this new decade. 2010-01-16T06:40:00Z

He was an undergraduate at Brooklyn College, received a master’s in classical studies at Brown University and a PhD in history from Ohio State University. Donald Kagan, leading neo-conservative historian, dead at 89 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Iverson’s score, which he plays onstage, is terrifically smart and stylistically diverse, mixing strains of early jazz, blues, contemporaneous classical music, Latin tinges and later pop with wit and a playful sense of history. Review: Dance Heginbotham Shows Off Its Eccentric Style at the Joyce 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

“In classical technique basically we try to sing with maximum resonance all the time,” he said. Opera Star Tries Doin? What Comes Natur?lly 2011-07-14T22:16:30Z

The opposing sides agree on only one thing - that the Elgin Marbles form one of the most important collections of classical art in existence. How did the Elgin Marbles get here? 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

He has become a symbol of pride in South Korea, where he has been described as classical music’s answer to K-pop. A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

The play, which is at City Center through April 17, is likely too pensive to appeal to a wider audience but should provide lighthearted amusement to enthusiasts of classical theater. Hamlet goes back to school in 'Wittenberg' 2011-03-21T22:17:18Z

It distills Shakespeare’s complexity into balletic perfection, with Oberon and Titania’s rapturous final encounter surely one of the most beautiful pas de deux in all of classical dance. The Week Ahead: June 6 ? 12 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z

Countries with national youth orchestras generally tend to bestow a much larger degree of central government financing on classical music than the United States does. Carnegie Hall to Establish National Youth Orchestra in 2013 2012-01-11T21:00:13Z

El Sistema aims to use the teaching of classical music to improve the lives of poor children and to help underprivileged neighborhoods. Los Angeles Philharmonic to Lead a Sistema-Style Project 2011-10-04T18:28:27Z

She added that that her venerable classical woodwind was played through an electronic filter. Prog rock meets folk as Moulettes soar in London 2013-12-02T15:15:27Z

Perhaps it’s about injecting Hollywood glamour into New York’s classical musical world. David Geffen Captures Naming Rights to Avery Fisher Hall With Donation 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Early buzz on classical music blogs about Fleming's redefinition of rock opera has been less than kind. Opera star Fleming sets out on "Dark" adventure 2010-04-16T23:15:00Z

Columbia Records was hoping to cash in on the success of the 1968 album “Switched-On Bach,” a synthesizer take on the classical composer, but it wasn’t sure how to market the new record. He Made Kids’ Music and Albums About Lucifer. Now His Work Is a Rock Opera. 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Coleman also had many admirers, including conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, as well as writer and classical composer Virgil Thomson. Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“Pas de Trois,” a little classical gem, is a facet of the City Center years, but the choice of it as the special item added more tutus to a compilation already overburdened by tulle. City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

“Mozart in the Jungle,” alas, like so many pop-culture representations of classical music, seems to think that when music enters the picture, normal standards don’t apply — in this case, basic research, or basic quality. Off-pitch ‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Conducting serious actors among classical-music-industry cliches 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

And, because our son is a musician, we felt there was no better place to visit than Vienna and Salzburg because of their historical connections to Mozart, Beethoven and other classical composers. Inspired by the Billy Joel tune, a family heads to Vienna 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

True History dates from the second century AD and was written in the classical Greek of an era that must have already seemed ancient to his contemporaries. Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z

But in recent years, Patterson + Reckinger have turned their attention to live classical and avant-garde music — creating, often in collaboration with other artists and animators, wild visual sequences that accompany musicians on stage. Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger turn animation into a wild sensory art installation 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

As for the three Shakespeare pieces, they represented a grail of classical music marketing: all by well-known composers, yet all pieces you might not have heard before. The playing’s the thing: NSO shines despite, not because of, Shakespeare gimmick 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

When the iTunes store first arose, it did well by classical music and other genres outside the pop hegemony. The Anxious Ease of Apple Music 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

This week brought one of those mini-festivals that seem to sprout periodically in New York’s classical music ecosystem: four evenings of choral music tied to the Christmas season. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

In period films like “Carol,” “The Good German” and “The Aviator,” Blanchett has often evoked a classical kind of mid-century movie stardom. Blanchett, del Toro on the femme fatale of ‘Nightmare Alley’ 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Moran proposed a duet concert, the two of them alternating or jointly improvising jazz and classical pieces. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Which is inevitably what most classical theater has been.” Head of Classic Stage Company to Depart in 2022 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

“It was something completely new to me, and I was a very timid person,” she recalled of the music-theme show, which ranged from rock to classical. The Soprano Sonya Yoncheva Is Poised for Stardom 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

He was highly cultured and wildly rebellious, a pop genius who happened to be the son of a well-known classical composer and conductor. Review: ‘Lambert & Stamp’ Recalls the Duo Who Helped Ignite the Who 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

In her first violin role, she used a much more aggressive approach in louder passages than the others, who stuck to a more early classical style. Lincoln Center ensemble lets the cello be the star | Classical review 2013-05-08T17:59:35Z

When she learned that Rice played classical music, Franklin sent for one of her recordings "to hear what she sounded like". Condoleezza Rice and Aretha Franklin perform duet 2010-07-28T09:05:00Z

For that matter, neither does Ms. Buchanan, a classical pianist who went into arts management after graduating from New England Conservatory rather than embarking on the grueling competition circuit. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

Kremer championed Philip Glass’ initially maligned Violin Concerto in the 1980s and finally shamed the classical concert world into taking the composer seriously. Mirga meets an old master at Disney Hall 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Christian salvation, the horrors of civil war, the stage as a secondary world, the symbolic import of magic, dreams and ghosts — Bate brilliantly delineates their classical origins and redeployment in Shakespeare’s work. Review | Who art thou, Shakespeare? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

He's up there as one of the most famous, most familiar and most esteemed composers in the whole history of classical music. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

“He is an artist-philosopher, at the same time a very classical artist and a very contemporary one, both very Chinese and very European.” Huang Yong Ping Brings 'Empires' of Globalization to Paris 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Still, she adored the classical repertoire, which she performed as a first alto in Howard’s nationally renowned concert choir. Eulaulah Hathaway on Her Musical Marriage to Donny Hathaway 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

“Years ago I used to watch Victor Borge, still concertizing in his 80s,” he said of another brilliant and formative classical music humorist. Peter Schickele Brings P.D.Q Bach Back to the Stage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

During the previous months, I’d been learning a coding language while trying to develop a project about the aesthetics of classical Arabic poetry. Hacking the Humanities 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

A prodigious talent, Liberace learned to play the piano at the age of four and was able to memorise difficult classical pieces by the time he was seven. Liberace: the 10 things you need to know 2013-06-07T11:27:40Z

But when it comes to classical music, there’s an added factor: The popular image of classical music has a stronger hold on its depiction than any mere fact can challenge. ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ and entertainment’s classical-music problem 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Apple hopes the app will help draw new listeners to classical music, and many features are aimed at shedding its elitist image. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Her debut release in 2004, Premiere, blended classical songs and Welsh hymns and went to number one in the Classical Album chart. Katherine Jenkins in new record deal 2014-01-20T14:50:32Z

He said that while the programming would be varied, it would mainly serve Tanglewood’s main goal: enriching the experience for people to enjoy classical music. After Decades of Music, Tanglewood Talks 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

She was 6 when her mother introduced her to classical music. Elayne Jones, Pioneering Percussionist, Is Dead at 94 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

The diffusion of classical learning in general and Aldo’s books in particular stimulated a new demand for secular works of art. In Venice, the Power of the Press on Display 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

And if you think this sounds like a way to show how exalted and powerful classical music is, well, be my guest. Off-pitch ‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Conducting serious actors among classical-music-industry cliches 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

When I ask him about returning to his classical roots in his symphonic work, he notes he still writes experimental music. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

This pairing features the American Ballet Theater Studio Company, under the direction of Kate Lydon, performing alongside graduates of the Royal Ballet School in a shared program of classical choreography. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

On certain Tuesday nights during special exhibitions, the museum hosts classical music concerts; the next events are scheduled for April 20 and 27. What to Pair With Monet? Try Classical Music. 2010-04-18T10:00:00Z

While the Ipsos researchers didn’t provide reasons for the audience spike, Mr. Velev said that both the shift to classical tunes and the station’s news coverage might help explain it. Limited to Prewar Music, Bulgarian Station Thrives 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Malkki looks forward to working with the orchestra on classical repertoire, but also aims to diversify. Malkki at helm of Finnish orchestra cracks glass ceiling 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

His early poems especially can be overly jeweled with classical references, to Circe and Icarus and Eurydice and Artemis, as if he were not painting lilies but hanging bangles on them. Books of The Times: ?Collected Poems? by Jack Gilbert 2012-03-13T12:00:00Z

There’s no reason that the craft of classical ballet choreography couldn’t be looked at like classical music composition or visual arts or architecture — as an art that you study. Dance Luminaries Weigh in on the Conspicuous Absence of Female Choreographers 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Backed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra, Osmond sings a mix of classical, opera and Broadway tunes. Marie Osmond takes singing career in new symphonic direction 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Tributes have been paid to the British classical composer Jonathan Harvey, who has died in Lewes, east Sussex aged 73. Jonathan Harvey, composer, dies 2012-12-06T10:04:51Z

There are historical accounts of clownish performances in ancient Egypt and China, and classical Greek and Roman theater never missed the chance to indulge in bawdy guff. A Brief History of Slapstick Humor 2010-10-18T08:00:00Z

It is Hitchcockian in its elegance, but shot and framed with classical restraint. Cannes 2019: Peter Bradshaw's picks – and Palme d'Or predictions 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Morris has a way, all too singular, of placing classical ballet in a setting of understated elegance. Review: Mark Morris Fits Houston Ballet to a ‘V’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

The centerpiece is a display of numerous monumental figurative sculptures in Pioneer Work’s yawning main space — a vibrant carnivalesque antidote to the classical sculpture courts of western museums. Four Knockout Group Shows to See Now 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

What did he think about the Nureyev versions of the big classical ballets that the Opera performs? ArtsBeat: At Press Conference, Benjamin Millepied Responds to Questions About New Paris Opera Ballet Post 2013-01-24T19:49:32Z

For the finale, the dancers high-stepped their way off the stage to the sounds of the Florida duo Black Violin, who, fittingly, mix hip-hop with classical violin and viola. The Top 10 Moments of Paris Fashion Week 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Northern Ballet is the only classical ballet company in the north of England and one of the UK's most respected dance organisations. Donors save ballerinas after cuts 2012-06-25T13:47:19Z

He danced solo classical parts in “Swan Lake” and “Giselle” — the company then had only a few full-length 19th-century classics in its repertoire — as well as the title role in Balanchine’s “Apollo.” Daniel Levins, Classically Trained Ballet Dancer, Dies at 62 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

This reflects a new sense of how our large legacy classical arts institutions should interact with their cities. The Philharmonic Grows in a Shipping Container in Brooklyn 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z

They aimed for a balance of classical tradition and modern dance. Staatsballett Berlin Leaders to Leave Prematurely 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

What remains classical in his approach is his strict respect for symmetry. How Do You Add to Versailles? Bravely 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

There he reacts against his father's ambition for him to become a classical musician, and against the authorities that force him to wear a yellow star pinned to his chest. Gainsbourg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

Somewhere inside this labyrinth of personas remains the consummate musician who started playing classical piano in primary school and landed a record deal when she was 16. Alicia Keys – review 2013-05-20T16:59:00Z

He was rarely forced to deal with foes of a different race, language, or religion, nor was he ever, at least in classical times, stranded in alien jungle or desert landscapes. A Misguided Impulse to Update the Greek Classics 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Lila herself seems a classical character, dominant and opaque, full of rage and fury. Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

They took their food processors on the road, demoing the quick work they could made of the labor-intensive, classical French techniques in style at the time. The almost-lost, cult-favorite Cuisinart magazine 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

It’s hard to remember a time when the marathon concert was not a feature of New York’s classical music landscape. Music Review: Fernando Otero in Music of Now Marathon at Symphony Space 2012-02-07T23:33:12Z

He was lured east by Deborah Borda, the New York Philharmonic’s powerful president and chief executive, in an instance of classical music history repeating itself. Gustavo Dudamel, Star Maestro, to Leave L.A. for New York Philharmonic 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Travel disruptions from Europe’s volcanic ash problem have brought a heavy measure of turmoil to the classical music world. Europe?s Cloud of Ash Casts Pall Over World of Music 2010-04-16T23:27:00Z

Originally from Poland, Bornstein had a background in classical music, theater and ballet, but she says she took a big chance and revamped the center’s programming. Lehman Center celebrates 40th season serving the Bronx, NY 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z