Watch and listen to recent highlights, including “The Comet/Poppea,” a Dave Malloy song cycle and a soprano’s surprise turn ...

"My background was quite classical," Dessner says, recalling how he played a lot of Bach and English Renaissance lute music as a young adult. "That was sort of in my language as I started to write ...

Jennifer Higdon won't apologize for writing accessible music The Pulitzer-winning composer wants her music to speak to everyone, from farmers to children to the classical intelligentsia ...

Plus Ringo Starr at 84, Dwyane Wade, Leonard Bernstein, how to define classical music, the world porn made, R. Crumb, biblical ... Reading and writing music once again became an activity for ...

Similarly, writing about classical music can sometimes seem like the person was drunk: "As evanescent as the wind yet as permanent as bedrock." But here's the thing: ...

As I’ve stated elsewhere, Kirk is right that the search capabilities of the Classical app are a real advance for classical music fans. But the user experience itself (its iPhone-only interface, its ...

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Tom Huizenga: Back in 2011, you contributed a few blog posts for NPR. One of them suggested that "update" was the key word for the classical music field going forward. "Updating is not putting ...

In a wood-paneled practice room on the lower level of Granoff Music Center, graduating senior Matthew Winkler sat down to talk about his love of classical music, his years writing for the Daily and ...