The French composer, Claude Debussy, is known as the first impressionist composer. He was born in 1862 and is often referred to as one of the most influential composers of the time. Some of his most ...

Georgia Mann plays the best classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar ...

For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, ...

Ranked lists are intended to lend what sure feels like objective authority to a retrospective appraisal of the year (why else involve numbers?). But, reader, never do I feel more distinctly subjective ...

FILE — Wet Ink Ensemble performs Kate Soper's "Ipsa Dixit" at Miller Theater at Columbia University in New York, Oct. 27, 2018. Critics picked the group as the best classical music ensemble of 2018.

It’s time for new rules. The Metropolitan Opera, once fearful of upsetting its base with too much novelty, is now desperate enough to try a novel diet of new operas. The New York Philharmonic begins ...

The Proms has to be the greatest classical music festival on Earth, as welcoming to the nervous classical novice as it is to the cognoscenti. This year’s season has already delivered some ...

Christoph von Dohnanyi, who died on Saturday, was a conductor of clarity and poise, as evidenced especially in his output with the Cleveland Orchestra. By David Allen Known for his long tenure at the ...

There's nothing ostentatious about this South Beach music hall, despite the fact that world-famous architect Frank Gehry designed it. Inside is a comfortable 756-seat, in-the-round auditorium. Above ...

Born in 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, and violist. His work included solo music, choral pieces, instrumental concertos, and many keyboard music. Some of ...