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 ...

The Ivors Academy has announced the 34 composers and librettists who have been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award. The ...

In popular culture, it’s not often that classical music gets a spot in the proverbial spotlight. But more recently, two celebrated films have taken the subject up and earned critical and cultural ...

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 ...

Being a composer is a solitary gig, even in the best of times. And that feeling of isolation can be exacerbated for people of color working in classical music’s predominantly white spaces. But amid ...

Now that the Proms is over, what other classical concerts can we look forward to? There will be tributes to grandees of the ...

Billy Joel’s songs are legendary - “Piano Man,” "Just the Way You Are", "Only the Good Die Young", "She's Always a Woman" and “Uptown Girl” among hundreds of others. Yet the singer-songwriter is quick ...

The first thing to know about "Black Keys: The Evolution of the Black Classical Arts" is that the concert is sold out. That happened more than a month ago, leaving only the slim hope of a wait list ...

Ilaiyaraaja to begin work on his second symphony after marking his mother's death anniversary. The composer expressed ...

Naysayers be damned. Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever, milestone birthdays were ...

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 ...