It’s hard to imagine, but there really was a time when classical music was the popular music of the day. Haydn, Beethoven and the boys were the “rock stars” of their time. If music fans wanted to hear ...

On Feb. 22, the Hamel Music Center will host the Undergraduate String Chamber Orchestra with the Monona Brass Quintet. The concert, which is all undergraduate-run, will include works by Leos Janacek, ...

The implication, of course, was that playing classical music was not fun. At about the same time, someone posted to Facebook a video of 3-year-old Jonathan in his living room "conducting" Brahms' ...

(CBS News) While the merits of classical music are almost limitless, it is oftentimes a bit tricky to get kids to listen to and love it. With this problem in mind, one of our favorite experimental ...

Violinist Jenna Sherry is the artistic director of the Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival in New Orleans. (BCMF) Birdfoot Festival has dropped "Chamber Music" from its official title, but this New ...

Imagine a magical place where colorful marionettes from around the globe sing, dance, and play folk tunes from their native lands. As they interact with the audience and tell their personal stories, ...

Classical music returns to Mockingbird Station this month with Summer Classical Music Series, beginning May 16. The series received D Magazine’s last year’s “Best of Big D” award for best summer music ...

It might just be because I am getting old, but suddenly it seems like classical music is newly cool. Tár, Todd Field’s caustic portrait of a celebrity conductor, was the most critically consequential ...

Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo promise to have the audience jumping out of their seats when they perform the U.S. debut of their concert “And Now Mozart” at the Carpenter Center on Sunday. They’re ...

The Clayton Piano Festival returns for ten days on Thursday, bringing high-energy concerts by world-renowned pianists to the area. Concerts run through Nov. 4 both in Clayton and in nearby communities ...

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