Central European orchestras retain remnants of a guild system ... In the United States, one worries that without Asians populating music schools and orchestras, the classical music world would shrink ...

Long before Elvis or Mercury, Franz Liszt turned piano concerts into mass hysteria. Discover the birth of musical fame.

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As usual, my retrospective list of the “best” classical and opera offerings of ... and its first visit to Europe under Gianandrea Noseda’s baton. Violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Seong ...

Paquito D’Rivera has been a major figure in the worlds of modern jazz, afro cuban jazz, big band jazz, world music, and even European classical music since well before he defected from Castro’s Cuba ...

During her talk, Ortiz lambasted the Eurocentrism she encountered within the field of classical music, which she said prioritized European classical traditions over the “very diverse ...

Owen Hatherley explores the neglected history of European music in Britain In fact, much of the British classical music establishment is an émigré product – in terms of its institutions and festivals, ...

The musical map stretching from America to Europe captures much of the American spirit and ... One of the greatest pioneers of classical music at large is none other than composer and pianist Amy ...