Is “The Yellow Tie,” starring John Malkovich as Sergiu Celibidache, a biopic or a hagiography?

Maria Kalesnikava (right) at a panel with Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska at the Beethovenfest Bonn on October 2 • Photo © Michael Staab Maria Kalesnikava, the ...

Of all the marginalized composers who’ve yet to receive the acclaim they deserve—and there are many—Florence Price is perhaps the one closest to getting her flowers.

A hedge fund multimillionaire turned composer. A businessman with apparent links to the Russian state. A cohort of superstar performers all too happy to look the other way. Inside classical music’s ...

The Friends' Meeting House, Brighton performance of “For Philip Guston,” with Helen Whitaker, Adam Swayne, and Adam Bushell All photos © Agata Urbaniak I had ...

When an organization restricts comments on its social media channels, it’s a sure-fire sign that something is not right. So it proved when the Northern Ballet closed comments on their season ...

Sam Taskinen recently celebrated the premiere of a new staging of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” playing the giant Fasolt, in Erfurt, Germany. Possessing a warm, sonorous bass-baritone, she has sung many ...

Only then can his creative genius begin redounding, as it should, to the glory of Black music history,” writes the musicologist Robert Stevenson in his 1982 article, “The First Black Published ...

In the spring of 2001, Suzanne Farrin auditioned for the Juilliard School’s prestigious composition program. The night after her audition, she says that Christopher Rouse, a faculty member at the time ...

Evan Johnson is a composer; he thinks about sound. But Evan Johnson is also the rare composer who thinks just as much about sight. It’s true that, to the ear, his music is often extremely affecting in ...

Wagner’s tetralogy is everywhere in Europe this season. But does the cycle lose its power when it’s omnipresent?

Four years ago, I put on a pair of chunky red headphones and was immediately plunged into an entirely new soundworld. Suddenly, everything was buzzing, clicking and pulsing—yet there was no cable ...