Colorado Music Festival is premiering several contemporary classic works. One of the pieces draws from the poems of Robert Frost and one of John F. Kenney's last speeches. The historic Chautauqua ...

It is time once again to give thanks to and for the rich, vital community of musicians and composers in Atlanta who are making post-classical or new classical or whatever label one chooses to identify ...

Variety’s the theme this spring, as San Diego County concerts explore the many exciting sides of classical music.

The 42-year-old, modern classical composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr. is a self-described “late-bloomer.” Now one of the brightest new lights on the modern classical scene, he studied music at the ...

Composers and musicians in the world of contemporary classical music have compared it to abstract art. In contrast to the flowing, musically descriptive melodies of the classical composers of past ...

Bach, Beethoven and Brahms are brilliant, but there’s something to be said for more recent music by living composers. The Johnstone Fund for New Music offers just that – bold new works by ...

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Luc Ferrari's Presque Rien No. 1 and Mauricio Kagel's Acustica are the latest to join Deutsche Grammophon’s Avantgarde Vinyl ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While female vocalists like Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande have a stronghold on modern holiday music playlists, pianist Chloe ...

Music history has a funny way of remembering the loud voices while quietly shelving the revolutionary ones. We celebrate Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach without question. Yet ask most people to name a ...

A critic unpacks the month-long program featuring 430 artists and presenting more than 70 pieces of music for the very first time, most by Illinois composers. Like a blue moon, a festival with a ...