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Kris Serafin/Lucier changed the way we think about sound through monumental works like I Am Sitting in a Room and Music on a Long Thin Wire. -
Marty Reichenthal/Stephen Sondheim has died at 91. Pop Culture Happy Hour's Linda Holmes looks back on her favorite Sondheim tunes.
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From the mid-'50s to 1990, the drummer's band served as a finishing school for elite jazz musicians. Here are five of the distinguished alumni of Blakey's university of the streets, including Horace Silver, Terence Blanchard and Wayne Shorter. -
American symphonies have just begun a new season — but many musicians around the country have yet to play a single note on stage.
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The author of a newly reissued Robert Schumann biography presents a guide to the misunderstood composer's life and music.
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Over the past four decades, Benoit Rolland has made more than 1,400 bows for violins, violas and cellos.
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On his latest album, Avila, guitarist Ernest Ranglin enlists three younger musicians to make African- and Caribbean-inflected music that's built to last.
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The brilliant and rigorously built chamber symphonies by Vagn Holmboe have finally made it to disc. Love Nielsen? Give this other Danish composer a try.
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Conductor Marian Alsop muses on her mentor's most religious symphony, a work that raises more questions than it answers.
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One of today's hottest conductors talks about a piece that's integral to his musical life: Stravinsky's earthshaking Rite of Spring, which Dudamel insists has not lost its power to shock in the century since it was written.
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Monk Competition madness, Don Byron interviewed, professor Sam and hints of a Clark Terry film.
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Updates on the troubles in Chicago, Atlanta and Minnesota: from across the classical internet, all the news that's fit to link.
