Taipei and Los Angeles-based Organic Media Group has picked up rights to U.S.-produced classical music documentary title “Crescendo” and will be launching it at the European Film Market, which ...

If the greatness of music is in its triple play of emotions, ideas, and sonic pleasure, the Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda, who died last week, at the age of ninety-one, holds a justified place in ...

Paul Smith is the co-artistic director of the group Blush Opera, which sometimes produces concerts and events featuring toy pianos. A child’s toy may seem like an unlikely candidate for the classical ...

I started playing piano when I was 5 years old. My piano teacher was a quiet man at the local church. On Sundays, he would accompany the choir, and throughout the week he would see student after ...

I grew up in very musical household. From the kitchen, my mother (a voice teacher) would sing. From the music room, my sister would practice classical violin–Bach or Tchaikovsky or Vivaldi. From the ...

It’s fair to say to say that such “Best-Of” lists are inherently daft if one clings too literally to the idea of “Best.” Still, I have been making “Best of the Year” lists for classical music since ...

Kyle Dacon is a first-year doctoral student at CU Boulder from Garland, Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in piano performance from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota and a master's degree ...

If you’re a person of a certain age, you might remember watching Tom and Jerry cartoons over and over again growing up. One of the best known shorts is The Cat Concerto, a wordless animated feature ...

Sept. 28-29: Hispanic Heritage Concert Celebration, featuring stellar guitar soloist Koh Kazama, flutist Carol Naveira-Nicholson and violinists Steffen Zeichner and Daniel Andai performing works by ...

Google has taken the idea of Rock Band and Guitar Hero and pushed it one step further, creating an intelligent controller that lets you improvise on the piano and makes it sound like you actually know ...