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In our modern, digital world, it’s more important than ever to share the wonders of classical music with children. “The nuance and musicality of real people playing real instruments will always be ...

PITTSFIELD -- While most 10-year-olds are into One Direction or Big Time Rush, the children at Morningside Community School idolize classical greats like Mozart and Shubert. Every afternoon for two ...

What is classical music’s place today? Will there still be an engaged audience for repertoires of the past centuries? The conductor, Leon Botstein, didn’t seem to hold high expectations for The ...

Kendrick Lamar at the MTV Video Music Awards in August 2017. (Danny Moloshok/Reuters) When the Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, few felt more genuinely surprising or groundbreaking than the ...

Rachel was a Visiting Fellow for Heritage’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and the Center for Education Policy. A classical liberal arts education broadens students’ horizons beyond the ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

Recent research highlights how classical music can enhance study performance, memory retention, and even social bonding. Studies show that works by composers like Chopin and Beethoven can activate ...

Every summer Budapest hosts Festival Academy Budapest, a pioneering event where classical luminaries and future stars share the stage ...

Remember "music appreciation"? Remember when you listened to "Carnival of the Animals" and made crayon drawings of what you heard? Remember the teacher who told you the first four notes of Beethoven's ...