There's something magical about theater—seeing a world being created and brought to life in front of your eyes, ...

NEW YORK—Early music is a bit like musical archaeology: uncovering dusty Bach scores forgotten on the shelves, unearthing tomes of ...

A decade ago, Norwegian classical trumpet soloist Tine Thing Helseth and three friends she'd met in school—all trumpet ...

Sound is an ephemeral, invisible—but vital—component to any space. It, too, is shaped by design. Finnish architect Juhani ...

Porcelain has a long history. The earliest wares—not quite in the form we know today—date back to 1600 B.C., ...

NEW YORK—Classical violinist and composer Michelle Ross works surrounded by paintings, as the only musician among a group ...

NEW YORK—Walking into the Renaissance-style McKim, Mead & White-designed Casa Italiana at Columbia University, one is treated to ...

NEW YORK—The French Romantic composer Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845–1924), though he achieved fame late in his career, was ...

The Baltic states have a strong tradition of singing and a spiritual culture that extend back through antiquity—two characteristics ...

NEW YORK—Welsh composer Karl Jenkins's music is considered by some to be too popular to be classical, and ...

Violinist Nicola Benedetti, who has sensitivity and intelligence in spades, is an influential advocate for classical music and music education.  She ...

For over 30 years, John Schaefer has been the go-to voice for many listeners in discovering the sounds ...

German musician Jörg Widmann says that for him, everything began with the clarinet. He started playing the clarinet ...

NEW YORK—One word comes up often when people discuss Venice, both past and present: peculiar. This city made ...

NEW YORK—"It's a really good time to be a string quartet fan," said cellist Andrew Yee. "It's just ...

NEW YORK—What do Shakespeare and Pushkin have in common?  Despite the fact that they were writing in places ...

American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers radiates inspiration. It's a result of her being ever-inspired by everything around her. ...

When the Tokyo Philharmonic performs compositions by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 12 and 13, the ...

As conductor Leonard Slatkin prepares to leave his music directorships at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Lyon Symphony ...

NEW YORK—The art of music in Kelly Hall-Tompkins's hands is everything it is meant to be—communication between humans, ...

NEW YORK—When conductor Andrew Litton walks out into the orchestra pit and sees the gold curtains go up, ...

Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton's career has seemed to kick off seamlessly, from winning a Metropolitan Opera competition almost immediately once ...

Since 1942, Benjamin Britten's three-part treble chorus work, "A Ceremony of Carols," has been a holiday staple. The 11-movement ...

Pianist Khatia Buniatishvili's introduction to music was natural and organic—"very easygoing," she says. She was born into a ...

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) is a testament to the power of music. Established in 1936, the orchestra ...

Soprano Joélle Harvey wants to do more to help people understand the value of the classics. Beyond giving ...

The mythical creatures, animals of folklore, and romanticized, extinct creatures immortalized by jewelry designer Temple St. Clair have ...