The Classics

For Stuart Holt, opera is awe-inspiring storytelling and, in many ways, the Olympian limb of the classical arts. Director of the school programs and community engagement departments of the Metropolitan ...

When Susan Woodard, professor emeritus of music, was just beginning her teaching career, she heard a colleague declare, ...

For fine arts painter George Ceffalio, the importance of classical realistic art is self-evident. "You see [realistic art] ...

Why the classics are important today is a radical question, according to John Henry Crosby, the founder and ...

Historian and educator Jason Goetz looks to the classics as a means for our culture to survive. As ...

The classics offer artists endless inspiration, says baritone Darren Chase.

Cassia Harvey has written more than 160 books for cello, viola, and violin. With a methodology that trains ...

People show up at an apartment, some strangers and some friends. At first there's the typical uncomfortable ice ...

Author, radio host, pianist, and arguably the nation's foremost expert on 20th-century pianists David Dubal had spent the morning practicing ...

Mandy Hallenius co-founded the DaVinci Initiative to help children gain realistic drawing and painting skills as well as ...

For Kern, the classics, especially literature, tap into this deep impulse to learn, to appreciate, and, at bottom, ...

Ballerina Ashley Tuttle sees classical ballet, like all the classic arts, as trying to get at truthful expression.

Accompanied by a pianist, 11 violinists in formal evening attire (only two of them men) stood across the stage ...

Cradling the violin under his chin, holding the bow just so, a 5-year-old violinist was rendering a lovely ...

For tenor Tom Jim Solon, who co-founded New York-based Canticum Scholare, early music is a miracle in many ...

Paul Jacobs, the only organist to ever win a Grammy, believes that the classics transform humanity's inevitable pain ...

Do we value self-control or indulgence? Do we value kindness and generosity or competitive self-interest? These are the ...

Actress Tracy Arnold describes how classic stories and the age-old medium of theater ease our loneliness.

Composer William Vollinger writes deeply humane works: Hearing his song for soprano and clarinet, "The Child in the ...

Pianist Maria Asteriadou believes that classical music can reach us emotionally, powerfully, and directly, such that it can ...

A sonnet by Betsy Hughes offers unmistakable relief; you can actually understand what you are reading. Words in ...

"The primary function of great art, that is classical art, is to convey the feelings, the deeper feelings ...

Costume designer Rachel Healy believes that the classic arts—ballet, classical music, theater, literature, and the fine arts—are a ...

Michael Scales believes classics are important because they share human experiences across time and make them come alive.

For director John Langs, both the universal themes of classic texts and the vehicle delivering the themes make ...

What artist Kevin Moore of Ani Art America finds valuable about classical art is that it inspires the ...

Theater of War founder Bryan Doerries has had plenty of confirmation that the classics retain their potent significance.