This is Celia Hirschman with On the Beat for KCRW. On one Friday, like most Fridays, the crowded subway platform of our nation’s capital was in full swing at L'Enfant Plaza. Only this particular ...
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, ...
For years, classical music fans have been left behind in the streaming revolution. Finding particular works and recordings has been hit or miss on the major platforms, which were basically built to ...
Exclusive to the app, Listening Guide is a groundbreaking new feature that takes users inside a notable work of music as they listen, highlighting details and explaining a work in real time as it ...
After expanding to CarPlay a few months ago, Apple Music Classical has hit yet another new platform. Starting today, you can access Apple Music Classical on the web for the first time. In today’s ...
Apple has explained its reasoning behind separating out classical music into its own app, even as the service remains part of the overall Apple Music subscription. Apple Music Classical comes out of ...
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Why do we focus on the bad news stories about cuts and crises in classical music ? Musicians are doing incredible things to engage, support and sustain us; we should tell those stories too When did ...
Readers discuss ways to rescue the industry. To the Editor: Re “Stop Mutilating Classical Music to Sell It to Kids,” by Evan Shinners (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 23): Mr. Shinners’s essay makes an ...
Mr. Shinners is a pianist and harpsichordist and hosts the podcast “W.T.F. Bach.” Classical music has been in a crisis for decades. New generations don’t seem to care about it. The institutions that ...
Few art forms on earth are more indebted to class privilege than Western classical music. For most of its history, it has relied on monarchs, aristocrats, and wealthy patrons even to exist. We have ...