Classical music can be both timeless and intimately connected to the times we are living through today. As new music is written and old favorites reinterpreted, the music can connect the past to the ...

The most notable classical-music story here in 2021 merited national attention, thanks to the debut of the San Diego Symphony’s new $85 million year-round outdoor concert venue, The Rady Shell at ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Metropolitan Opera returned with its first work by a Black composer, the repertory slowly got richer, and other highlights of the year. By Anthony ...

In what most would agree was, at best, a bumpy and unpredictable year, San Diego’s classical-music scene not only prevailed but flourished. In fact, earlier this month Musical America Worldwide — the ...

Soundtrack labels continued to thrive in 2021, discovering old film scores worth preserving and expanding classics to meet the seemingly insatiable thirst for music written for screens large and small ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – No one could fairly say 2021 was a great year for classical music. Still, even with a pandemic in full swing, it could have been far, far worse. Musical life remained scaled-back in ...

Latonia Moore performs during a rehearsal of "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" at the Metropolitan Opera house, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in New York. (Jason DeCrow/AP) Baltimore Symphony Orchestra assistant ...

The opening lines of Franz Schubert's song "An die Musik," his love letter to music from 1817, speaks of personal troubles, of being "caught in life's unruly round," and how the power of music can ...

Best-of lists are always loaded, but summing up a year like 2021 feels particularly foolhardy. Ours was a year of formidable uncertainty (sick of that word yet?) and even more formidable decision ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Classics by Bach, Mozart and Brahms and new works by Andy Akiho, Angélica Negrón and Tyshawn Sorey were among our favorite recordings this year.

Here is a smattering of notable classical music released in 2021. Itzhak Perlman protégé, Randall Goosby, joined by fellow Youth Concert Artists bassist/composer Xavier Foley and pianist Zhu Wang, ...