Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Bound by long-standing customs, classical music sees a fresh perspective through Ruoyang Xiang’s exceptional piano skills and ...

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I was playing piano at the airport when something completely unexpected happened. A singer suddenly joined the performance, turning a simple musical moment into a beautiful live duet. Together, we ...

The L.A. Phil adapted their regular programming for a youth audience at “Symphonies for Youth: Sensory Symphony,” a classical music performance for the children of the Los Angeles community. (Aden Max ...

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, ...

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Ah, to dismiss classical music as elitist: it’s the cheapest trick in the book. Unfortunately, BBC broadcaster Clive Myrie—one of the BBC Proms’ presenters this summer—succumbed to this temptation.

The warm glow of dozens of candles illuminated the stairway leading to the Granada Theater, as guests dressed in classy attire or more casually clothed filled nearly every seat of the historic venue.

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 ...

Here’s a familiar scene of a night at the symphony: a perfectly disciplined audience sitting in complete silence for more than two hours with nothing but music. There’s no food, no chit chat, no movie ...

The trope that “classical music is boring” often comes from those outside of the performance field. So, it might come as a surprise that this phrase was the title of a Wintersession workshop held on ...