Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford leads the American Classical Orchestra (ACO), New York City's foremost period instrument orchestra, in a program of much-loved Bach cantatas at the ...

Classical crossovers have taken Hollywood by storm. One of the musical entities leading the charge is Vitamin String Quartet, which returns to Northeast Ohio for a show on Oct. 24 at EJ Thomas Hall in ...

A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets are among the highlights.

Though based in Austin, the Young Eight’s members include Seattle violinist QUINTON I. MORRIS, the group’s founder, who has brought his fledgling, all-African-American string ensemble home to show off ...

Music of Remembrance launches the world premiere of oratorio “VEDEM,” Gerard Schwarz remembers Leonard Bernstein’s “Young People’s Concerts,” and Linda Tsatsanis and John Lenti say farewell to the ...

Erika Wilson, Monet Royal, Tai Davis and RaGeen Washington came together in 2023 to form Blck Bird Strings. Erika Wilson first picked up the violin thanks to her grandfather. He worked long nights as ...

After 82 years of teaching young people to perform classical music, one of the nation’s oldest youth orchestra programs is turning to big-band jazz. Justin Faulker, director and conductor of the new ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

Classical music is an odd beast in today’s world. Some important people think it’s very important. Chambers of commerce, for instance, see it as an essential recruiting tool: Many high-level ...