Classical Music News
Listen Britain's Brass Bands: A Working-Class Tradition On The Wane
March 6, 2013 – A matter of civic pride since the 19th century, the U.K.'s coal-town brass bands are dying out.
Watch Remembering Van Cliburn, A Giant Among Pianists And A Cold War Idol KERA
February 27, 2013 – The Texan pianist who captured America when he conquered Moscow has died at 78. KERA
Read The Operatic Potential Of DSK, A Modern Don Giovanni
February 26, 2013 – Could Dominique Strauss-Kahn's fall from grace make a compelling opera?
Watch Remembering A Conductor Who Blossomed In Philadelphia
February 25, 2013 – A conductor formed in postwar Germany had a surprising late-life renaissance in the U.S.
Watch Music, The Food Of 'Amour'
February 23, 2013 – The Best Picture nominee about love at the end of life uses music sparingly but crushingly.
Read Can You Learn To Like Music You Hate?
February 15, 2013 – A new study says that when you don't understand music, you don't even really hear it.
Read Remembering American Conductor James DePreist
February 8, 2013 – The African-American conductor flourished at a time when few black men led major orchestras.
Listen From A Land Where Music Was Banned — To Carnegie Hall
February 3, 2013 – Young Afghans will be performing at some of the most prestigious venues in the U.S.
Read Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week
February 1, 2013 – The FAA changes its tune re instruments on planes and the passing of innovator Butch Morris.
Watch New Opera Gets Benefit Of The 'Doubt'
January 25, 2013 – After a Pulitzer, a Tony and several Oscar nods, Doubt returns to the stage, this time as an opera.
Listen Honoring 'Our Will To Live': The Lost Music Of The Holocaust
January 25, 2013 – An Italian musicologist is resurrecting works written in World War II camps.
Read Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week
January 25, 2013 – Anne Akiko Meyer's newest super-pricey fiddle and leadership changes from Munich to New York.
Read Back Off The Bach To Drive Safely
January 23, 2013 – A new study says that listening to classical music makes for unsafe driving.
Read Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week
January 18, 2013 – A new face for Houston, an acid attack on the Bolshoi Ballet chief and that nine-day tenure in NJ.
Listen Naxos: The Little Record Label That Could (And Did)
January 13, 2013 – In the past 25 years, Naxos has gone from an industry joke to a major force in classical music.
