Watch out – the film music boys (and girls) are coming for a concert hall near you. Next spring brings the first-ever Soundtrack Festival dedicated to Television and Games Music to London. Meanwhile, ...

Being a composer is a solitary gig, even in the best of times. And that feeling of isolation can be exacerbated for people of color working in classical music’s predominantly white spaces. But amid ...

• The UNC Symphony Orchestra and a Merge Records Supergroup Celebrate Philip Glass’s Connections with David Bowie and Brian Eno The sight of a composer in an ad for a product unrelated to music is ...

It's been a year since the shooting at Pulse, a gay night club in Orlando. 49 people were killed. It left Boulder composer Egemen Kesikli in shock. "It was horrifying," he says. "The first thing that ...

The American classical music vernacular would never be complete without the catalogs of great composers like William Grant Still, Florence Price, and George Walker. But even so, Black voices have been ...

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, ...

Since the appearance of jazz in the early 20th century, jazz and classical have mostly lived on opposite sides of town, separated by tracks that most listeners won’t cross. This has long remained the ...

Musician Lara Downes aims to highlight the work of composers like Harry T. Burleigh, photographed c. 1938. Granger Classical pianist Lara Downes knew she was onto something profound when audiences ...

Music commentator Miles Hoffman talks about the things some famous classical composers were not thankful for. Composers have also felt as though the world should be thankful for them. Over the years, ...

When thinking of classical music, thoughts often first turn to long dead composers. But new classical music is constantly being written — from Jacqueline Kennedy commissioning American composer ...

Summer is in the air and so are bugs. Rachel Martin talks to music commentator Miles Hoffman about famous works of classical music inspired by insects. Summer is in the air. So are the bugs. They're ...