Anne Midgette, chief classical music critic at The Washington Post, recently wrote an article that caught our attention called “A beginner's guide to enjoying classical music. No snobs allowed.” We ...

Matthew Aucoin. Photo by Steven Laxton. In our second annual Classical Classroom Summer Music Festival Series, we hit the (sound)waves at the Music Academy of the West in sunny Santa Barbara, ...

For nearly 300 episodes now, the “Classical Classroom” podcast has helped to bring classical music a little more down to earth. References to Lady Gaga, the Smiths and Tom Waits pepper host Dacia Clay ...

Twenty Fresno schoolteachers were learning last week how to integrate classical music into such core subjects as math, science and history, thanks to a new pilot music education program developed by ...

When Mexican flutist Jonathan Borja was in high school, he probably couldn’t have guessed how a visit from composer Arturo Márquez to his high school then would turn into a collaboration 20 years ...

Some 150 years ago, if you wanted to listen to music, you would have to perform it yourself or be in the presence of musicians. With Thomas Edison’s phonograph in 1877 came the ability to record music ...