With the facile ease of a lyceum lecturer, Evita Perón delved into the ancient authors. Never before had she displayed such erudition; never before had her followers heard quotes from the great batted ...

Javier Milei’s election to Argentina’s presidency seems nothing short of remarkable in a region where elections lurch between elevating nepotistic would-be dictators and outright socialist authorities ...

Classical musicians who have been publicly linked to disgraced opera star Plácido Domingo have been arrested in Argentina or are still wanted by police in connection to an alleged crime ring. The ...

From dedicated museums, historic houses and hometowns of famous composers, to the festivals that immortalise their music, we round up some of the best locations around the world that every classical ...

When Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, a classical music aficionado in Brooklyn, asked her Amazon Echo for some music recently, she had a specific request: the third movement of Beethoven’s “Emperor” ...

Few art forms on earth are more indebted to class privilege than Western classical music. For most of its history, it has relied on monarchs, aristocrats, and wealthy patrons even to exist. We have ...

A 16 year old teenage girl playing the violin. She is performing in a black dress. She is looking down at her instrument with a serious expression on her face, concentrating as she plays. Many of the ...

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, ...

The case against the music-streaming industry is as damning as ever. The leading services pay pittances to artists—usually, less than one cent per play. In a textbook demonstration of monopoly ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Especially during a pandemic, the graying of audiences has been seen as a sign of precariousness. But maybe these older listeners ...