Tchaikovsky wasn’t the only composer to tackle Romeo and Juliet. He just wrote the version that lives rent-free in our collective memory. The Fantasy Overture delivers big drama and one of the most ...
Some people wonder what it would be like if some of the greatest geniuses in history came back to live in the modern world. This is the case with “ClassicaLoid,” a 2016 music anime focusing on the ...
Yet when it comes to that perennial Christmas favourite, Mozart’s ‘Sleigh Ride’, the words ‘pot and kettle’ spring to mind. A ...
George Walker, who for 45 years was the voice of classical music and a programming director at WFIU Public Radio, died Wednesday. Walker, 81, retired in 2022 after a diagnosis of frontotemporal ...
An initiative that brings classical music to schools is coming to Cumbria next month on its biggest tour yet. The Playground Proms initiative was created by the comedy string quartet, Graffiti ...