Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Bound by long-standing customs, classical music sees a fresh perspective through Ruoyang Xiang’s exceptional piano skills and ...

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Breakdancing to Classical Music brings together two very different performance styles in a creative and visually captivating ...

I started playing classical music in a café and the reaction was incredible. Within moments, the atmosphere began to change as guests turned their attention toward the piano. Conversations became ...

The L.A. Phil adapted their regular programming for a youth audience at “Symphonies for Youth: Sensory Symphony,” a classical music performance for the children of the Los Angeles community. (Aden Max ...

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Ah, to dismiss classical music as elitist: it’s the cheapest trick in the book. Unfortunately, BBC broadcaster Clive Myrie—one of the BBC Proms’ presenters this summer—succumbed to this temptation.

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, ...

He sits squarely in front of us on the screen, a full-bodied man with a carefully trimmed white beard and a nearly bald head, his eyes looming behind dark-framed glasses—one eye glaring with cyclopean ...

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Here’s a familiar scene of a night at the symphony: a perfectly disciplined audience sitting in complete silence for more than two hours with nothing but music. There’s no food, no chit chat, no movie ...

The trope that “classical music is boring” often comes from those outside of the performance field. So, it might come as a surprise that this phrase was the title of a Wintersession workshop held on ...