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I had a favorite LP growing up. (An LP is a long-playing record. Some of you will have to ask your parents.) The Boston Courts and Chapels of Renaissance…

Jeanette Vecchione was a sharp-shooting point guard at Longwood High School in Long Island, New York, where she held the record for sinking three-point…

Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton has won the top prize in the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, which concluded last week in that city. Formed…

It's an age-old question..."If you could have a conversation with any composer, who would it be?" The answer, at least for Dmitri Shostakovich. Â Rather…

It's another evening under the stars as the ProMusica Summer Music Series continues at the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens this…

Commercials with classical music represented in them in some way are, more often than not, less than flattering. Â As New Yorker Magazine writer Alex Ross…

Danish composer Carl Nielsen spoke of the first movement of his Sinfonia espansiva as "a gust of energy and life-affirmation blown out into the wide…

Most soldiers tell stories of their time in the trenches. But one British World War I soldier let his violin do the talking. Sapper Ernest Johnson carved…

Camille Saint-Saens may have written the best-loved piece of classical music illustrating various members of the animal kingdom in his "zoological…

Sounds of the classical guitar can be heard in a variety of settings in music of Mozart, J.S. Bach, Issac Albeniz and Yann Tiersen on the next Fretworks…