Classical Newsletter

Pianist Jon Batiste has been busy. He's offering three new albums at once: one tribute to Mozart and two tributes to Thelonious Monk.

The New York-based string quartet's new album Rhythm Nation teems with beats ranging from West Africa and Venezuela to jazz standards and Janet Jackson.

America's darling diva pairs up with the banjo guru of our time for a set of old Appalachian songs about love, loss and the sturdy hope for better times.

The Central Ohio Symphony is pulling out the hits and putting on the whimsy in a concert expected to attract an audience of more than 1,000.

The rising young conductor's new album, Ukrainian Mixtape, is a introduction to composers even some Ukrainians don't know very well.

For 20 years, the Reaching Heights Summer Music Camp has offered students in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights school district a week of intensive music education.

The visa process for visiting artists has always been complicated and expensive. Under the current administration, it's gotten significantly worse.

There aren't a lot of well-known operas celebrating the richness of the Black American experience. The Black Opera Project from Cincinnati Opera is looking to change that.

Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in.

Pianist Lara Downes and Pulitzer-winning author Salamishah Tillet discuss Nina Simone and one of her best-known songs at her lovingly restored birthplace in Tryon, N.C.