NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in ...

A portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, a friend of the composer, painted during 1804-1805. Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770, and so it's little surprise that 250 years ...

Any string quartet approaching its fourth decade would be expected to boast a wide repertoire, yet the enormous span of composers the Alexander String Quartet has embraced is almost beyond belief. It ...

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

When composer and conductor Steve Hackman stepped on stage at Chicago’s Harris theatre, he might as well have been walking ...

At first glance, you might think Beethoven’s Wig 4 – Dance Along Symphonies CD ($11.99) is for parents who thought their babies would be geniuses if they were exposed to Mozart in utero. It’s actually ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Brahms, Wagner, even Sondheim: All have followed the great master in building their works from small bits of music. By Anthony ...

There will be a time when we’ll go to concerts again. We will buy our tickets, shuffle shoulder to shoulder down the aisle, and find our seats. The lights will dim, and the conductor will walk onto ...

Think some things are so beloved and essential to Western civilization they can’t be canceled? Think again. If there’s anything we should have learned from months of “mostly peaceful” Black Lives ...