Classical

Ever since it opened 10 years ago, Barbès has had an upright piano next to the mantle in the back room: an old oak thing that, while perhaps not up

It's been more than three years since the Wordless Music Orchestra gave the U.S. premiere of Johnny Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver: a success well beyond most expectations for the Radiohead's guitarist.

What is a symphony, anyway?  That was the question posed last night by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, who were in town last night to close the inaugural Spring For Music

A thrilling – and free – recital last night at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, with Finnish composer and pianst Magnus Lindberg (the NY Phil's current composer-in-residence), violinist Jennifer Koh and cellist

On any given Saturday in night in New York, there are a surfeit of musical options to choose from: everything from arena-size rock and pop concerts, to clubs playing the

While most folks were swigging back Coronas and 'Ritas last Thursday for Cinco de Mayo, I was at Carnegie Hall for a celebration of a different sort: the 120th anniversary

St. Joesph's Cathedral, Buffalo, NY.

The Trinity Choir, performing the ancient rite of Tenebrae (including Allegri's Miserere), Trinity Church, 4/20/11.

Bucking the trend towards ever-younger music directors (see the LA Phil and the Philadelphia Orchestra), some may have considered the Chicago Symphony's choice of former Philly and La Scala maestro Riccardo Muti