Everyday, contemporary composers are making their mark on the sonic palette of classical music. Throughout history, there have been incredible examples of music, artforms, and creative cultures forged ...

Dalia’s Mixtape (reviewed below by Graham Rickson) is a double-album of pieces by 10 composers, including some names I knew – Judith Weir, Anna Meredith, Caroline Shaw – and others I didn’t, such as ...

Seth Boustead is a composer, pianist, and arts manager. Raised by a single mother in Missouri and Arizona, Boustead studied composition at the University of Missouri, then moved to Chicago in 1995. In ...

It is time once again to give thanks to and for the rich, vital community of musicians and composers in Atlanta who are making post-classical or new classical or whatever label one chooses to identify ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bach, Beethoven and Brahms are brilliant, but there’s something to be said for more recent music by living composers. The ...

Classical music was popular—and productively evolving—for centuries. Why do we hate the modern stuff so much? And can that change? New Yorker music critic Alex Ross argues in The Guardian that it can; ...

I share many of Barton Swaim’s views on modern classical music, but he is wrong to lump Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” in with music he says no one wants (“Songs Without Listeners,” Bookshelf, ...

A tense scene unfolds in a blockbuster film, the mood heightened not by thundering sound effects, but by the precise, haunting notes of a solo violin. This marriage of classical artistry and modern ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

In recent years, classical music has been subject to speculations about its demise as jazz, hip-hop, EDM, and pop genres have grown in popularity. Concerns over diminishing audience numbers and ...