Many who come here tonight may not know a lot about classical music, but that's part of the experiment. Soundbox is designed to appeal to people, many of them younger people, who never have attended ...

“Necroclassical”. Now, there’s a musical genre that I can safely say I’ve never heard before. In fact, it’s probably safe to say that it’s a new genre for many of you as well as it’s a term coined by ...

Two San Francisco Symphony performances are being digitally memorialized as a pair of live recordings are landing on the ...

When performers didn't acknowledge the applause, I kept thinking the clappers might get the hint. But they never did in the Beethoven, and interstitial applause finally petered out only halfway ...

For a space that’s associated with some of the most beautiful music that humankind has ever produced, the cacophony in the Fox Theater’s elegant concert hall is unusual. The atmosphere is, to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A classical ensemble commences a sleek symphony; strings, woodwind and brass sections entwine — then a storming ...

For a Russian composer, 1917 cannot have been an easy year to concentrate on work. There were strikes and anti-war marches that led, bit by bit, to the overthrow of the Czar. Food shortages in the big ...

Most would agree that Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996) was Denmark's greatest symphonist after Carl Nielsen and Rued Langgaard. So it's something of an occasion that the three chamber symphonies from the ...

Movement and some physical responses—including heart rate, breathing rate, and the electrical conductivity of skin (suggesting excitement)—may synchronize between audience members at classical ...